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Pages in category "Manufacturing companies based in Grand Rapids, Michigan" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Crystal Bowman (2006). "Rita Williams".Amazing Women of West Michigan.Wm. B. Eerdmans. p. 68. ISBN 0802840221. She also kept close track of Gill Industries, Inc. – the family-owned manufacturing business that her husband, John Gill, founded with Rita's brother in 1964.
Even this was not enough, as Simmons declared bankruptcy in 1931, and the Grand Rapids factories closed their doors. Local stockholders reopened the factory in 1935, and continued production until World War II, when it was converted to wartime needs. After the war, an attempt was made to convert back to furniture production, but the company was ...
The Steelcase Plants No. 2 and 3 complex contains four buildings: a single-story brick factory building with a monitor roof constructed in 1908, a four-story brick industrial loft-type factory building constructed between 1926 and 1930, a brick power plant also constructed in 1926, and a single-story concrete block building constructed in 1953.
The first Grand Rapids store opened on South Division Avenue in 1949. [10] By the 1960s, the company had over two dozen stores located throughout West Michigan. [citation needed] In 1962 Meijer launched its modern format with a store at the corner of 28th Street and Kalamazoo Avenue in Grand
UFP Industries, Inc. is a holding company that serves three markets: retail, industrial and construction. The company is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has been publicly traded (Nasdaq: UFPI) since 1993.
Lear grew during the 1980s and 1990s through a series of acquisitions. The company sought to become a supplier of complete interior automotive systems, that is, a supplier of seating, electrical, flooring, interior trim, instrument panels, etc., to original equipment manufacturing (OEM) auto companies.
The full Herpolsheimer's name was restored to the downtown Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Muskegon, and Battle Creek stores. [12] In 1987, the two Herpolsheimer's stores in the Grand Rapids area, were merged into Allied Stores' Indianapolis-based William H. Block unit and were sold to Federated Department Stores. At that same time, the downtown Battle ...