Tim Keenan
Tim Keenan is managing editor of DBusiness magazine, DBusiness Daily News, Tech and Mobility News, Detroit 500, and Michigan Makers. Prior to joining DBusiness, he was a senior account executive at Campbell Marketing & Communications in Dearborn, working with the Motorcraft-Quick Lane racing teams in NASCAR and the NHRA. In other positions, he executed public relations and marketing strategies for several Tier One automotive suppliers. His journalism credits include The Football News-Basketball Weekly in Detroit, The Hardwood News in Lansing, Monday Morning Newspapers in Warren, and Ward’s Communications in Southfield. While at Ward’s, Mr. Keenan was part of a team that won the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award in 1995. In late 2020, he published “Everybody Loves Mickey,” a biography of retired professional wrestler “Irish” Mickey Doyle. Mr. Keenan also is chairman of the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame at the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo and is a volunteer for the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in Daytona Beach, Fla. He is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University.
Local PR Veteran DeVilling Launches WestShore Public Relations
Mike DeVilling, a 30-year public relations veteran, has launched WestShore Public Relations, a Detroit-based media relations and social media marketing firm.The firm will provide consulting services to organizations in the automotive, real estate, energy,...
Pontiac’s United Wholesale Mortgage Breaks Mortgage Industry Record with $107B in 2019
United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) of Pontiac today reports that it set a company record of $107.7 billion in mortgage loan volume in 2019, more than doubling its 2018 production of $41.5 billion.That performance, according...
C3 Industries Opens Webberville Cannabis Cultivation, Manufacturing Facility, Part of $20M Investment in Michigan
Ann Arbor-based cannabis producer and retailer C3 Industries (C3) has completed ground-up construction of a new indoor cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facility in Webberville, near Lansing. The facility began operating in November and is...
Overall Ford Sales Dip 3% in 2019, Truck Sales Up 9.1%
Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn today reported that its overall vehicle sales in 2019 dropped 3 percent to 2.3 million units compared to 2018 numbers, but its truck sales increased 9.1 percent from 1.1...
Detroit’s Little Caesars Pizza Launches ‘Affordable’ Home Delivery Service
Little Caesars Pizza, headquartered in Detroit, is starting 2020 by offering home delivery for the first time in its 60-year history.Available only via the Little Caesars app or website, customers order, pre-pay, and then...
Economic Uncertainty
Foreign trade wars, national elections, impeachment inquiries, sliding auto sales, and UAW/GM strike aftershocks could slow the state’s economic progress in 2020.
Detroit’s Quicken Loans, Nexsys Technologies Perform Michigan’s First Remote Online Mortgage Closing
Detroit’s Quicken Loans, using the Clear Sign eClosing platform from Detroit FinTech company Nexsys Technologies, has become the first mortgage lender in Michigan to complete the mortgage process using remote online notarization, known as...
GM Offers Next-generation SiriusXM on Nearly 1M Vehicles
General Motors Co. in Detroit is offering the next generation of automotive infotainment — SiriusXM with 360L — to nearly 1 million 2020 Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac vehicle buyers.The new platform and easy-to-use...
U-M’s Space Physics Research Laboratory to Test Orbion’s Plasma Thrusters
The University of Michigan’s Space Physics Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor is working with Houghton’s Orbion Space Technology to build and test the first flight units of the electrical power processor used to drive...
Northville’s AISIN Group to Unveil Autonomous Concept Vehicle at CES 2020
Northville-based automotive supplier AISIN Group is unveiling its i-mobility Type-C20 autonomous vehicle this week at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. The vehicle is equipped with technologies from three of the company’s focus areas: connectivity,...
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