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Mr. Elkus' brother Andy, a schoolteacher, helped them through the first summer, and within the first two months, they had done as much business as they expected to do in a whole year. "We had lots of interest from customers who would say, 'Hey, this is great — I have a certain family member in this city or that state who would love to have something like this in their area.' It got us to thinking." Conveniently, another broth- er, Barry, together with his part- ner Harold Tieger, co-owned a business consulting firm in Cincin- nati. They and the Elkuses talked about the idea of franchising. Six years later, Mr. Elkus pro- moted himself to co-chairman of the company, sharing his title with Mr. Tieger. They now boast 30 stores in 23 cities across the country. Brother Barry is CEO. The company was only recent- ly renamed Big Sky Bread Com- N Roger and Beth Elkus of Big Sky Bread Company. pany, after the state of Montana, where the Elkuses' hard red wheat is organically grown by "Farmer Bob," a third-generation farmer with a doctorate in envi- ronmental farming. "But the Ph.D. still wears cowboy boots," laughs Mr. Elkus. Mr. Elkus, 37, is pleased Roy- al Oak is one of his bakery's loca- tions. "Detroit is in the family," he says. His cousin Ron Elkus is own- er of the Shirt Box in Southfield. Mr. Elkus's interest is in bring- ing European breads to all the stores and training employees in those baking techniques, as well as teaching them to understand and operate the mill. "Like the Royal Oak store, all the bakeries have a stone buhr mill — two big granite stones that mill the grain into flour every morning when the grain arrives from Montana." 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Kaplan of West Bloomfield was named Michigan Practice Leader of the Human Re- sources Strategies Group at the Detroit-based Deloitte & Touche, L.L.P. Ms. Kaplan will assist clients in a wide variety of human resource issues, including com- pensation, benefits and organiza- tional design. She previously served as divisional vice president of human resources for Kmart Corp. Stacey L. Kaplan . David Wunder David Wunder of West Bloom- field has joined Coopers & Ly- brand, L.L.P., as director of international tax services. Mr. Wunder served as a partner in the Washington, D.C., law office of Evans & Luptak, counseling For- tune 500 companies in the area of U.S. domestic and international tax planning. Susan Langnas Feber, former director of the Israel Teen Mission for the Jewish Federation of Met- ropolitan Detroit, has opened a law office at 24359 Northwestern Highway, Suite 100, in Southfield. Ms. Feber is a graduate of the Wayne State University School of Law. Roger E. 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