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The Company That Sells Detroit Without Selling a Thing
Its service is free, its product is an 11-county region, and its best sales tool may be a soil report. Detroit Regional Partnership turned economic development into a concierge business.
The 105 Knocks on Greenville's Door
A county-created nonprofit turns confidential inquiries into factories, tax agreements and paychecks. Its real product is not land or money, but a shorter distance between a corporate maybe and a public yes.
Yusuf Amdani Bet on Honduras. Then He Built Around the Job.
A textile heir arrived in Honduras with a factory plan and stayed to build an ecosystem. Three decades later, Yusuf Amdani's revealing product is not cloth or real estate - it is his theory of opportunity.
The Real-Estate Firm Betting That Aging Well Is an Operating Business
Livingston Street Capital built a national property portfolio around an unfashionably practical filter: needs before wants. Its wager on active-adult housing shows what happens when demographic conviction meets hands-on operations.
The Logistics Giant That Sold Its Trucks and Kept the Map
Agility built a freight empire across the emerging world, sold it to a Danish rival for stock, and used the proceeds to buy airports' ground crews and fuel tankers instead. Here is how a Kuwaiti warehousing company became a holding company for the plumbing of global trade.
The Private-Equity Firm That Passes the Hat
Borgman Capital buys the kind of profitable, founder-led companies that rarely become household names. Its twist is structural: no traditional fund, capital raised one deal at a time, and a real-estate team that can buy the building along with the business.