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GRBJ: Mosby's pops onto Meijer shelves

A local popcorn company offers more than 120 flavors.
Brian Mosby started Mosby's Popcorn after considering a restaurant startup. Now his product is on the shelves at newly opened Bridge Street Market. Photo courtesy of Mosby's Popcorn.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (GRBJ) - A local product has made its way onto the shelf of the newly opened Bridge Street Market in Grand Rapids.

Meijer’s West Side grocery store opened Aug. 29, and it now sells Mosby’s Popcorn. The startup business began selling popcorn in November 2015 at its Kentwood location.

Less than three years later, Mosby’s Popcorn can be purchased at one of the nation’s largest retailers.

“We do have a very good team of merchants who always try to source products locally,” a spokesperson for Meijer said.

Similar to other popcorn brands such as Cracker Jack, Act II and Pop Secret, Mosby’s Popcorn, which is owned by Brian Mosby and his wife Denise, has many different flavors.

“We have over 120 different flavors,” Brian Mosby said. “We have beer cheese on the shelf at Meijer. It is hard to say which one is most popular, but I would say either French toast kettle or our chi-mix popcorn.”

Mosby said he was working with Michigan State University Extension’s Good Food, Smart Budget program when he was encouraged in April to pitch his product to Meijer representatives. According to the Meijer spokesperson, that was just one part of a long and detailed process of getting the item on the shelf.

“It was a surprise to us,” Mosby said. “We then started getting the ingredients on the bag, barcodes and all the other fun stuff that people don’t think about.”

He said he raised $50,000 of his own money to open the shop.

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