{"id":1304,"date":"2016-09-28T09:20:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T09:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irvin-dev.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2016-09-28T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T09:20:18","slug":"piston-group-acquires-irvin-automotive-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/2016\/09\/28\/piston-group-acquires-irvin-automotive-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Piston Group Acquires Irvin Automotive Products"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>Excerpt from Crain\u2019s Detroit \u2014 <\/em><strong>Piston Group<\/strong>&nbsp;closed Wednesday on the $175 million acquisition of&nbsp;<strong>Takata Corp.<\/strong> subsidiary&nbsp;<strong>Irvin Automotive Inc.<\/strong> The deal,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crainsdetroit.com\/article\/20160926\/NEWS\/160929711\/piston-group-nears-deal-to-acquire-takata-subsidiary-irvin-automotive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first reported by&nbsp;<em>Crain\u2019s<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;earlier this week, propels the Redford Township-based supplier owned by former&nbsp;<strong>Detroit Pistons<\/strong>&nbsp;guard Vinnie Johnson into a full-fledged manufacturer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Detroit entrepreneur\u00a0Vinnie Johnson\u00a0has acquired Irvin Automotive Products, creating one of the largest privately-owned automotive supplier groups in\u00a0Michigan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson\u2019s expanded Piston Group of companies is expected to post record sales of more than\u00a0$1.8 billion\u00a0in 2016 with 8,300 employees at 15 facilities in\u00a0the United States\u00a0and\u00a0Mexico. Other companies in the group include Piston Automotive, Detroit Thermal Systems and AIREA, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crainsdetroit.com\/print\/article\/20160928\/NEWS\/160929581\/vinnie-johnsons-piston-group-closes-on-175-million-deal-for-takata\">Read the entire\u00a0<em>Crain\u2019s Detroit Business<\/em>\u00a0Article \u00bb<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Crain\u2019s Detroit \u2014 Piston Group&nbsp;closed Wednesday on the $175 million acquisition of&nbsp;Takata Corp. subsidiary&nbsp;Irvin Automotive Inc. The deal,&nbsp;first reported by&nbsp;Crain\u2019s&nbsp;earlier this week, propels the Redford Township-based supplier owned by former&nbsp;Detroit Pistons&nbsp;guard Vinnie Johnson into a full-fledged manufacturer. Detroit entrepreneur\u00a0Vinnie Johnson\u00a0has acquired Irvin Automotive Products, creating one of the largest privately-owned automotive supplier groups in\u00a0Michigan. Johnson\u2019s expanded Piston Group &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/2016\/09\/28\/piston-group-acquires-irvin-automotive-products\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pistoninteriors.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}