Business

United Peckham, an independent labor union formed by employees of Peckham, Inc., will hold the picket Friday, May 11 at 3 p.m. in front of Peckham Vocational Industries.

Fortune Magazine, along with Competitive Inner City (ICIC), this week released the ”2012 Inner City 100,” a list of the fastest-growing inner city companies in the U.S., and Motown’s own… Read more »

Movers for Moms, a program created by Two Men and a Truck, collects and distributes items to women’s shelters on Mother’s Day. The program, now in its fifth year, will… Read more »

If all goes as planned and the upcoming studies produce favorable results, a 150-megawatt wind farm built by Gamesa Energy USA on the county’s wastewater site could be producing energy… Read more »

“The subject is not an employee of Consumers Energy and is using a counterfeit Consumers Energy identification card,” the sheriff’s office states.

The execution of the lease gives Gamesa Energy USA, a subsidiary of a Spanish-based wind farm developer and wind turbine manufacturer, the exclusive rights to investigate the possibility of erecting… Read more »

In 1989, when Amway teamed up with Minneapolis-based investor Irwin Jacobs to acquire a 10.3 percent stake in Avon and then made a $2.1 million cash offer for all of… Read more »

“There’s a lot of uncertainty about what’s going to happen,” said Tracy Larsen, a corporate lawyer who specializes in corporate mergers and acquisitions. “But it’s not likely the uncertainty is… Read more »

About 470 people, mostly women, attended the luncheon at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park where Heartwell proclaimed that he is “not a virgin.”

Individuals who have appeared once on a reality TV show, sometimes reappear. Downs Industries of Lawton may be on the bubble.

Scherdel Sales is a German-based company that makes springs and other parts from automotive system suppliers. The company has potential new business that could again double the operations, economic developers… Read more »

Republicans amended the package to provide more reimbursement funds for municipalities and school districts.

Among other innovations, Tolle said a “breakthrough is imminent” on a vaccine being developed to combat the AIDS epidemic.

This year’s parade offers seven more new homes and six more “conceptual homes” that only can be viewed online than last year’s parade, said Emily Siebert, executive officer for the… Read more »

The deadline to vote is midnight eastern time on Sunday.

Local stylist Suzanne Huffman-Chamberlin has opened up a new downtown salon, Suzanne’s Organics, which offers a more natural approach to hair care.

The sold-out, invite-only, single-day annual event is part of a global set of independent conferences to create a national dialogue on a local level.