BATTLE CREEK - The Corn Marketing Program of Michigan, Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee and Michigan Wheat Program are collaborating on a new event for crop farmers in the Great Lakes Region, called the Great Lakes Crop Summit, scheduled for Jan. 22-24, 2014, at FireKeepers Hotel and Casino. The inaugural summit for crop farmers will feature
PETOSKEY - Verizon Wireless' Petoskey store is one of 100 in the nation and the second Smart Store in Michigan to open this year. The company unveiled its first ?Destination Store? Tuesday at The Mall of America in Minnesota. The initiative, combined with the redesign of 1,700 company-owned retail stores during the next few years
WASHINGTON DC ? Of the 60,000 new jobs create in the tech industry in the United States this year, some 60 percent of the positions went to women, reported job site Dice.Com. "Companies have been focusing on getting more women into technology for a long time," Shravan Goli, said president of Dice. "This year those
TROY - Association for Corporate Growth Detroit Chapter will host its eighth annual Mingle Bells fund raiser Dec. 3 at the Troy Marriott Hotel. This holiday event that has raised more than $23,000 for non profits in Metro Detroit. The recipient of this year's Mingle Bells fund raising will be Common Ground (www. commongroundhelps.org), an
ANN ARBOR- Steady job growth over the next two years will bring Michigan back to job levels posted just prior to the 2008-09 Great Recession and nearly halfway back to mid-2000 levels, say University of Michigan economists. In their annual November forecast of the Michigan economy, George Fulton and colleagues Joan Crary and Donald Grimes
ANN ARBOR - A survey showed U.S. consumers continue to have little faith in the federal government, and various fiscal crises, including debates about the debt ceiling, the fiscal cliff and the partial government shutdown, do not help, causing consumers to remain grim in their economic outlooks. Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters, University
LANSING - The Office of Regulatory Reinvention within the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs announced Thursday it had eliminated more than 1,500 state rules and implemented more than 100 recommendations. The ORR has reviewed more than 19,000 rules and collected nearly 35,000 pages of non-rule regulatory actions. To date, it has rescinded 1,950 "unnecessary,
DETROIT - Compuware Corp. added two new board members Thursday. Joining the board were Jeffrey J. Clarke, managing partner at Augusta Columbia Capital Inc., a New York City-based tech-focused private equity firm, and Jennifer J. Raab, president of Hunter College, the largest college in the City University of New York system. Leaving the board are
MATTAWAN ? William Parfet, MPI Research Chairman and CEO, has been inducted into the Financial Executives International Hall of Fame. Parfet founded MPI Research in 1995 and, under his leadership, the company has become one of the top CROs in the world. He has also held executive positions at Richard-Allan Medical and The Upjohn Company
DETROIT ? Offered through AT&T, FiLIP and Amber Alert GPS are portable smart locator and communication devices that provide the answer to a question parents have been asking themselves for years: how can I give my child the freedom to be a kid, but still make sure they are safe? Amber Alert GPS is the