After largely holding its ground for the last year, Patti Engineering is taking significant steps toward serious growth.
The Auburn Hills-based firm has made four hires within the last year, allowing it to keep its employee count at around 30 over the last year. It has also opened a new office in Massachusetts to take advantage of growing business prospects in the northeast section of the U.S.
The company has big plans for 2010 and 2011. It expects to hire another 10-15 people over the next two years. It also is looking at opening another satellite office later this year.
"We are really diversifying our offerings to other industries," says Sam Hoff, president of Patti Engineering.
That means continuing to move the 19-year-old company from its traditional automotive base to other sectors, such as energy and wastewater treatment and the food and distribution industries. The company is making an aggressive Internet marketing push, too, to help grow its business.
Husband-and-wife team Patti and Sam Hoff started Patti Engineering in 1991 after Sam left his job and had trouble finding another. One colleague didn't have room for Sam on his business' staff, but offered to use Sam's services if he started his own company.
Source: Sam Hoff, president of Patti Engineering
Writer: Jon Zemke
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