Business Bridge

Company plans to add nearly 300 jobs atop 131 it already employs in Michigan.

Rock Ventures says capturing sales and income tax is ‘essential’ to major projects including redevelopment of Hudson’s site in Detroit.

How do you say ‘beer’ in Chinese? Michigan businesses to find out.

Prepare for a fight as Wisconsin lawmakers debate $3 billion in incentives to lure a Taiwanese manufacturer to invest $10 billion and create at least 3,000 jobs. The Wolverine State has a big stake in the outcome.

The Michigan Department of Agriculture, is piloting a business development incentives program this year to help food-related companies that might be too small to be eligible for MEDC grants.

For all their bad press, millennials — the 20- to 30-somethings born roughly between 1980 and 2000 — are the future of work. And Michigan companies have a retention problem.

A tax incentive that rewards companies for creating hundreds or thousands of new jobs will require them to also pay “good” wages. What that means for workers remains is not yet clearly defined.

Jeff Mason tells Bridge/Crain’s where he sees opportunities for the state to raise its economic game.

Arauco North America says its new factory will bring 200 jobs to a region desperate for a rebound. How Grayling lured the global forestry giant to northern Michigan may carry lessons for other struggling towns.

Developers want more nightlife and condos, while some voice concern about whether Grayling can maintain its small-town flavor.