Tony Soave Pioneers Progressive Business Practices Anthony Soave shares professional insight regarding the need for innovation within each industry and business at Soave Enterprises. In a message to Soave employees, he encouraged each of his employees to reconsider their services and approach to business welcoming progressive new ideas. His enthusiasm and passion for excellence is evident in this company address: Anthony Soave Encourages Innovation At The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, visitors can witness many of modern history’s greatest innovations. With exhibits like Henry Ford’s assembly line, Thomas Edison’s light bulb and the Wright brothers’ airplane, even the most casual observer realizes that the pioneers who generated these inventions refused to accept the status quo. Their vision has made each of our lives far richer. It is this spirit of innovation that Soave team members are encouraged to embrace. In recent years, business people have overused the term “thinking outside the box.” However, the ability to view challenges and opportunities in a fresh way is highly desirable. Original thought motivates us and keeps the companies within Soave Enterprises at the top of their game. Sometimes the inspired changes are large in scale. At Ferrous Processing & Trading, our team devised the company’s patent pending RamPress system. The result of seeking out a novel solution to a customer’s need, this recently implemented model of innovation allows FPT to offer a more efficient and value-added approach to scrap generators and steel makers in its varied customer base. In other circumstances, only a slight modification of current methods is needed to stand apart from the competition. Mercedes-Benz of Progress Point, for example, offers athome consultations to explain the more technical aspects of its clients’ new automobiles. Here, a small innovation created a major customer service enhancement In past years, the CITY Beverage-Arlington Heights leadership team was struggling to bring two formerly separate companies together and function at peak performance. The design of a novel incentive for the sales team, as well as the guts and tenacity of both employees and leadership, ultimately reversed the negative trends and put the company on track for outstanding results. In this situation, innovation helped motivate. Throughout Soave Enterprises, many of our companies enjoy the position of market leader. Maintaining this placement requires a company-wide respect for and active nurturing of innovation. Since our founding in 1961, the Soave team has viewed obstacles as opportunities and sought unconventional solutions to the toughest challenges. Let’s continue our own history of embracing and encouraging innovation. Like the inspirational innovators at The Henry Ford, let’s all dare to innovate. The results might just surprise you.
About Anthony Soave and Soave Enterprises Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures. Anthony Soave acquired Ferrous Processing and Trading in 1997 and through it, Soave Enterprises offers a full range of metal recycling services. Soave entered automotive retailing 15 years ago, with the acquisition of a Lincoln-Mercury franchise in Independence, Missouri in 1990. Since that first acquisition, the Soave Automotive Group has grown to a dozen franchises in four locations in Kansas and Missouri. As market leaders in many industries, the Soave family of businesses consistently offers innovative solutions to meet market and client needs. For more information on Tony Soave and Soave Enterprises, please visit http://www.soave.com. Soave Enterprises 3400 E Lafayette Detroit, MI 48207 313-567-7000 http://www.soave.com