A Traverse City farm is finding innovative ways to protect the profitability of local crops during uncertain times. Last year, Wunsch Farms on Old Mission Peninsula purchased the area’s first fresh cherry packing line. The equipment cost half a million dollars, but according to Wunsch Farms'...
[caption id="attachment_22625" align="alignleft" width="300"] Growing markets like agriculture, transportation, security, mining and other industries are pushing more drones into the sky.[/caption] A technology company with northern Michigan roots is growing its business through drones and the air traffic control snarl expected to come with them. Aveopt, a...
On the list of the most in-demand employee benefits, paid family leave might just rank at the top. According to a 2019 survey by employee benefits insurance company Unum Group, paid family leave is the perk that most job seekers want. Fifty-eight percent of respondents expressed...
Group health insurance is getting more commonplace – and more complicated – for northern Michigan employers. According to Kim Boyer, who handles group health plans for Traverse City’s Ford Insurance, low unemployment rates and high competition for top talent have pushed some small businesses in the...
Munson Healthcare wants to set a shining example for what rural healthcare can look like. The healthcare system, which includes nine hospitals throughout northern Michigan, is currently in the midst of a major integration campaign. The integration will touch everything from IT to marketing, with the...
Summer is upon us, and that means a busy time of festivals, tourist crowds and peak traffic for many local businesses. But what will summer 2019 bring that Traverse City hasn’t seen before, and how will this particular summer season affect the local business community?...
[caption id="attachment_20778" align="alignleft" width="300"] Graduation diploma on background of US dollar bills[/caption] Do you want your business to be able to attract top-tier talent? If so, you’d better have something in your benefits package that includes the word “tuition” in it. Out of the college graduating class...
[caption id="attachment_20755" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Maritime Technology program has received more than 350 applications for fall 2019, with the application window still open until July 1.[/caption] Two Northwestern Michigan College programs are renowned on a nationwide level and can claim an exceedingly rare and desirable stat:...
The Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District (TBAISD) Career-Tech Center is seeing record enrollment numbers across many of its programs and growing demand from local industry employers – trends that Principal Pat Lamb attributes to “a positive swing in the direction of skilled trades,” as...
Is the construction industry healthy, or is it on the downward slide? Right now, some experts are predicting that the United States could be heading toward another housing bubble. At the end of last summer, mortgage interest rates spiked and cooled demand, but didn’t curb high...
