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Article: More than having right last name; Roncelli president 1st outside family.(Skip Roncelli of Doeren Mayhew)
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- Crain's Detroit Business
- Article date:
- August 11, 2008
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Byline: Daniel Duggan
When Skip Roncelli started his concrete-pouring business in 1966, revenue was roughly $200,000.
In recent history under his son Gary's leadership, the construction company built the $300 million Technology Center for General Motors Corp., 23 Showcase Cinemas movie theaters across the country and the new $142 million Pinnacle Race Course in Romulus.
The company has grown to 2007 revenue of $236 million.
But an evaluation of the high-level business expertise it would take for the company to compete with the other firms in town led the Roncelli family to hand operations of the company to Tom Wickersham in March. It ...