Pete Daly

Pete Daly

Pete Daly is a Grand Rapids Business Journal staff reporter who covers manufacturing, health care, banking and finance, food service and agriculture, and lakeshore business. Email Pete at pdaly at grbj dot com. Follow him on Twitter @PeteDalyGR

ARTICLES

Fifth Third Bank names Tom Welch head of West Michigan

June 18, 2013
Michelle Van Dyke, regional president of Fifth Third Bank, has announced that Fifth Third’s longtime St. Louis market president and CEO, Tom Welch, has been named president and CEO of Fifth Third Bank, Western Michigan, replacing Mary Tuuk. Read More

Whirlpool's KitchenAid 'powered by' SodaStream

June 18, 2013
Whirlpool Corporation’s KitchenAid division has made a deal with SodaStream, an Israeli manufacturing company, to add to the KitchenAid product line an in-home carbonated beverage system, according to the Benton Harbor-based home appliance manufacturer. Read More

Perrigo acquires rights to Fera Pharmaceuticals line for $93M

June 17, 2013
Perrigo has acquired the rights to produce an ophthalmic sterile ointment and solution products portfolio from Fera Pharmaceuticals of Long Island, N.Y., for an upfront cash payment of approximately $93 million. Read More

Legal squall hits Lake Winds Energy Park

June 14, 2013
Disgruntled homeowners near the new Mason County wind farm are going to get their day in court — if they don’t settle out of court first. But prior cases in Michigan hint at a tough battle in the courtroom. Read More

Fifth Third Bank re-assigns West Michigan president Mary Tuuk

June 14, 2013
Grand Rapids native Mary Tuuk, a longtime Fifth Third Bank executive who became president of the bank’s Western Michigan region in January 2012, has been re-assigned to the bank's corporate headquarters in Cincinnati. Read More

West Michigan office furniture industry wins at NeoCon 2013

June 12, 2013
West Michigan’s best-known names in office furniture manufacturing have done well at NeoCon this week, with Steelcase, the largest company, taking the most awards. Read More

Spectrum Health raises prices 5.9 percent in Grand Rapids

June 12, 2013
Spectrum Health prices at Grand Rapids hospitals and clinics will increase an average of 5.9 percent in FY2014, which begins July 1, according to its annual budget review. Read More

Priority Health gives Medicaid patients access to Metro Health

June 10, 2013
Priority Health has increased access to care for Medicaid members in a new relationship with Metro Health in the Grand Rapids area. Read More

Gun Lake Casino makes $8.4M revenue-sharing payments

June 10, 2013
The Gun Lake Tribe has announced that its spring revenue-sharing payments to the state and local governments from its casino revenues in Wayland Township will exceed $8.4 million and now total more than $34 million since the Gun Lake Casino opened in February 2011. Read More

Saint Mary’s Health Care now Mercy Health Saint Mary’s

New regional brand has been launched for Trinity Health properties in West Michigan.

June 7, 2013
A new sign has been unveiled on the second largest hospital in Greater Grand Rapids: Saint Mary’s Health Care is now Mercy Health Saint Mary’s. Read More