Gallagher writes...
As Bill McGivern built his piping supply business over the years, he quietly stewed over what he saw as the State of Michigan's neglect of homegrown businesses. Trade missions to China and other distant locales left McGivern wondering, "Why not take care of our own?" So McGivern, CEO of the Macomb Group, a Sterling Heights-based supplier of industrial piping, said Friday that he was overjoyed to learn of Gov. Rick Snyder's pledge to do some "economic gardening" in Michigan. The concept means nurturing smaller firms in the state with a variety of new economic-development tools, instead of hunting big out-of-state firms to come to Michigan. Snyder's economic gardening concept is not new. Agencies such as the Michigan Economic Development Corp. have been working on business-retention programs for years. But the new emphasis Snyder, a former venture capitalist, placed on growing local firms promises to put a different face on economic-development efforts throughout the state.
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