Corporate Detroit articles from May 1991

Corporate Detroit archives from May 1991

Buffaloing the public at McInerney Miller. (institutional food distributor) (company profile)
May 1, 1991... Buffaloing the public at McInerney Miller Elaine Forbes has a game plan for all of us. Forbes is the director of the new Wild Game Division at McInerney Miller Bros., a 150-year-old institutional food distribution company located in the Eastern...

On a quest for quality. (UMI president Joseph Fitzsimmons) (company profile)
May 1, 1991... On a quest for quality A few years ago, Joseph Fitzsimmons saw the light. The CEO and president of UMI was attending an executive quality seminar when struck by the glowing revelation: While UMI was a solid, well-regarded company, other firms...

Setting his sights on a healthy industry. (ex-Stroh president Roger Fridholm)
May 1, 1991... Setting his sights on a healthy industry Roger Fridholm, former president of the Stroh Cos., has his sights set on the health care information industry - companies that work with hospital or insurance information systems. Fridholm, 50, stepped...

Scenarios on the tax mess. (Michigan Single Business Tax hikes)
May 1, 1991... Scenarios on the Tax Mess After mid-April, most tax collectors probably nurture a secret, sadistic glee. But not State Treasurer Doug Roberts. At least not this year. His cash box normally bulges with millions in early Single Business Tax...

Climbing the ladder; not every construction firm has fallen into a slump. (Quadrants Construction Inc.; company profile) (Cover Story)
May 1, 1991... Climbing the Ladder Suppose for a moment that you are Bill Clark. You rise each day at 2:30 a.m., and you are at work by four. You are visiting one of your construction sites by five or six. You work seven days a week and get about five hours...

9 more high flyers. (Michigan's fastest growing companies)
May 1, 1991... 9 MORE HIGH FLYERS At first blush, Phil Borchard, vice president of FAB Consulting in Auburn Hills, may sound a trifle ambitious. "We teach people who use computers to design trains, planes and automobiles," he says. FAB Consulting...

Big pitch, tough sell: Detroit's ad agencies may know how to sell, but can they peddle a new idea - integrated marketing - that gives them all the marbles? (Detroit, Michigan)
May 1, 1991... Big Pitch, Tough Sell Dick O'Connor paces slowly in front of the window, cigar in hand, gazing at the view below like a general scrutinizing his troops. There, in nearly every direction, is a reminder of the client that brings in 50 percent of...

Measuring the Gilmour factor: can a "numbers man" make it to the top at Ford? (Allan Gilmour; Ford Motor Co.)
May 1, 1991... Measuring the Gilmour Factor Will the real Allan Gilmour please stand up? Is he the "bean counter," the brilliant Harvard grad with the degree in economics who has spent most of his career rearranging numbers for the Ford Motor Co.? Or...

The price of harassment: sexual harassment can cost a company a great deal - even when top management knows nothing about it.
May 1, 1991... The Price of Harassment For the past two and a half years, Susan has had a recurring nightmare that wakes her as many as three times a night. In her dream, she is running through an endless maze of streets surrounded by buildings that have all...

The way of the recycler: recycling will be a big part of doing business in the future. Some companies already know how to do it.
May 1, 1991... The Way of the Recycler Years ago, when Dick Hubler hired on at GM's AC Sparkplug factory in Flint, his first job was to sift through metal scraps to see what could be saved for resale or reuse. "We've been recycling here at the Flint East...

The paradox of greater Brighton: once-bucolic Brighton may be too attractive to stay small. (Brighton, Michigan)
May 1, 1991... The Paradox of Greater Brighton Consider Evan Mayday, a Brighton businessman and landlord, and his idyllic rural existence: He resides on a lake, drives three miles to work every day, and has known his fellow downtown merchants for years....

A development on ice? (hockey great Gordie Howe's Brighton, Michigan hockey complex)
May 1, 1991... A Development on Ice? Gordie Howe and his wife Colleen were not always associated with what is to become the $90 million Howe Centre in Brighton. In fact, the idea for a major sports complex there was born long before the Howes began...

Northwest passage. (Office Market - Novi/Brighton/Farmington Hills) (directory)
May 1, 1991... Northwest Passage The farsighted among metro Detroit real estate types look at areas bordering I-96 northwest of Detroit, and they seem to see new office complexes, commercial buildings and homes materializing before their eyes. But much of...

A plan to cope with comp claims. (Focus Management Group Ltd.)
May 1, 1991... A plan to cope with comp claims A severe back injury threatened to put one warehouse worker at a local beer distributor on sick leave for months. Faced with the double burden of a workers' compensation claim and the loss of valuable employee,...