Hagopian honored on Ellis Island
July 04, 2005

Crain’s Detroit Business
1155 Gratiot Ave.
Detroit, MI 48207

Edgar Hagopian, chairman of Birmingham-based Hagopian & Sons Inc., was
awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor at a ceremony on Ellis Island
on May 14.

The Ellis Island Medal of Honor was created in 1986 to honor the many
ancestral groups who helped build America and is given to people who
have distinguished themselves as citizens. Hagopian began working
full-time in 1953 in his father’s carpet cleaning business.

Hagopian companies support numerous charitable organizations including
the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the College for Creative Studies
annual student rug design competition, a statewide competition in
collaboration with the American Society of Interior Design.

Under Hagopian’s guidance the business has expanded to include three
retail stores, a store in the Michigan Design Center, Hagopian Fire
and Flood Services, as well as Michigan’s largest rug-cleaning
facility.

Hagopian & Sons employs more than 200 people in metro Detroit. Edgar
Hagopian also opened a Roche Bobois franchise in 2003 in Novi.
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