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Detroit Popcorn Company under new ownership after controversy surrounding racist remarks Company lost partnerships and sponsors due to remarks by previous owner Updated: Tags: Detroit Popcorn Company under new ownership DETROIT – After much controversy the new owner of the Detroit Popcorn Company is happy to bring change to the business that has been operating almost a whole century. The new owner is looking forward to the future. ”I look at this endeavor as a true blessing,” said Kenneth Harris, the new owner of the Detroit Popcorn Company. ”It came totally as a surprise. I never would have ever dreamed in my life that I would own and be the proprietor of a popcorn company,” said Harris. ....
DBusiness Magazine Photograph by J.J. Zielinski As the new decade dawned, Detroit Popcorn Co. was poised for a record year. So, too, was Ken E. Harris, managing director and CEO of The Harris Financial Group in Pontiac. As separate companies owned by different principals, the two enterprises were like sovereign countries. And yet, as strange as life can be at times, in 2020 Detroit Popcorn Co. was put up for sale. “If you had told me at the beginning of 2020 that I would own Detroit Popcorn Co. before the year was out, I would have said that would be amazing. I do love popcorn, but buying the company wasn’t on my radar,” Harris says. “It wasn’t for sale. I wasn’t looking to buy it, and I had enough on my plate as it was. ....