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Featured Video: Epiphany Studios
Tom Hendrickson
Friday, April 20, 2018
Move over Chihuly, Epiphany Studios is out to eat your lunch. Okay, not really, but this Pontiac-based glass studio produces some incredible work, employing techniques developed and mastered by Italian glass blowers over hundreds of years.
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Arts + Culture
,
Design
,
Entrepreneurship
Pontiac
Featured Video: Sydney Bogg's Sweet Essentials
M-1 Studios
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
When Detroit's iconic candymaker Sydney Bogg's closed in 2002, customers thought they had lost their beloved Bogg's candies and chocolates for good. But long-time candymakers and Sydney Bogg's employees Lisa Peasley and her sister and brother-in-law Debbie and Gary Schlicker found that they were still receiving requests for the classic candies -- so much so that they were able to revive the brand with a new store called
Sydney Bogg's Sweet Essentials
in Berkley featuring the most popular hand-made chocolates and confections from the classic brand. Video by
M-1 Studios
.
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Entrepreneurship
Berkley
Featured Video: What's Brewing in Oakland County
Matthew Stanton
Friday, November 17, 2017
There is no question that craft beer is experiencing explosive growth all over the country. With some of America's largest, top-ranked craft beer producers right here in Michigan, our Great Beer State is at the forefront of this exciting industry, and in Oakland County, there seems to be a new brewery opening every week. Here we take a look at relative newbies Farmington Brewing Company, Ascension Brewing Company in Novi, and North Center Brewing Company in Northville for their take on the booming craft of brewing and what it means for the local economy and the state of Michigan as a whole.
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Emerging Sectors
,
Entrepreneurship
Northville
,
Novi
,
Farmington / Farmington Hills
Featured Video: B Nektar
Tom Hendrickson
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Mead, it's not just for renaissance fest geeks anymore. Proof? B. Nektar in hipper-than-thou Ferndale, where honey, apples and all sorts of fermentable goodness are crafted into a darn fine brew.
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Entrepreneurship
Ferndale
Featured Video: Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle
Tom Hendrickson
Friday, April 21, 2017
Laughter is truly the best medicine, and
Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle
is your favorite doctor's office. Since 1979, the Comedy Castle in Royal Oak has been a staple for stand-up comedy in Metro Detroit, helping to launch the careers of folks like Tim Allen and Dave Coulier and seeing some of the biggest names in stand-up of the last 40 years come through its doors, while also allowing new talent the opportunity to take the stage with its popular weekly open mic nights.
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Arts + Culture
,
Entrepreneurship
Royal Oak
Featured Video: Andrew Chmielewski
Matthew Stanton
Friday, March 17, 2017
Andrew Chmielewski is the co-founder of Dave's Sweet Tooth, the become the largest manufacturer of specialty toffee products in Michigan, and Mitten Crate, a monthly subscription-based box delivery of Michigan-made artisan food products and specialty goods. He is part of the
Elite 40 Under 40 Class of 2015
.
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Entrepreneurship
,
Oakland County
Featured Video: Sundberg-Ferar
Matthew Stanton
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Sundberg-Ferar
was established in 1934 and is the second oldest industrial product design company in the United States. The Walled Lake company is an industry leader with a product roster that includes home appliances, automotive products, industrial electronic products, mass transit vehicles, vending machines, aircraft interiors, medical tools, and concept models for the NASA space station. Take a look inside Sundberg-Ferar with this Oakland County Prosper video by Matthew Stanton.
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Automotive
,
Design
,
Entrepreneurship
Walled Lake
Featured Video: American Plastic Toys
Tom Hendrickson
Monday, February 06, 2017
American Plastic Toys
is an all-American-made toy company based in Walled Lake, Michigan. Their injection-molded plastic toys are sold in places like Walmart, Sears, JC Penney, Big Lots and Toys"R"Us at prices significantly lower than their name-brand counterparts (which are typically manufactured outside of the United States). American Plastic Toys have been proudly made in the USA since 1962, and currently employ 175 people here in Michigan.
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Entrepreneurship
,
Global Oakland
Walled Lake
Featured Video: Bingo Pet Salon
Tom Hendrickson
Friday, October 21, 2016
Bingo Pet Salon is a full-service dog and cat grooming facility in downtown Royal Oak that also offers dog walking and pet sitting services as well as groomer training classes. Learn more about this successful, independently-owned shop from owner Brian Lane, whose tireless commitment turned it into a thriving business. This video was produced by
Hendrickson Video Productions Detroit
.
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Entrepreneurship
Royal Oak
Featured Video: Jersey Mike's Franchise
Advantage Oakland
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Sharing the Bread Inc., a franchise of
Jersey Mike's Subs
, is one of the small businesses located throughout Oakland County that was helped by the SBA 504 Loan provided by the Oakland County Business Finance Corporation. Here Robert Middleton, President of Sharing the Bread Inc., talks about how the SBA 504 Loan helped their business start opening franchises of the East Coast submarine sandwich chain, with an agreement signed in 2012 to open 20 Jersey Mike's stores in Oakland and Macomb County.
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Entrepreneurship
,
Global Oakland
Featured Video: Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Tom Hendrickson
Friday, April 22, 2016
Doctor Kill-r-watt! The Great Chopandoff! Marvin's is a coin-operated wonderland of blinking, buzzing, and clattering machines. Every square inch is crammed with animatronic dummies, model airplanes, video games, and sideshow posters. From boardwalk-style gypsy fortune telling machines to the "Sing-Sing prison electric chair" to a custom-made automated orchestra, this one-of-a-kind arcade doubles as a museum unlike any you've ever visited.
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Arts + Culture
,
Entrepreneurship
West Bloomfield
Featured Video: SOAR Learning Skills
Matthew Stanton
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Susan Kruger has spent over a decade teaching hundreds of students how to succeed in school. She began tutoring individual students in study skills. As demand for her expertise grew, she created the SOAR® Study Skills Workshops to reach more students.
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Education + Learning
,
Entrepreneurship
,
Oakland County
Featured Video: The Robot Garage
Tom Hendrickson
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
At
The Robot Garage
, LEGO toys and robotics adventures are more than just childhood pastimes. Located in a converted warehouse in Birmingham's Rail District, this imagination laboratory hosts building classes, birthday parties, weekend competitions and one of the coolest retail shops in all of Oakland County. Whether you're a creative kid or just a child at heart, there's plenty to discover.
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Design
,
Education + Learning
,
Entrepreneurship
,
Research + Innovation
Birmingham
Featured Video: Beauty Blossoms In Metro Detroit
Tom Hendrickson
Monday, July 20, 2015
Norm Silk and Dale Morgan are all about aesthetics -- whether it's the explosion of flowers that fill their Birmingham boutique or the restoration of the only home in Detroit to be designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Arts + Culture
,
Design
,
Entrepreneurship
Birmingham
Featured Video: Planterra
Tom Hendrickson
Friday, January 09, 2015
It's always spring at
Planterra
, an enchanting landscape conservatory in West Bloomfield. Through a partnership with Oakland County's SBA 504 loan program, Planterra was able to expand from greenhouses to their current botanical paradise, including a new event space that's open to the public.
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Entrepreneurship
West Bloomfield
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