This weekend, the New York Times profiled several Michigan companies who are succeeding in diversifying into new, high-growth sectors. Thanks to the MEDC’s robust toolbox of economic development tools and resources combined with Michigan’s competitive business climate, companies are finding that Michigan can give them an upper hand.

NTR’s chief executive, Jim Barry, said, “It should be no surprise we went to Detroit. The standard of manufacturing in the automotive industry is extraordinarily high, and that is the only place you can find such a concentration of skills.”

Despite the negative headlines we’re bombarded with every day, there are great things happening in Michigan as this story and others like it demonstrate.

Tagged as: economic diversification, global automotive innovation, manufacturing diversification

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