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Byline: Rachelle Damico Companies such as Gardner White, Carhartt and Meijer have been family-owned and -operated for generations. Yet, passing a company down to the next generation isn't always a [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico After nearly 80 years in business, Haviland Enterprises Inc. transitioned its family-owned company to a 100-percent employee-owned business using an employee stock ownership plan. Divvying up a [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Jai Reddy Founder and CEO, LifeLab Kids Jai Reddy became frustrated with the lack of therapeutic services for his son, Arjun, who had been diagnosed with autism [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico George A. Mashour Anesthesiology Department Chair, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan George Mashour has taken an active role in ensuring that anesthetics are safe not only [...]

Byline: RACHELLE DAMICO Fans of the fictional HBO drama 'Succession' have likely watched the relentless struggles between company founder Logan Roy and his children, who want control of the family's [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Family businesses aren't just mom-and-pop stores that keep the lights burning. According to Family Enterprise USA, the 5.5 million family businesses in the United States employ about [...]

Byline: RACHELLE DAMICO AND SONYA D. HILL 1. ROCKET COMPANIES INC. Detroit FinTech platform company consisting of personal finance and consumer technology brands Financial services 2021 revenue: $12.91 billion 2018 [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico WINNER: EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT Nichole Roumayah Shaya, Senior Manager, Human Resources, RouteOne Nichole Roumayah Shaya, senior manager of human resources at RouteOne LLC, increased employee engagement by improving [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico WINNER: DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION DTE Energy Co. DTE Energy Co. redesigned steps in recruiting to further diversify its talent pool. During a workforce review in 2019, the [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico WINNER: FINDING AND GROWING TALENT Tivoli Fountain, Director of People and Human Resources, AutoPets Tivoli Fountain has grown AutoPets' employee base by more than 300 percent, an [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico WINNER: MANAGING CHANGE Barton Malow Barton Malow's HR team helped transition its employees from one entity to an entire family of companies. Barton Malow started as a [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico WINNER: FINDING AND GROWING TALENT Shyft Group Inc. The Shyft Group Inc. rolled out a number of fresh tactics to recruit and onboard 1,000 employees last year. [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico WINNER: OVERALL EXCELLENCE Trinity Health Michigan COVID-19 created a massive juggling act for Trinity Health Michigan's HR team. The pandemic magnified the need to support colleagues, reduce [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico When Tanya Saldivar-Ali's husband was getting ready to be deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 for active military duty, she committed herself to growing their business. 'I had [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico and Sonya Hill Growth isn't the bottom line in business, but it's one of the routes to get to that bottom line. Companies chase growth for a [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Nailah Ellis-Brown is the founder and CEO of Ellis Infinity LLC. The company, which does business as Ellis Island Tea, produces natural Jamaican hibiscus bottled tea. Ellis-Brown [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Lisa Lunsford is the CEO, co-founder and majority owner of Livonia-based Global Strategic Supply Solutions LLC (GS3), a tier-one supplier to major OEMs, which also specializes in [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Angela Vincent, owner and manager of Detroit bar Liv Resto-Lounge LLC, which does business as MIX Bricktown, hired an accountant this September in order to manage growth [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Neetu Seth, president and CEO of NITS Solutions Inc., hired two CPAs to manage cash flow for the company's local and overseas operations. 'I wanted to make [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Lisa Lunsford, co-founder and CEO of Global Strategic Supply Solutions LLC, said forming a strategic plan was necessary for the company to manage its growth. 'It was [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico How do you know whether to dole out work internally, or hire an outside company? Jane Owen, president of Vistage Michigan, a peer-to-peer business coaching organization in [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Kary Moss Executive director, American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, Detroit Career ladder: Moss received her master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University in 1980 and [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Eric Ersher, founder and CEO of Southfield-based Zoup, relies on department heads to let the company know when a new management hire is needed. The national soup [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Bob Kittle, president of Auburn Hills-based Munetrix LLC, knew it was time to hire an office manager when his bookkeeper was unable to take on any additional [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico At the end of last year, ChemicoMays LLC President and CEO Leon Richardson told Crain's it was too early to jump to conclusions on the Affordable Care [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Peter Roth is a partner at Grand Rapids-based law firm Varnum LLP who works out of the firm's Novi and Detroit offices. As a merger and acquisitions [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Before selling to a private equity firm, Mopec Inc. co-owner Rick Bell made sure he did his homework first. 'There are so many private equity groups out [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Van Nguyen, 31 Executive director, Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce, Troy BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: Reaching and exceeding the chamber's annual fundraising goals while also growing membership. CURRENT [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Royce Neubauer, 39 Founder, president and CEO, Service First Logistics Inc., Auburn Hills BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: Growing his startup to $27 million in just four years. CURRENT GOAL: [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Larry Brinker Jr., 36 President, L.S. Brinker Co., Detroit BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: Increased profits by 20 percent during his first year as president after taking over the family [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Elizabeth Hammond, 35 President, Contract Direct LLC, Southfield BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: Increasing Contract Direct's revenue from $100,000 to $23 million in 13 years. CURRENT GOAL: Raise revenue by [...]

Byline: Rachelle Damico Lilly Epstein Stotland, 37 Co-owner, general manager of business development, Vesco Oil Corp., Southfield BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: Expanding the company's geographical reach and revenue through acquisitions. CURRENT GOAL: [...]