Norman Sinclair

A fire last year at the Capital Grille on the north side of the Somerset Collection in Troy, which closed the restaurant for nearly a year until it reopened in June, is proving to...

One of the oldest companies in Michigan and the United States grew out of a couple’s frustration with cleaning sawdust and straw trapped in the carpeting on the floors of their crockery and china...

After enduring a 15-year purgatory in Grand Traverse County, the High Pointe Golf Club — once one of the state’s most iconic golf attractions — is experiencing an unlikely revival.Things got so bad at...

In more than a century of selling home goods in metro Detroit, Gardner White Furniture Co. in Warren has racked up a number of firsts in the industry: the first retailer to provide free...

Unlike many inventors whose patents never earn them lasting fame or fortune, Robert Pauli Scherer revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry in the 1930s with his rotary die encapsulation machine that manufactured soft gelatin capsules for...

For more than 400 professional golfers around the world, the confidence they need to make that one crucial putt to win a tournament and millions of dollars in prize money comes from a pastoral...

For thousands of years, ever since bread was first made in the Middle East, bakers from the Stone Age up through the 19th century have been fascinated with inventing different ways to serve what...

As the holder of several dozen patents for inventions that helped the Ideal Group of companies reach nearly $500 million in revenue in 2022, Frank Venegas Jr. credits two simple rules for his success. “I...

Despite a $100 million loss suffered by a Canadian company in its decades-long efforts to open a gold mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a Denver-based mining group is taking on the challenge of tapping...

The world’s largest privately-owned resort company began as a startup in 1947 in northern Michigan’s Charlevoix County when the owner of 40 acres of scrubland with a modest hill sold the parcel he said...