AT A GLANCE
WHO:
Alliance International
WHAT:
Global freight forwarder, NVOCC
and U.S. Customs broker;
division of Alliance Shippers Inc.
WHERE:
Long Beach, Califonia
WEBSITE:
He was back in business by 2006 as a
manufacturer of replacement auto parts and
parlayed the purchase of additional
injection-molding equipment – much of it
made available when other companies went
belly-up – into parts-making contracts with
surviving Michigan-based companies like
Lacks Enterprises, Johnson Controls and
MagnaDonnelly.
A return to full-throated legitimacy arrived
when Chrysler became a client, and, by
2011, the return to prominencewarranted a
$1million internal investment to transform
the company’s existing headquarters
location into another molding facility – its
sixth.
142 | BusinessWorld |
May 2014
