Publisher Edwards Brothers small but steady
A business doesn’t have to be part of the University of Michigan or the auto industry to be considered a legacy industry in Ann Arbor.Excerpt:Ann Arbor-based Edwards Brothers Inc. isn’t part of the automotive industry, connected to the University of Michigan, or involved in the high-tech industry.So even though the company has a big sign outside its headquarters on State Street in Ann Arbor, company President and CEO John Edwards said many people are barely aware of the company’s existence.”We’re not auto, we’re not part of the ‘U,’ so we are sort of this invisible thing,” Edwards said. “That’s OK. I’m not complaining — it’s just kind of the nature of the business.”For Edwards, “the business” is a fourth-generation publishing company founded in 1893. Edwards Brothers has survived the Great Depression and many technological advances that have changed the way books are made.Read the rest of the story here.
A business doesn’t have to be part of the University of Michigan or the auto industry to be considered a legacy industry in Ann Arbor.
Excerpt:
Ann Arbor-based Edwards Brothers Inc. isn’t part of the automotive industry, connected to the University of Michigan, or involved in the high-tech industry.
So even though the company has a big sign outside its headquarters on State Street in Ann Arbor, company President and CEO John Edwards said many people are barely aware of the company’s existence.
“We’re not auto, we’re not part of the ‘U,’ so we are sort of this invisible thing,” Edwards said. “That’s OK. I’m not complaining — it’s just kind of the nature of the business.”
For Edwards, “the business” is a fourth-generation publishing company founded in 1893. Edwards Brothers has survived the Great Depression and many technological advances that have changed the way books are made.
Read the rest of the story here.
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