Zehnder’s of Frankenmuth – We’re Pure Michigan

By Al Zehnder, CEO of Zehnder’s of Frankenmuth My family and I were in California last year visiting family. My brother and sister-in-law live in the San Francisco area and my sister and her family live in San Diego. We had been in San Francisco area for about...

July 30, 1930

By Al Zehnder, CEO of Zehnder’s of Frankenmuth When my grandparents, William and Emilie Zehnder, purchased the Exchange Hotel in 1928 the country was on the brink of the Great Depression and Prohibition had been passed just 11 years earlier. Not a great time to...

The Mechanical Man

By John Zehnder, CEC, ACE, HGT, AAC When I think of Detroit Tigers baseball, three names come to mind; Ty Cobb, Al Kaline and Charlie Gehringer. Charlie Gehringer, named the all-time greatest second baseman in 1969, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1949....