by Carly Simpson | Jun 26, 2017 | Counties, Food & Drink, Towns, Work Here
Ed Girrbach has had several careers: Pilot. Airplane sales and marketing executive. Financial advisor. Restaurateur. And for the last five years, potato chip impresario. Girrbach and his son Chris are the co-owners of Great Lakes Potato Chip Company. The company has...
by Carly Simpson | Mar 28, 2017 | Counties, Food & Drink, Towns, Work Here
TRAVERSE CITY: Press On Juice is one of 12 companies from around the state of Michigan that has been selected to receive the Michigan Small Business Development Center’s (MI-SBDC) Best Small Business Award. These companies were chosen from over 5,500 small businesses...
by Carly Simpson | Mar 21, 2017 | Counties, Towns, Work Here |
They say necessity is the mother of invention, but in Stacey Feeley’s case it was horror. When she became a mom, she was diligent about investigating the products she was using with and for her newborn. She discovered that some plastic baby bottles were leaching...
by Lou Blouin | Jan 11, 2017 | Live Here, Work Here
Thirty-one-year-old Erik Florip hasn’t been at this woodworking thing long, but he’s already chased his passion to a pretty “meta” place. Just five years after hacking together his first DIY bookshelf, the Traverse City craftsman is already leaving straight-up...
by Ross Boissoneau | Dec 30, 2016 | Counties, Food & Drink, Towns, Work Here
The coffee is always on at Leelanau Coffee Roasting Company. Not just at the cafe in Glen Arbor, but at restaurants and in stores across the state and the Midwest. The company’s continued growth has led to the expansion of its facilities, which now includes two...
by Amanda Wais | Nov 14, 2016 | History, Outdoors, Towns, Work Here
A small custom sewing company in the U.P. saved a down-home clothing icon, and then somehow made it retro-cool enough for movie stars and Brooklynites. This is the story of Stormy Kromer. Autumn is here, and the days are getting shorter. The rising sun shimmers on...
by Carly Simpson | Oct 5, 2016 | Counties, Towns, Work Here
TentCraft. They make tents. What could be simpler? Except the Traverse City company does far more than that. Tents of all sorts, yes, but also lighting, heaters, rain gutters and other accessories. Chairs, signage, marketing and training are also part of the package....
by Nicholas Marsh | Aug 18, 2015 | Counties, Towns, Work Here
Cities from nearly all over the world have a connection to a Northern Michigan industrial firm that has been operating for well over a century. EJ, formerly East Jordan Iron Works, was founded 132 years ago on Lake Charlevoix in the small Northern Michigan town of...
by mynorthmedia | Jul 28, 2015 | Counties, Towns
MyNorth News Service (Press Release provided by Baker College) CADILLAC: Baker College of Cadillac students in the computer aided design (CAD) program are angling to help a Manistee County inventor bring his patent-pending fishing rod holder to market and netting...
