Several West Michigan businesses were recognized by Corp! Magazine as champions in the areas of cultural and ethnic diversity. The list includes the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce and Meijer.
According to excerpts from the story:
Diversity is nothing new to Michigan businesses, especially in the Detroit region and in the multicultural work forces of automotive factories. In 1914, for example, 71 percent of Ford Motor Co.'s employees were foreign-born from 22 different nationalities. The man who led America's "Arsenal of Democracy" production efforts during World War II— the late General Motors President and former Ford executive William S. Knudsen (whose Danish birth name was Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen)— once humorously said that he learned to shout "hurry up" in 15 different languages to workers on the line.
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