106-year-old family business adjusts to markets, seizes opportunities to stay viable #DetroitNews

Seth Schwartz Special to Crain's Detroit Business - The ability to adjust to changing markets and seize opportunities is critical for small family businesses to thrive, the same attributes that helped Louis Gelder & Sons reach its 106th year in business. The first opportunity arrived in 1910, when Louis Gelder moved from Chicago to Millburg, Mich., near Benton Harbor, and bought a hardware store, changed its name and started making high-end leather harnesses for wagons and buggies along with selling hardware and household products. Business

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