Danlaw has enjoyed a healthy sales increase since the end of the Great Recession, including a significant spike over the last year.
The Novi-based firm specializes in automotive-embedded electronics for network communications, infotainment, and telematics. Much of its recent growth has come from connected-vehicle technology work, which enables a car to communicate to other electronic devices around it.
"It has grown a lot in the last few months," says Tom Rzeznik, president of
Danlaw. "Our connected-vehicle division has propelled our growth over the last five years."
That equates to an 80-percent revenue increase for the 30-year-old company between 2012 and 2013. It has hired 30 people in Metro Detroit over the last year, with a vast majority of those new hires being engineers. The firm now employs 150 people in the U.S. and 250 abroad in China and India.
Rzeznik says the company is on pace to do similar numbers in the 2013 to 2014 year, which is why it continues to hire.
"We're looking at significant growth this year as well," Rzeznik says.
Source: Tom Rzeznik, president of Danlaw
Writer: Jon Zemke
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