↓ "Detroit and the surrounding region constitute a major
manufacturing center, 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 80,500 people
work in downtown Detroit, comprising 21% of the City's employment.
There are about four thousand factories in the area. The domestic
auto industry is primarily headquartered in Metro Detroit. New vehicle production, sales, and jobs
related to automobile use account for one of every ten jobs in the United States. The area is also
an important source of engineering job opportunities. A 2004 Border Transportation Partnership
study showed that 150,000 jobs in the Windsor-Detroit region and $13 billion in annual production
depend on the City of Detroit's international border crossing...
Firms in the suburbs pursue 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. Thus far, the city has had some success, most
notably the addition of Compuware World Headquarters, OnStar, EDS offices at the Renaissance
Center, PricewaterhouseCoopers Plaza offices adjacent to Ford Field, and the 2006 completion of
Ernst & Young's offices at One Kennedy Square...
Some Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Detroit include General
Motors, auto parts maker American Axle & Manufacturing, and DTE Energy. Other major industries
include advertising, law, finance, chemicals, and computer software.
-- Detroit. (2009, November 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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