Starbucks maybe on the retreat, but local coffee brewhouses are advancing. Chelsea-based Bearclaw Coffee is one of these local chains that is picking up where Starbucks left off.
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There may be fewer Starbucks in Michigan these days, but locally owned coffee chains are slinging more espressos and cappuccinos than ever.
East Lansing-based Biggby Coffee reported its best year in 2009, with revenue topping $40 million, even as food and beverage retailers across the state reeled from a 4 percent drop in sales. Biggby recently opened new stores in Birmingham and Ann Arbor and has eight more in development.
Although a Coffee Beanery franchise closed in Southfield two years ago, the Flushing-based company opened 12 stores last year, including one in Miami and three at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, and more are in the works.
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And Ann Arbor-based Bearclaw Coffee Co. has 12 new stores in development and recently opened a mobile unit in Radcliff, Ky.
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