Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Michigan based Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Michigan Food and Beverage Startups
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Banza
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Banza is a food manufacturer that focuses on producing pasta products.
Alerje
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Alerje’s increasing the overall quality of life of those affected by food allergies by combining the IoMT with a digital health approach.
Gordon Food Service
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Gordon Food Service are food service operations such as restaurants like schools, universities, and hospitals.
Green Spirit Farms
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Numerous approaches and investigated various technologies used to grow vegetables using indoor Vertical Farming techniques.
Hop Head
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Hop Head Farms LLC is a Midwest grower, processor, and marketer of high quality aroma
Inductive Intelligence
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Inductive Intelligence delivers a platform for Convenient, Controlled, Safe, and Sustainable smart inductive heating & cooking experiences.
Foodoo.ai
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We developed an AI-based Grab & Go solution which controls expiration dates of ready-to-eat meals in real-time
FoodEpsa
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FoodEpsa is food search application, allows users to search their favorite dishes around them by their own reviews and ratings.
MenuBubble
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Healthy meal delivery service focuses on accessibility and convenience offering ready to warm-up meals palatable to everyone.
True Blue Farms
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True Blue Farms specializes in the production of a variety of blueberries.
Junkless
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Junkless dedicated to making breakfast and snack foods simpler with all natural, common kitchen pantry ingredients you know and trust.
Pet Supplies Plus
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Pet Supplies Plus offers a wide array of pet food, pet products, grooming services and animal expertise.
Little Caesars
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Little Caesars Pizza has been proudly serving delicious products for more than 50 years.
Direct Trade Coffee Club
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DTCC is a different kind of coffee company While they have deep relationships with some of the best suppliers of hight quality green coffee.
Pringles
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Pringles manufactures and sells potato- and wheat-based chips.
Newaygo Brewing
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Newaygo Brewing is an operator of microbrewery and winery that crafts beer, wines, ciders, and more.
Neogen Corp.
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Neogen Corp. is a developer of food and animal safety products.
The Local Kitchen
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The Local Kitchen is a Company That delivers healthy weekly meals to your doorstep.
Dawn Food Products
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Dawn Food Products operates as a global bakery manufacturer and ingredients supplier.
Domino’s Pizza
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Domino’s is the recognized world leader in pizza delivery.
OrdrAI
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OrdrAi provides Text and Voice ordering for restaurant chains.
Continental Services
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Continental Services is a diversified food-service provider serving corporate clients.
Boxed Water is Better
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Boxed Water is Better is a water company that offers an alternative to bottled water.
JLM Manufacturing
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JLM Manufacturing specializes in the manufacturing and co-packing of nuts, candies, dried fruits, and mixes.
North Channel Brewing
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North Channel Brewing offers beer, cider, craft liquor, wine, burgers, BBQ, appetizers.
MorningStar Farms
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MorningStar Farms is a food and beverage packaging services company located in Battle Creek.
Happy Howie’s
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Happy Howie’s produces all-natural, meat treats for dogs.
Kar’s Nuts
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Kar’s Nuts is a food and beverage company in Madison Heights, Michigan.
Dairy Fresh Foods
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Dairy Fresh Foods is a wholesale food distributor located near Detroit.
Red Apple Cheese
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Red Apple Cheese is a market leader in smoked, flavored, and kosher all-natural cheeses.
National Flavors
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National Flavors makes different flavorings used in drinks, frozen desserts, baked goods, confections and processed fruits.
Kalsec Inc
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Kalsec produces natural colors, natural flavor extracts, antioxidants, hop extracts, and nutritional ingredients for the food, beverages.
Ellis Island Tea
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Ellis Island Tea is a manufacturer of an all-natural, antioxidant-rich hibiscus tea.
Coffee Beanery,.
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Coffee Beanery is a Flushing, Michigan-based chain of coffee shops.
Sun Kissed Industries
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Sun Kissed Industries is an emerging leader in the technology and CBD Food & Beverage marketplace.
Chelsea Milling Company
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Chelsea Milling Company is a food production company that offers flour milling services.
Sanders & Morley Candy Makers Inc.
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Sanders is a food & beverage firm specializing in desserts and chocolate production.
BIGGBY COFFEE
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BIGGBY COFFEE is a growing franchise if coffee and other beverages like tea, latte.
BNP Media
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BNP Media company focused on Building & Construction, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, and Package Design & Production and Gaming.
Hungry Howie’s Pizza
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Hungry Howie’s Pizza & Subs, Inc.,is a franchise and the pizza chain in the United States
Green Collar Foods
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Green Collar Foods is a platform that combines indoor aeroponic food production with next generation cloud technology.
Sherwood Food Distributors
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Sherwood Food Distributors is a full service distribution company.
Albie’s Foods
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Albie’s Foods is producing homemade-quality convenience foods for the foodservice and retail industries.
Garden Fresh
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Garden Fresh, which is based in Ferndale, Mich.
Request Foods, Inc.
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Request Foods is a food production company providing skillet meal production services.
Post Foods
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Post Holdings engages in the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of branded ready-to-eat cereals in US and Canada.
Farmstop
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Connecting consumers with their local food systems, Farmstop aims to redefine and simplify how we eat and shop for our daily groceries.
Champion Foods LLC
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Champion Foods is a food & beverages company that offers private label products program.
Brunswick Bowling
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A Muskegon, Mich.-based maker of bowling products
Festida Foods
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Festida Foods is a high volume manufacturer and co-packer of tortilla chips and other salty snack food.
Flatout
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Flatout is a leading manufacturer and marketer of highly differentiated, premium and better-for-you flatbreads and flatbread products
Roskam Baking Company
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Roskam Baking Company is a food production company specializing in seasoning blends, bakery products, and frozen foods.
Pure Food Company
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Pure Food is the cleanest and healthiest protein powder Company.
Affinity Storm Productions
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We are a family of comic gurus who are dedicated to creating spectacular comics full of unforgettablecharacters and fresh stories.
Structural Concepts
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SSC, a maker of temperature-controlled food and beverage display cases for food service establishments and supermarkets.
Cole’s Quality Foods, Inc.
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Cole’s Quality Foods is a food production company that manufactures frozen garlic bread products.
Ilitch Holdings, Inc.
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Ilitch Holdings is a restaurant specializing in food distribution services.
E.W. Grobbel Sons
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E.W. Grobbel Sons, is the country’s premier corned beef specialist.
Van Eerden Foodservice
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Van Eerden Foodservice is a food & beverages company providing fruits and vegetables.
Peterson Farms, Inc.
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Peterson Farms is a food production company specializing in apples, tart cherries, sweet cherries, and cultivated blueberries.
Big Boy Restaurants International, LLC
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Big Boy Restaurants International is a restaurant that offers dining and winning services.
Imperial Beverage
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Imperial Beverage is a food & beverages company providing beer, wine, and spirits.
Chime Menu
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SaaS company providing mobile ordering and analytics
TEAM Schostak Family Restaurants
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TEAM Schostak Family Restaurants is a food & beverages company providing meal, breakfast, and lunch.
Fabiano Brothers
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Fabiano Brothers is a wholesale company that offers beverages distribution services.
Faygo Beverages
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Faygo Beverages is a soft drink manufacturing company that provides a range of carbonated and non-carbonated beverages.
Zoup! Fresh Soup Company
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Zoup! Fresh Soup Company is a restaurant that provides restaurant management and menu development services.
Savorfull
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Allergy free foods delivered to your doorstep to discover, taste & share Founded by CEO @stacygoldberg, nutrition expert
Cherry Republic
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Cherry Republic is a retail company offering gourmet cherry products.
Great Lakes Made
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Shop the online Great Lakes marketplace for makers and small businesses. Order curbside & delivery. Buy & sell nearby market. Free shipping.
Butterball Farms, Inc.
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Butterball Farms is a food production company offering compound and flavored butter.
S. Abraham & Sons
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S. Abraham & Sons is a wholesale company offering snacks, candy, frozen food, and grocery.
Buddy’s Pizza
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Buddy’s Pizza is a widely recognized as the originator of detroit-style pizza.
Canal Street Brewing Co.
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Canal Street Brewing Co. is doing business as Founders Brewing Company, owns and operates a brewery in the United States.
Powers Distributing
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Powers Distributing is a wholesale company offering beverages distribution services.
Natural Health Mall
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Natural Health Mall is an online store that sells Natural and Organic Products in many different categories.
The Gluten Free Bar
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The GFB’s goal is straightforward to provide the best gluten-free protein snacks in the world.
Busch’s Fresh Food Market
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Busch’s Fresh Food Market is a retail company offering groceries in Michigan.
Atwater Brewery
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Atwater Brewery is a privately held company that produces beer.
MicroBEST Laboratory
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A Microbiological Specialist laboratory.
Rockford Package Supply
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Rockford Package Supply sells food packaging materials for wholesale, retail, farming, and agritainment markets.
GKN Hoeganaes
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GKN Hoeganaes is a mining & metals company that produces metal powders.
Unity Vibration Kombucha
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Unity Vibration Kombucha is a manufacturer and producer of Kombucha Tea and Kombucha Beer products.
Alliance Foods Inc
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Alliance Foods is a food & beverages company that provides packaging and consumer product sales services.
Anergen
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Anergen is a brand of hypoallergenic cat and dog food manufactured by Wysong.
Greenleaf Hospitality
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Greenleaf Hospitality Group offers hospitality from lodging and events to dining, retail and entertainment.
Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch
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Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch operates in the USA and provides eggs to major retailers and food service outlets.
Graceland Fruit
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Graceland Fruit delivers food and beverages products such as dried fruit ingredients, juice concentrate and soft-n-frozen.
Swift Australia (Southern)
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Swift Australia (Southern) Pty Limited processes and exports meat.
Michigan Turkey Producers
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Michigan Turkey Producers is a food production company specializing in turkey food products.
Diversified Chemical Technologies, Inc.
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Diversified Chemical Technologies is a chemicals company that produces chemical products.
Eastern Market Brewing
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Eastern Market Brewing is a community-focused craft brewery and taproom in the heart of Eastern Market.
New Holland Brewing Company
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New Holland Brewing Company is a food & beverages company specializing in craft brewing and distilling services.
West Side Beer Distributing
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West Side Beer Distributing is a wholesale company offering alcoholic beverage distribution services.
Suburban Inns
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Suburban Inns is a hospitality company specializing in food and beverage management services.
Michigan Milk Producers Association
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Michigan Milk Producers Association is a dairy company specializing in milk selling services.
Zeeland Farm Services
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Zeeland Farm Services is an agribusiness firm that offers grain & ingredient merchandising, freighting, soybean & vegetable oil processing.
El Rancho Grande
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El Rancho Grande is a restaurant specializing in huachinango, brocheta de filete, and bistec irapuato.
Fudist
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Fudist is a meal recommendation engine that uses macronutrients to determine what foods fit the user’s diet.
