Norman Sinclair
Insurer of Record
H.W. Kaufman Group
PROFILE: Offers brokerage, distribution, and underwriting insurance
GROUP CHAIRMAN AND CEO: Alan Jay Kaufman
HEADQUARTERS: Farmington Hills
FOUNDED: 1969
EMPLOYEES: 2,000
REVENUE: $3.6B
SUBSIDIARIES: Burns & Wilcox, RB...
Brain Power
A one-time math major at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Alexa Irene Canady wound up graduating with a bachelor’s degree in zoology...
Foundational Support
In a nod to the visionary leaders of Michigan’s historic industrial and manufacturing past, many private foundations established decades ago continue to make a...
Gloss Finish
As a teenager growing up in Oak Park, Ronald B. Lipson developed a passion for repairing wrecked vehicles. He was especially drawn to repainting...
Born Inventor
Of the 161 patents credited to pioneering automobile industrialist Henry Ford, a mostly forgotten and quirky one issued to him on Jan. 13, 1942,...
Delay, Deny, Defend
The gruesome deaths of two unarmed young men fleeing police on foot in the Grand Rapids area in April 2024 — one was pinned...
Cereal Brothers
The history of corn flakes, the cereal that dramatically changed breakfast habits in America and worldwide, began when two brothers in Battle Creek accidentally...
Rocket Man
One of John T. Parsons’ earliest memories was using a file on a piece of iron when he was 3 years old. It was...
Patents And Inventions: Mix of Fate
A lunch date with a schoolmate, arranged by twin brothers Howard and Dudley Holmes at their Chelsea home in April 1930, provided the catalyst...
Patents and Inventions
Using the fortune his invention generated through The Upjohn Co., which he founded with his three brothers, W.E., as he was known, created an...
