TRAVERSE CITY - Two Grand Rapids natives with extensive telecommunications and financial experience are in the process of acquiring Voice Data Systems (VDS) from Feyen-Zylstra in Grand Rapids.VDS has offices in Traverse City and Grand Rapids. The buy-out will be complete sometime this month.The new...
Cell phones are everywhere. Kids use them to keep in touch with their parents (and constant contact with their friends); adults use them to order take-out and call friends (just like their kids); and employers issue them to employees as a "perk" or as part...
DSL has entered the high-speed Internet chase in Traverse City.Big Net North, Cherryland Online Services and Peninsula Telephone recently joined the race with Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) service. It's the latest competition among the cable modems and wireless hook-ups sprawling across the region.Nationwide, 2.8 million...
TRAVERSE CITY - EC&S is nearly tripling its surveying capabilities with the recent acquisition of Advantage Land Surveys (ALS) of Traverse City,EC&S is a full-service company that provides environmental consulting, civil engineering, and land surveying services. The merged operations will be run from EC&S' Traverse...
MANCELONA - Environmental Protection, Inc. has a product that, if all goes according to plan, you'll never see.The Mancelona-based company fabricates flexible geomembrane liners for a variety of water and waste containment applications. Their work can't be seen locally at Treetops Golf Course in Gaylord,...
TRAVERSE CITY - You won't find suits and ties at Global Marine Insurance. Instead, you'll be greeted by a receptionist with the hail, "Welcome aboard!" and a staff of 20 with the "boating gene." And, if you catch them at a boat show, they'll be...
The recent increase in gas prices has left in its wake angrier people than just truck drivers and others who depend on over-the-road transportation and hauling. Specifically, the effect of increased demand for all hydrocarbons has brought with it the result and necessity of additional...
TRAVERSE CITY - Traverse Anesthesia Associates, PC, and Pain Consultants, PC, have pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud for double billing insurance companies for certain medical procedures, according to the U.S. Attorney's office for the Western District of Michigan. They will be sentenced...
Protecting natural resources, conserving energy, and saving business dollars need not be considered mutually exclusive.Earth Communications Office (ECO), a non-profit group headquartered in Los Angeles that uses mass communications to deliver environmental messages to billions, believes that American businesses of all sizes can voluntarily play...
