Grand Valley: Business News GVSU Business News http://gvsu.edu/business/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:04:18 EST Grand Valley: Business News http://gvsu.edu/images/rsslogo.gif http://gvsu.edu/business/ 112 33 Bagger Dave's cooks niche in downtown Grand Rapids 2013-06-13 00:00:00.0

Any restaurant coming into Grand Rapids will need to find a niche.


That’s the opinion of Jim Kozlowski, managing partner at downtown Grand Rapids' new Bagger Dave's Legendary Burger Tavern.


The new restaurant — located on the riverfront at 241 W. Fulton St. — held its soft opening recently, amid ongoing construction outside.


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]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=6BF9DFA0-E393-02A0-DEFBC5A0227B58BD Grand Rapids, Wyoming in three-way tie on Forbes best summer job list 2013-06-12 00:00:00.0

WEST MICHIGAN -- Grand Rapids and its neighbor, Wyoming, are among the best cities in which to find a job this summer, according to Forbes.com.


Forbes.com listed its best and worst cities for jobs this summer, listing Grand Rapids and Wyoming in a three-way tie for third with Phoenix, Mesa and Scottsdale, Ariz. and San Antonio, Texas, where the net employment outlook is 24 percent, according to Forbes.


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]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=343C1DB2-B994-9260-C73A085E1ECB003E West Michigan office furniture industry wins at NeoCon 2013 2013-06-12 00:00:00.0

West Michigan office furniture manufacturers win at NeoCon 2013

Steelcase’s V.I.A. spaces — or very intelligent architecture — create rooms with relocateable walls. Photo via fb.com


West Michigan’s best-known names in office furniture manufacturing have done well at NeoCon this week, with Steelcase, the largest company, taking the most awards.


Its major competitor, Herman Miller, swept the Best of NeoCon 2013 in showroom design awards.


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Steelcase brands won five Best of NeoCon awards, including four gold awards and one innovation award.


Steelcase products recognized with a Best of NeoCon award include the Gesture chair and V.I.A. architectural solution, Nurture's Regard modular seating, Coalesse's Lagunitas, a comprehensive seating and table collection, and Turnstone's Buoy stool.


The 24th annual Best of NeoCon awards were hosted by Contract Magazine and honor the top new commercial interiors products introduced at NeoCon each year.


The annual Best of NeoCon awards for product are judged by interior design and facility management professionals who reviewed more than 350 entries this year.


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]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=410C3852-DF68-9FD9-7D30209B6977CF1C NeoCon 2013: American Seating's new chairs show evolution of classroom 2013-06-11 00:00:00.0








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CHICAGO -- American Seating is known for outfitting football and baseball stadiums but the 127-year-old Grand Rapids company actually started out making school furniture.

The Grand Rapids company’s original seat-desk combination in 1886 set the seating standard for the education market for decades, said Deb McDermott, vice president of marketing.


“It’s our foundation and still our core competency,” McDermott said.


American Seating’s new education-focused chairs and tables are a departure from its traditional fixed seating in university auditoriums, lecture halls and stadiums. They are designed to meet the need for collaborative space where students listen to short lectures and then move their chairs around to interact in small groups.


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]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=00EADAE4-D907-198A-4A72650E0E19C192 Wall Street Journal features Grand Rapids' effort to remove dams 2013-06-04 00:00:00.0 By Jim Harger | jharger@mlive.com

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The campaign to restore the city’s namesake rapids to the Grand River in the downtown area is gaining more national attention.


In an article headlined, “Real Rapids in Grand Rapids?” the Grand Rapids Whitewater project was featured in the Monday, June 3, editions of the Wall Street Journal.


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]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=98722811-A595-C631-F7691D8A9EC4668F GVSU to teach how to sell products into Southeast Asia at June seminars 2013-06-03 00:00:00.0

MUSKEGON, MI – If you or your company has a product that could be sold in Southeast Asia, Grand Valley State University has an educational opportunity for you.



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The GVSU Van Andel Global Trade Center is presenting two identical half-day seminars on export sales opportunities in the 10-member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.


The first seminar offering is Friday, June 14 at Grand Valley State University on the downtown Grand Rapids campus and the second is Wednesday, June 19 at the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center in Muskegon. Both sessions are from 8:30-11 a.m.


Southeast Asia has a robust economy with 600 million people in the 10 countries in the association. It is a large and growing market for West Michigan exporting companies, Van Andel trade center officials said.


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]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=640BE2C9-BB80-B0D9-D2A3C073BE4604EC Panera Bread opens June 10 downtown in renovated Comerica Building space 2013-05-31 00:00:00.0














Panera Bread downtown GR.jpgThe downtown Panera Bread will open at 99 Monroe Ave. NW on June 10 at 6 a.m. The location is owned by Manna Development.Garret Ellison | MLive 

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A Panera Bread franchise bakery café will open on the ground floor of the renovated Comerica Building downtown on Monday, June 10.


The eatery is owned by Manna Development Group of California, which owns and operates 18 other Panera Bread locations around West Michigan.


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]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=CA06F438-A79E-D672-7DB577D6C31ACC1D Michigan could play a role in Apple's U.S.-made Mac product line 2013-05-29 00:00:00.0









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Apple Inc. plans to use Michigan-made equipment to manufacture a Mac product line in the U.S., according to CEO Tim Cook.


Cook mentioned the Great Lakes state while testifying before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations last week.


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]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=627D3490-E8E7-1732-795D234971DCB47B Fun and effective marketing through podcasts 2013-05-29 00:00:00.0









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It's hard to go anywhere these days without seeing a hoard of people rocking headphones of all shapes and sizes. Whether connected to a phone or mp3 player, people are constantly connecting their ears and minds to devices when on-the-go or while working on something else. What makes this notable to businesses is that unlike in the past with walkmans and discmans, these devices play more than only music.





]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=628ACFB4-FC05-C8FF-6A491DB0B6E750F7 Body of Cullen Finnerty found, Lake County authorities confirm 2013-05-29 00:00:00.0

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LAKE COUNTY, MI — The body of former Grand Valley State quarterback Cullen Finnerty has been found, authorities said late Tuesday evening.




Finnerty, 30, was last heard from Sunday evening and was fishing near the Bray Creek area of the Baldwin River at the time of his disappearance.


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]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=626AABD3-F494-C3C9-BF917595312F4C62 Entrepreneurship: What age group is flocking to start new businesses? 2013-05-28 00:00:00.0








Joan Jonckheere.JPGJoan Jonkheere, 66, of Okemos, started her own business after retiring as a nurse. She makes and sells custom stuffed bears out of loved ones' clothes, quilts and other materials through her business Memory Bears LLC.Brandon Howell | MLive.com 

LANSING, MI -- Entrepreneur: It's a word that elicits images of hipster 20- and 30-somethings inventing apps or gathering at TedX conferences for inspiration.



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]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=2FAB15C6-ABA0-572F-E1DD01CE39740729 Opening of the L. William Seidman Center 2013-05-24 00:00:00.0

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Expect to see a little bit of Grand Rapids on the national airwaves this summer.

A Royal Oak-based film crew is visiting West Michigan this week to get footage for a Grand Rapids-specific Pure Michigan travel marketing commercial that airs June 3.



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]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=2D06EC52-C8AF-9EC6-FBC210C977BD6536 Seidman represented in Rapid Growth today! 2013-05-16 00:00:00.0

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On May 6, the long-anticipated $40 million L. William Seidman Center at Grand Valley State University welcomed its first students to its state-of-the-art facility designed specifically for the needs of the university's business students. The 127,643-square-foot Seidman Center (50 Front St., Grand Rapids) offers the Seidman College of Business students and affiliated departments a fresh new perspective on learning, beginning with an electronic tickertape feed in the lobby that displays current stock trading.



The facility offers students a high-tech trading room with nine Bloomberg Training Terminals for accessing near-real-time stock market action, equipment and opportunities the Seidman College didn't have before. The trading room, named The Gary L. Tilken Financial Markets Center, allows students to practice making trades and to conduct research.



The building also offers a student lounge, a quiet study area, and 15 break-out rooms that accommodate five students for small study groups or projects. The break-out rooms are equipped with file-sharing technology and monitors so students can plug in their laptops and work on a shared project.



Students who miss a class equipped with Classroom Capture technology will be able to view the recorded classroom session on their laptops via a split screen that shows both the instructor and a close up of the smartboard.



"(This building) will keep Grand Valley on the cutting edge of business technology," says John Reifel, Seidman College's interim dean. "It will give us one more thing to help attract students. It's another step that keeps us really ahead of the game."



The Seidman College of Business has over 3,000 students.



Source: John Reifel, Seidman College of Business

Writer: Deborah Johnson Wood, Development News Editor

]]> http://gvsu.edu/business/module-news-view.htm?newsId=C98D41F4-9E13-0AE0-D270DE24386AE826 GVSU energy center to use state grant to study solar energy installations 2013-05-16 00:00:00.0




alternative energy center will circle back to some 75 low-income residents in Muskegon and Oceana counties to see how solar energy has worked for them.



SolarTestBeds.JPGThe solar test beds are outside of the Grand Valley State University Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center in Muskegon.Dave Alexander | Muskegon Chronicle


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