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Freedom Team - Then Gen. William Knudsen, center foreground in military uniform, led the U.S. war effort during World War II. To his left is Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Co., and to Ford’s left is Charles E. Sorensen, a vice president of Ford who oversaw the automaker’s defense contracts. The group was photographed in August 1942 at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti Township. The Danish film crew filming Knuden’s life story, opposite page, gathers at Willow Run Airport in front of a B-25D Mitchell bomber owned and operated by the Yankee Air Museum. // Courtesy of the Detroit Public Library

Genius of Production

Stephanie Surrugue likes to fly and enjoys, as she says, the “experiences that are not just, you know, the Boeing experience.” Her personal bests...
2021 Top Corporate Counsel

Top Corporate Counsel in Michigan 2022

Selected by private attorneys in metro Detroit via DBusiness’ Top Lawyers annual peer-to-peer survey.
slice and dice Ken Knife Co. in Southfield considers multiple factors in designing and crafting kitchen blades, including the point, edge, spine, heel, tip, scales, bolster, and handle fasteners. // Courtesy of Ken Knife Co.

Blade Runner

Ryder DelSignore was bartending and working as an expeditor in the kitchen at Bacco Ristorante in Southfield, which is owned by his father, Luciano,...
Comeback Story - As an accountant, Crysta Tyus found it difficult to drive revenue outside of the tax season until she learned to become an expert adviser. // Photo by Martin Vecchio

Tax Shelter

The road to success has been a roller coaster ride for Southfield’s Crysta Tyus. That ride also carried her to more than $1 million...
A New Day - Members of BasBlue, a new women's club in Detroit, cut the ribbon on the renovation of a historic mansion in the Midtown district near the Detroit Institute of Arts. The club opened last October. // Photos by Rosa María Zamarrón

A Lady’s Place

Clubs for women aren’t a new concept in Detroit; the Detroit Association of Women’s Clubs was organized in 1921 with eight clubs. It still...
Air conditioner units VRV (HVAC), big fan and a water cooler on a roof of new industrial building with blue sky and clouds in the background.

Peak Savings

At a time when energy costs are on the rise, the City of Dearborn is sitting in comfort due to a novel program that...
Detroit Sewn saw a dip in PPE orders during the pandemic when China released the ships containing them and large purchasers sided with those lower-price, disposable goods. // Courtesy of Detroit Sewn

Buy Local

Supply chain issues and labor shortages are affecting manufacturers of all sizes, but small businesses have another question to answer: How can they compete...
Catch-22

Catch-22

As the economy continues to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturers in Michigan and around the nation are booking new orders yet are struggling...
Courtesy of Phiston Technologies

PDA Q&A: The E-Interview, Marina Schloff

DB: Where are you? MS: In Miramar, Fla., to attend our ribbon-cutting ceremony to open Phiston Technologies’ new state-of-the-art R&D, engineering, design, and manufacturing facility. DB: What's...
Robot Showroom - Greg Sandler and Vince Mileto launched Dynamic Machine in 2001. The Troy headquarters includes multiple machines from global tooling giants. // Photographs by Josh Scott

Need for Speed

Twenty years ago, Greg Sandler was working in the local machine tooling sector when his employer cut sales commissions across the board. Rather than...

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