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About six years ago, Cleveland Kitchen took the next step in a business started by brothers Mack and Drew Anderson and Luke Visnick with a small sale at the North Union Farmers Market in 2014. They were celebrating an influx of $1 million in venture capital. level.
As of 2017, Cleveland Kitchen had Cleveland Kraut and other products in approximately 500 stores nationwide and was consuming 5,000 pounds of Ohio cabbage per week.
Today, that number has grown slightly, with 12,000 stores (in all 50 states and also available in Mexico, the Caribbean, and, thanks to the US military commissary, eight European countries) and £52,000 a week. We produce cabbage. They are on pace to achieve $37 million in sales this year.
While those stats are impressive, it's another stat that Mack Anderson is most excited about: 80.
That's in addition to the 58 current employees, plus the number of new jobs Cleveland Kitchen will bring to its Carnegie Street production facility, thanks to tax credit support officially announced this week by the Ohio Department of Development. Its production facility is undergoing an expansion, with construction currently underway that will expand Cleveland Kitchen's footprint to 65,000 square feet.
“Not to sound cliché, but it's great to continue to invest in growth here in the city and bring jobs to where it all started and where we come from,” Mac Anderson told Scene. . “We are very pleased that the city, county, and JobsOhio have supported Cleveland's growth on our behalf. John Pinney and TurnCap are not only early investors, but they also supported us throughout the process. He guided me.”
Cleveland Kitchen acquired the Sonoma Brinery in California early last year, and this expansion will see the company bring jobs to Cleveland and provide a fully in-house manufacturing facility on the shores of Lake Erie.
“We really want to own the process of controlling quality,” Anderson said from Florida. In Florida, he met with Target executives and celebrated his mother, Donita's 70th birthday.
“We have to pay tribute to the women who gave us the entrepreneurial spirit.”
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