A West Michigan dairy is one of three in the state to recently receive a Midwest grant.
Grand Rapids-based Protein Pints was recently awarded the grant from the Dairy Business Innovation Alliance, or DBIA. Forty-one grants were awarded totaling nearly $4 million dollars for farmstead operations and dairy processing businesses across the Midwest.
Protein Pints is based in Grand Rapids and makes ice cream. The company, founded by two best friends, promotes itself as the first ever protein ice cream with similar nutrients to that of a protein shake or bar. Co-founder and owner Michael Meadows explains what they’ll be using the grant for.
“So right now our flagship product is our pints, but we also want to extend that to a single serve option on a stick. And then the other part of it is this summer we’re launching our event catering business. So going around to different athletic events and kind of popping up and scooping out ice cream there.”
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