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| Mike Fitzpatrick, Owner and President of Fitzpatrick Manufacturing Company was named by the RARE Foundation of Troy as its third Everyday Hero Award recipient for 2008. |
Mike Fitzpatrick, Owner and President of Fitzpatrick Manufacturing Company in Sterling Heights was named by the RARE Foundation of Troy as its third Everyday Hero Award recipient for 2008. The RARE Award was established in 1998 by Gilbert C. Cox, Jr. to recognize everyday people in the workplace who through extraordinary commitment, compassion and courage are changing lives and inspiring others.
Fitzpatrick was honored for his “employees-first” leadership style that has kept the company consistently viable through troubling times and for the exceptional commitment he has made over the past ten years to mentoring at-risk youth in the Warren community..
Belying the stereotype of his position, Mike’s office is an open cubicle; he wears the same uniform as his employees and punches in and out on the Company time clock every day. His describes his personal business philosophy as, “…old-school, demanding and focused- but, it works!”
Fitzpatrick Manufacturing is a full service CNC machining company which specializes in annualized blanket purchase orders and short lead time batch manufacturing of molds, tools, dies and other finished parts. The company has been profitable twenty-nine of the thirty-one years Fitzpatrick has owned it. More significantly, it just completed its highest sales and most profitable quarter in its history.
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