June 10th, 20210DEARBORN — Businesses throughout Southeast Michigan can now take advantage of free air filtration kits being distributed by the Dearborn Area Chamber of Commerce.
The kits were developed by Ford and Lasko Products as an effective air filtration unit that allows for quick and simple assembly on site. The kits also supplement a...
August 17th, 20180DEARBORN — Ford Motor Company disclosed Tuesday it will spend $740 million on a project to revamp Michigan Central Station, Detroit’s historic but dilapidated former rail station, as well as other neighborhood sites.
Ford aims to turn the building into a campus of offices for up to 5,000 tech workers and software engineers focused...
DETROIT – A federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan has found in favor of former Ford engineer Faisal G. Khalaf, ruling that his superiors discriminated against him — based on his heritage and accent— and fired him after he’d attempted to come forward about what had happened to him.
Khalaf, who was awarded $16.8...
April 5th, 20180DEARBORN – A former Ford employee has been awarded $16.8 million after successfully suing the automaker and two of its supervisors for creating a hostile work environment and discrimination based on the employee's Arab background.
Following an 11-day trial, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan ruled on March 28 in...
January 12th, 20180DEARBORN — The second largest U.S. automaker said it confirmed in late December that a July 2017 crash death in West Virginia in a 2006 Ford Ranger was caused by a defective Takata inflator. It previously reported a similar death in South Carolina that occurred in December 2015.
Ford said both Takata deaths occurred with inflators...
September 22nd, 20170ANN ARBOR — Ford Motor Company and Domino's Pizza Inc. will begin testing consumers' reactions to having their pies delivered by self-driving vehicles, the companies said late last month.
It will not be the first experiment with advanced pizza delivery technology. Australia-based Domino's Pizza Enterprises, the Ann Arbor-based...
August 4th, 20171DETROIT — U.S. carmakers said on Tuesday they continued to slash low-margin sales to daily rental fleets in July as the overall pace of U.S. car and light truck sales fell for the fifth straight month.
The annualized pace of U.S. car and light truck sales in July fell to 16.73 million vehicles, down from 17.8 million vehicles a year...
May 19th, 20170DEARBORN — Ford Motor Co plans to cut 1,400 salaried jobs in North America and Asia through voluntary early retirement and other financial incentives as the No. 2 U.S. automaker looks to boost its sagging stock price.
Ford shares fell as much as 2.5 percent in heavy trading Wednesday and were headed to their worst close since...
April 4th, 20170DEARBORN – The opening of a hotel in the heart of downtown Dearborn brings the first stages of promising business developments expected to substantially revitalize the city.
A towering, seemingly new building on Michigan Avenue is among dozens of award-winning Hampton Inn Hotels owned by four Iraqi immigrants – the Bacall...
March 17th, 20170DETROIT — On Wednesday, President Trump ordered a review of tough U.S. vehicle fuel-efficiency standards put in place by the Obama administration, handing a victory to auto industry executives and provoking criticism from Democrats and environmental groups.
In a move widely seen as a preamble to loosening fuel standards, Trump told...
