Business Detroit articles from November 1990

Business Detroit archives from November 1990

Polluters pay. (Update)
November 1, 1990... Landmark environmental legislation which sailed through the House and Senate during the fall session requires businesses to pay for cleaning polluted sites they create. The "polluters-pay" bills are projected to shift nearly $7 billion of the...

Auto insurance. (Update)
November 1, 1990... Auto insurance rates may be addressed by the Legislature during the "lame duck" session in November and December. The House Insurance Committee, chaired by Rep. Mary Brown, D-Kalamazoo, wants to hold joint discussions with representatives from...

Property tax cut. (Update)
November 1, 1990... The state Senate didn't act on an initiative to cut property taxes by 20 percent in the fall session. Richard Headlee, chairman of Taxpayers United, in September turned in 223,000 petition signatures to the Secretary of State Elections Bureau...

Strategy research used to back ideas like fahrvergnugen. (Kenneth Campbell III; DDB Needham Worldwide Advertising) (Frontrunners)
November 1, 1990... Walk into Kenneth Campbell III's office, and you know instantly that it belongs to a meticulous man. Clutter is nowhere to be found. His paperwork is organized into perfectly aligned stacks, all equidistant from each other and from the edges...

Fed board head takes financial pulse. (United States. Federal Reserve Bank of Detroit; Phyllis Peters) (Frontrunners)
November 1, 1990... Back in 1947, Phyllis Peters left New Hampton, Iowa, and her family's expectations that a woman's place was in the home. She was an ambitious 17-year-old, determined to pursue an accounting career, beginning with an undergraduate degree at the...

Hoffman named Business Detroit Magazine editor. (Gary Hoffman) (Frontrunners)
November 1, 1990... Gary Hoffman, 41, has assumed the duties of editor for Business Detroit Magazine beginning with its December issue. He is based in the magazine's Southfield office. Since 1987, Hoffman was director of communications for Sandy Corp. in...

Pumping up the profits. (marketing strategy of the Detroit Piston's front office; includes related articles on NBA team owners and on William Davidson) (Cover Story)
November 1, 1990... The Palace of Auburn Hills is a sleep place in the morning. Only the drone or occasional clatter of maintenance crews breaks the silence, no more than a gnat-like annoyance to a slumbering giant. The Palace, home to the champion Detroit...

Young lions: the auto industry's new generation is here.
November 1, 1990... He was a brash, 26 year-old lieutenant junior grade getting ready to fight the Good War when he got a higher calling. The family business was falling apart, and so, in July 1943, the Navy sent Henry Ford II home to fix things up. In a...

Regrouping at 243. (Group 243 Inc.)
November 1, 1990... If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. Group 243 Inc.'s problem was that while it looked like a duck, and sounded like a duck, it thought it was a swan. After a generation of being an agency that primarily serviced...

Personal secretary. (Campbell Services Inc.) (Made in Michigan)
November 1, 1990... On Time, a lifetime personal computer calendar and to-do list manager created by Campbell Services in Southfield, is a new and simplified approach to time and task control. On Time's day planner screen navigates between the user's appointments...

It's a dirty job. (Millgard Environmental Corp.) (Made in Michigan)
November 1, 1990... Millgard Environmental Corp. of Livonia has announced its development of a new system for hazardous waste cleanup. The company says the system, dubbed "MecTool," is capable of four times the productivity of conventional systems employed in...

In the rinse. (bio pure) (Made in Michigan)
November 1, 1990... A Birmingham-based company has gotten involved, retail-wise, in the country's newly rekindled interest in ecological matters. "bio pure" shampous and conditioners, a new line of environmental friendly hair care products, are being marketed...

Finger painting. (Clawson Tank Co.) (Made in Michigan)
November 1, 1990... Sta-Brite stainless and aluminum Jumbo-Bins, manufactured by Clawson Tank Co. in Clarkston, were developed especially for use in the paint and ink industry as shipping and storage containers. The Sta-Brite bins have a special mirror-like...

White on white. (Richard F. Nadeau Co.) (Made in Michigan)
November 1, 1990... Talk about your coordinated weddings: Are you in search of just the perfect bridal make up purse, or the ballpoint pen attached to a large white plume, or a lace Bible cover? Look no farther than Wayne, where the Richard F. Nadeau Co. has...

Tresaire - also known as date bait. (Masco Industries Inc. C and C) (Made in Michigan)
November 1, 1990... A convertible whose top can be lowered at 65 mph? The C&C Skylite Convertible Hardtop System provides the first convertible top that can be opened and closd at highway speeds. Showcased on the "Trasaire," C&C's concept vehicle, this...

Can Detroit CBD survive the next recession? (Detroit, Michigan central business district) (Properties)
November 1, 1990... Daily, it seems, there are reports out of government offices or in the Wall Street Journal that a recession, if not already here, is approaching rapidly. * Oil prices exceed $40 a barrel. * Forecasters say winter will hit early and...

Caraco Pharmaceutical plans new Detroit plant. (Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd.) (Properties)
November 1, 1990... Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. has unveiled plans for a new $10 million pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in northwest Detroit's Research Park, near the Lodge Freeway and West Grand Boulevard. BEI Associates of Detroit will design...

Birchwood mall comes to Port Huron. (Port Huron, Michigan) (Properties)
November 1, 1990... An 820,00-square-foot enclosed shopping center opened last month in Port Huron. Located on M-25 and Keewahdin Road, Birchwood Mall is set on a 77-acre site and has retail space for 120 merchants. The mall has four strong anchors: A...

Ford to expand research laboratories. (Ford Motor Co.) (Properties)
November 1, 1990... Ford Motor Co. will spend $97 million during the next four years to expand and renovate its Scientific Research Laboratories, located in the Research and Engineering Center in Dearborn. A 125,000-square-foot addition will provide space for...

Ron Kruman. (People)
November 1, 1990... Ron Kruman was appointed president of MGA, a full service advertising agency located in West Bloomfield.

Rogala flies high at Flagship. (Judith Rogala; Flagship Express) (People)
November 1, 1990... A woman who has spent virtually her entire career in the aviation industry has been named president and chief executive office at Flagship Express in Ypsilanti. Judith Rogala, former senior vice president at Federal Express, joined Flagship...

Daniel Williams. (People)
November 1, 1990... Daniel Williams was promoted to president of New Welduction Corp. in Livonia.

William Oberlin. (People)
November 1, 1990... William Oberlin was appointed chief operating officer of ALC Communications Corp. in Birmingham.

Woods Proctor. (People)
November 1, 1990... Woods Proctor was promoted to chairman of the board of directors.

Thomas Proctor. (People)
November 1, 1990... Thomas Proctor was named president and chief executive officer.

William Samenko. (People)
November 1, 1990... William Samenko was named president of Meteor Photo Co. in Troy and Atlanta, Ga.

William Ashe. (People)
November 1, 1990... William Ashe was named president and chief operating officer Kendall Delahanty

Detroit at work. (Marie Jackson-Randolph's Sleepy Hollow Child Care Centers)
November 1, 1990... Dr. Marie Jackson-Randolph's Sleepy Hollow Child Care Centers were born of necessity. As a single parent, student and working three jobs, Randolph was desperate for a child care facility that could cater to her busy schedule. In 1975,...