Mazda will announce its plans for the joint venture manufacturing facility that is shares with Ford Motor Co. by mid-year, its CFO said Friday in Japan. The result may be pulling out of the factory, according to a report on Freep.com.
For local retailers, the Internet can be a blessing or a curse during the holiday season. It can rob sales as shoppers scour online for the lowest price. But it can be a boon, by connecting retailers with customers outside of economically distressed Michigan and enticing customers to come into ...
Ann Arbor's largest regional mall will mark this year's Black Friday with more anchor stores planning to open earlier than ever before. Briarwood Mall is following the lead of many malls and "big box" retailers across the U.S. by setting early opening hours to attract more shoppers in a year ...
Lon Horwedel | Ann Arbor.comVan Boven Shoes has been around as a business in Ann Arbor since 1933. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s old-fashioned. In an age when the recession and online shoe retailers like Zappos have eaten into its bottom line, the retailer has introduced a text-messaging option to drum ...
The biggest annual fundraiser for the Salvation Army of Washtenaw County is getting a high-tech boost this year: Credit card machines. When the annual kettle drive starts Friday, four of the traditional donation pots will be manned by bellringers equipped with credit card machines to accept donations. The local Salvation ...
Local real estate brokers are hailing the probable extension of the federal first time homebuyer tax credit and a new $6,500 credit for homeowners looking to trade up to more expensive homes. According to the Web site Real Estate Economy Watch, action by the U.S. Senate has cleared the way ...
Joblessness in metro Detroit grew at a faster rate than in the state as a whole during the third quarter of this year, an article in Crain's Detroit Business says The unemployment rate in the six-county Detroit metropolitan area grew 2.1 percentage points over the quarter and 8.2 percentage points ...
Home sales in the Washtenaw County area fell 18 percent in August compared to the same month's sales in 2008, according to data just released by the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors. At the same time, condo sales climbed 28 percent to 75 units sold in August. However, the ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
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