ANN ARBOR - Toyota announced it is planning another expansion of its Southeast Michigan R&D campuses, with a total investment of $126 million in Ann Arbor and York Township. This marks the third time in just over a year that Toyota has announced plans to increase employment and investment in Michigan. Toyota will expand its
WHITMORE LAKE - RheTech has reached an agreement to be acquired by HEXPOL, a Swedish-based polymers group. The acquisition is expected to be completed in early 2015 after regulatory approvals. Terms were not disclosed. ?This is excellent news for RheTech,? said John Levinson, president and chief executive officer. HEXPOL is already a leading worldwide compounder
ANN ARBOR - Consumer confidence reached its most favorable level in the December 2014 survey since the last cyclical peak was set in January 2007, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research since 1946, the Surveys monitor consumer attitudes and expectations. The gains over
LANSING ? Michigan Public Service Commission Chair John Quackenbush is targeting 2015 as the right year for the state to update its energy policy last overhauled in 2008, he told Gongwer News Service in an interview, with the intent being to, ideally, set a path beginning in 2016. In 2008, the state passed and then-Governor
LANSING - House Minority Leader Tim Greimel said on Tuesday the ballot proposal to amend the Constitution and raise the sales tax rate by one penny has a "decent shot" at passing, but certainly is not a "sure thing." The transportation package passed by the Legislature last week is contingent on the voters approving the
LANSING - Though the numbers are close on both questions, voters appear to like Governor Rick Snyder, but are split on the job he is doing, an EPIC/MRA poll released Tuesday showed. But the poll showed an overwhelming majority see the state improving. Snyder garnered a 52 percent to 40 percent favorability rating, but 50
DETROIT - Mike Finney says his new position in Gov. Rick Snyder?s office as senior adviser for economic growth is the best possible outcome for his search for what to do after stepping down as president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp. In a story in Crain?s Detroit, Finney said he had decided
SOUTHFIELD - We are buried with hype about the Internet of Things, Machine to Machine, cloud and big data. Find out what the future holds as we continue to see more devices capturing, collecting, and reporting data somewhere, somehow, and to someone. How will you be impacted? What should you know and care about, and
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio, the state?s life sciences trade association, has posted two new jobs on its board, both would take the successful applicants to the Middle East. Biomedical Equipment Technician CHSi Middle East - Bagdad, Iraq The Biomedical Equipment Technician reports to and is supervised by the MSSI Program Manager or a designated Project
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