Rafino Valentine's vodka bar As he showed us around, Rafino explained that the whole concept of being a Detroit-based company starts with the building itself.

We had heard that there was a Detroit-based company making mead, an ancient alcoholic beverage produced by fermenting a solution of honey and water.

Among the Detroit-based companies, the biggest gainer in the tail end of the year was Ford, which sold 85,168 cars in the period, an increase of 26.1 percent.

"Rio" (1969), her next volume of poetry, was published by Broadside Press, a small, Detroit-based black company.

During press previews this week of the 2001 show, executives of Detroit-based companies were not celebrating, but were talking in somber tones about a vehicle market that has lost its steam.

Karla Scherer Fink, a daughter of the founder, is the largest shareholder of the Detroit-based company.

With foreign brands continuing to gain market share, the Detroit-based companies are fighting over a smaller slice of a shrinking pie.

In Victor Papanek's "Design for the Real World," there's a great anecdote about car safety in the 1970's, which was totally ignored by Detroit-based companies for a while.

For Detroit-based companies, he said, "the weakness of the yen just makes the task a lot harder."

The Detroit-based company owns a chain of six African-American newspapers, which includes The Chicago Defender and Pittsburgh Courier.