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State Courts Covisint for New HQ

SOUTHFIELD, MI-Development Group Offers Incentives to Auto Industry Exchange to Move to Michigan.

By Robert Carr | Updated on July 28, 2000

Michigan Economic Development Corp. members met recently with the top three executives of Covisint, an online auto industry exchange, to woo them into locating the firm’s headquarters to Michigan. At the meeting were the MEDC chairman Doug Rothwell, the Covisint executives, Peter Weiss of DaimlerChrysler AG, Alan Turfe of General Motors Corp. and representatives of Ford Motor Co. The Big Three created the online purchasing and communications system for automakers and suppliers.

Kathy McMahon, director of communications for the MEDC, told GlobeSt.com that it hopes the company will locate 500 employees at one of four sites: Ann Arbor, Oakland County’s Automation Alley along I-75, Pinnacle Aeropark under development at Detroit Metro Wayne County Airport or the Campus Martius office project in downtown Detroit.

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