Peanut Butter * Roasted Nuts * Chocolates * Established 1910
Every year we use the fresh Michigan apple crop — Jonathan apples, first, then Fuji’s — to make fantasic caramel apples for sale at our two local stores. The last of this year’s apples (slightly below our quality standards) just got moved to the lunch room for our employees to eat up. It is a lot of work to hand make and sell 14,000 apples in 4 weeks, but a lot of fun, too. I’m already looking forward to next year.
Koeze Company was founded in 1910 by my great-grandfather, Sibbele Koeze, as a wholesale grocer selling produce, butter, and eggs to small stores around Grand Rapids, Michigan. His son, Albertus Koeze, took over the business about 1918. In 1925 Albertus purchased a local peanut butter company, and from then until today peanut butter and roasted nuts have been part of Koeze’s. My father and mother, A. Scott and Ruth Koeze, began making confections in the 1980’s. My mother retired in the early ’90’s, my father in the late ’90’s, and since then I (Jeff Koeze) have worked to continue our traditions of great products and great service.
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