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Pie – A Growing Slice of the Michigan Economy
Grand Traverse Pie Company IS Passionate ABOUT MICHIGAN!
2007 Projection: GTPC Will Drive Over $25 Million into Michigan's Economy
(Traverse City, Michigan) –January, 2007 – Grand Traverse Pie Company is passionate about Michigan! Grand Traverse Pie Company (GTPC) continues to grow it's slice of the Michigan economy in 2007. The Michigan based company currently operates nine Pie Shop/Bakery Café franchises across both Northern and Lower Michigan. It also has firm agreements for 20 additional Michigan locations and several out-of-state locations in Indiana, Ohio, Colorado, North and South Carolina, and Arizona further promoting Michigan and it's native products throughout the United States. GTPC will drive an economic impact of over $25 million to Michigan.
The Importance of Pie to the Michigan Economy:
- Employing over 500 "Michiganders" by the end of 2007.
- The company uses ONLY Michigan fruits – Cherries, Apples, and Blueberries – Over 1 Million Pounds of fruit will be utilized in 2007.
- $15 million in gross sales in its Michigan wide system.
- Michigan companies growing together! GTPC partners with multiple other Michigan companies to support their growth objectives. Family owned companies including Smeltzer Orchard Company in Frankfort, Food for Thought of Honor, Stafford Smith of Kalamazoo, Lipari Foods of Warren, and Alfie Embroidery of Traverse City.
"The agriculture economic impact alone is significant not only to Northern Michigan, but the entire state", stated GTPC creator Mike Busley. "Michigan is the Grand Traverse Pie Company's discriminator. Our customers not only are loyal to us because of our hand-crafted pies and well prepared café cuisine, but because we are passionate about Michigan!
GTPC has built a Michigan destination on pie…great cherry pie from the Grand Traverse Region. But now, visitors enjoy a café filled with fresh baked breakfast quiche, lunch time salads, soups, and sandwiches – all homemade from scratch everyday, and dinner pot pies, made with that same discriminating pie crust that one tastes with every fruit pie.
Visitors to any one of the Grand Traverse Pie Company locations - each a "destination café", will smell the aromas flowing from the open air, from-scratch kitchen, immediately. One will find REAL Michigan made pie and café cuisine. There are nine GTPC Franchise locations throughout the state of Michigan:
- Ann Arbor (734) 997-7902.
- Brighton (810) 225-7437
- Mt. Pleasant (989) 779-2743
- Norton Shores (231) 799-3399
- Okemos (517) 381-7437
- Petoskey (231) 348-4060
- Sterling Heights (586) 323-2743
- Traverse City (231) 922-7437
