Detroit, MI - City Resources, Biz Networking for Women
Contacts - Movers & Shakers - Networking Contact or join these groups before your stay to mazimize your access to powerful networks.
Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce
Unitedway for Southern Michigan Women's Initiative
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Largest Industries
Detroit and the surrounding region constitute a manufacturing powerhouse, most notably as home to the Big Three automobile companies, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. The city is an important center for global trade with large international law firms having their offices in both Detroit and Windsor. About 80,000 people work in downtown Detroit.
There are hundreds of offices and plants in the automotive support business: parts, electronics, and design suppliers. The domestic auto industry accounts directly and indirectly for one of every ten jobs in the United States.The area is also an important source of engineering job opportunities.
With new business in the suburbs, the region is competitive in emerging technologies including biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology, cognotechnology, and hydrogen fuel cell development. The city of Detroit has made efforts to lure the region's growth companies downtown with advantages such as a wireless Internet zone, business tax incentives, entertainment, an international riverfront, and residential high rises.
Magazines
Business
City Guides
City of Detroit | City Search-Detroit | Digital City-Detroit
TV
WXYZ (ABC) | WWJ (CBS) | WJBK (FOX) | WDIV (NBC) | WTVS (PBS) | WKBD (UPN) | WB20 (WB)
Radio
WJR 760 | WKRK | WWJ 950 (CBS) | WXYT | WDET-FM
Business Resources
Elance - Outsourced freelancers for any type of work
Fedex-Kinkos - for any type of doc production, shipping
American Exress - for flight reservations, hotels, automatic flight insurance
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