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Byline: Kurt Nagl The Center for Automotive Research has parted ways with its CEO as the Ann Arbor-based nonprofit think tank faces operational sustainability concerns and questions about strategy going [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Advertising giant Publicis Groupe plans to shut down the Leo Burnett Detroit subsidiary and close its office in Troy after losing key business from General Motors Co. [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Reduced vehicle output by the Detroit 3 automakers and a slowdown of requests for bids for new programs has caused widespread revenue decreases for suppliers and anxiety [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl A Chinese supplier of Ford Motor Co. and Volvo engine exhaust manifolds is looking to invest $12 million and bring up to 100 jobs to Auburn Hills. [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl A massive $55 billion semiconductor project in Genesee County could be imperiled by newly elected township officials promising to block development of Michigan's marquee megasite. Jennifer Arrand [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Stellantis NV's legal fight with its suppliers has grown after the automaker sued a German parts maker over another pricing dispute. Stellantis is accusing Brose North America [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Fadwa Hammoud, Michigan's former chief deputy attorney general, was the first Arab American Muslim solicitor general in the country. Now as managing member at Miller Johnson, overseeing [...]

Byline: Jay Davis And Kurt Nagl A judge has thrown out a bankruptcy claim initiated by the co-owner of a popular local brewery amid an $8 million legal dispute between [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Huntington Place is on a hot streak when it comes to landing splashy industry events, and operators of the downtown Detroit convention center believe that could lead [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl A Livonia-based supplier of wheels for semitrucks and passenger cars has filed for bankruptcy with $486 million of debt as it seeks to exit an unprofitable General [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she is in talks with Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares about keeping the company's North American headquarters in Michigan as pressures mount on the [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl The swift ascent of Chinese electric vehicle makers and stark fall for Detroit automakers in the Far East have automotive suppliers in the West rethinking their business [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl General Motors Co. is planning to build a $145 million battery cell prototype center at its Global Technical Center campus in Warren. Construction is expected to start [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Eddie Hall III, 37 Partner and COO The Hall Automotive Group Eddie Hall III vowed that if he were to join the automotive dealership his father built, [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Alexandra Ford English, 36 Member, Board of Directors, Ford Motor Co. Alexandra Ford English's career prospects were aplenty, from retail executive to wrangler, but she ultimately chose [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Bruno Alejandro Olvera Diaz, 35 Director of Diversity Supplier DevelopmentStellantis NV Bruno Alejandro Olvera Diaz helped drive a record $9.3 billion in supplier diversity spend at Stellantis [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Chris Bommarito, 39 Owner and President Though it seemed like just the opposite at the time, receiving his first and only termination notice was the start of [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Plastics manufacturer Asahi Kasei America Inc. plans to close its New York City office and consolidate its headquarters to its Novi location. The company, which supplies automotive, [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl General Motors Co. and its supplier Piston Automotive are planning a hydrogen fuel cell manufacturing plant at the old State Fairgrounds site in Detroit. The project, in [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Michigan has awarded German automotive supplier Laepple Automotive U.S. Inc. a $3.5 million grant to help it establish a headquarters and factory in Detroit. The grant was [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl General Motors and supplier Piston Automotive are planning a hydrogen fuel cell manufacturing plant in Detroit. The project, in its beginning stages, would be GM's first standalone [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl and David Eggert Michigan officials are working to land a microchip project that could bring an up to $55 billion investment and 10,000 jobs to a Flint-area [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Livonia-based home products manufacturer Masco Corp. will sell its Kichler Lighting business to a private equity firm for a fraction of the price it paid for the [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl One of the world's largest Black-owned automotive suppliers was wrongfully stripped of its minority certification in an apparent bid to 'destroy' and 'steal' the company, a judge [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl The UAW is making significant gains in wages and benefits at automotive supplier factories, but the Shawn Fain-inspired labor negotiations have some executives on edge. Across supplier [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl One of the world's largest Black-owned automotive suppliers was wrongfully stripped of its minority certification in an apparent bid to 'destroy' and 'steal' the company, a judge [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Law firms, just like almost every organization, are a people business. And these days, business is hard. Attracting and retaining lawyers in a market of musical chairs [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Bridgewater Interiors LLC is planning to lay off 63 employees at its Detroit plant after Stellantis NV discontinues the Ram 1500 Classic. The seating supplier said it [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Automotive suppliers are slashing R&D and engineering budgets in response to intense cost pressures, but doing so could come at their own peril -- and that of [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Maddin Hauser Roth & Heller PC is filling out its new office with a group of attorneys hired away from Lipson Neilson in the latest round of [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Automotive suppliers are slashing R&D and engineering budgets in response to intense cost pressures, but doing so could come at their own peril -- and that of [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Novi-based Shyft Group is planning to deliver its first electric delivery vehicles by the end of the year in what would be a welcome milestone amid a [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Lineage Inc. shares rose following the largest initial public offering of the year, capping a two-day flurry of initial public offerings for Michigan companies. The Novi-based logistics [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Shinola Detroit is planning its first hotel outside of its home market as the watch and leather goods manufacturer looks to gin up licensing deals to grow [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl For the first time, Detroit's sprawling suburbs could be connected by bus routes stretching into communities historically off the transit grid -- but that will ultimately depend [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Mass transit has long been a challenge for the state that put the world on wheels, but for the first time in a long time there seems [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Michigan is slashing an incentives package to Ford Motor Co. by more than half after the automaker dramatically reduced the scope of its electric vehicle projects to [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl German mobility testing company DEKRA plans to invest $22.8 million to set up an automotive testing center in Plymouth, where it plans to create 18 jobs. DEKRA, [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Electric vehicle battery startup Our Next Energy has entered a strategic partnership with Foxconn to keep the financially struggling startup afloat. The Novi-based company recently told employees [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Will McCoy, the 41-year-old founder and CEO of Vehya, aimed to plug into the automotive electrification boom by launching a business built around EV charger installations at [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl and Carly Schaffner Piston Group founder and Chairman Vinnie Johnson is handing over the CEO reins at the automotive supplier to a former Honda executive. Mamadou Diallo, [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Varnum LLP has acquired Farmington Hills-based Young, Garcia & Quadrozzi, bringing more trial expertise to its growing Birmingham office. Through the deal, Grand Rapids-based Varnum brings aboard [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl and Carly Schaffner Piston Group Chairman Vinnie Johnson is handing over the CEO reins at the automotive supplier to a former Honda executive. Mamadou Diallo, 49, will [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Michigan golf fanatics will soon have a new outlet as the state's first PGA Tour Superstore gears up to open in Novi. The store at 21061 Haggerty [...]

Byline: Andy Balaskovitz, David Eggert, Anna Fifelski, Kurt Nagl and Nick Manes The 2024 Mackinac Policy Conference is in the books. The Detroit Regional Chamber's annual gathering of 1,500 business [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. are altering the blueprints for massive electric vehicle factories in Michigan amid rapid change in the industry, from engineering and [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl The Michigan Strategic Fund board on May 21 approved a $250 million grant to prepare a megasite near Flint for a major manufacturing project. The board voted [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Convergix Automation Solutions is planning to expand with a new Auburn Hills headquarters in a space abandoned by an automotive plastics and foam supplier in bankruptcy. The [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Electric vehicle battery startup Our Next Energy Inc. hired a Chicago-based financial consultant specializing in distressed businesses in its quest to rebound from a failed Series C [...]

Byline: Kurt Nagl Hydrogen, battery and clean energy startup projects touted as key to a U.S. manufacturing resurgence are facing a big challenge: finding backers beyond the government to get [...]