Made here.

Berkey & Gay's carved Renaissance Revival furniture at Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition put Grand Rapids on the national furniture map.

Grand Rapids crockery dealer Melville Bissell patented a carpet sweeper in September 1876, launching one of America's best-known cleaning brands.

Charles Leonard's icebox had removable linings and flues, so households could finally clean the inside.

Valley City Milling, founded in Grand Rapids in 1884, sold Lily White flour and Rowena feeds across Michigan for nearly a century.

A school-desk maker began production in 1886 and grew into American Seating, which seated classrooms, theaters and ballparks.

The Grand Rapids Cycle Company built Clipper bicycles from 1890 and shipped them worldwide during the 1890s cycling craze.

Joseph Oliver's company built trimmers, jointers and saws in Grand Rapids that many still call the finest woodworking machines ever made.

Dutch baker Edsko Hekman's home-baked cookies grew into the Hekman Biscuit Company, whose Grand Rapids bakery became a Keebler plant.

Six Grand Rapids breweries merged in 1893 into the Grand Rapids Brewing Company, whose Silver Foam became the city's beer.

A $300 butter-and-egg route started in 1897 grew into North America's largest family-run foodservice distributor.

Albert Stickley's Grand Rapids firm launched its Quaint Arts & Crafts line, putting Mission-style furniture within wide reach.

A Grand Rapids machine shop founded in 1903 turned to marine propellers and became one of the world's leading propeller makers.

Lumber dealer James Austin and his son Walter built big, powerful touring cars in Grand Rapids from 1903 to 1920.

John Thomas Batts patented the curved wooden “wishbone” hanger in Grand Rapids in 1904; two years later Meyer May's store was the first to hang its clothes on it.

From 1905 to 1908 the Soules Motor Car Company built cars and light delivery trucks in Grand Rapids.

Steelcase's first hit was a lightweight steel wastebasket that would not catch fire from discarded cigar ash.

Wolverine's horsehide work boot promised 1,000 miles of wear, and the company still makes it in the United States a century on.

Ferris has roasted coffee in Grand Rapids since the late 1800s and was formally established as Ferris Coffee & Nut Co. in 1924.

Koeze began making peanut butter in 1925 and still grinds Cream-Nut in Grand Rapids on the original equipment.

Joseph Knape patented slotted shelf standards and clip-in brackets in 1934, a system still found in stores and homes.

Steelcase built Frank Lloyd Wright's curved steel desks and chairs for the S.C. Johnson headquarters in Racine.

Designer T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings created clean-lined modern furniture that Widdicomb built in Grand Rapids.

Steelcase sized desks in 15-inch increments, a module the whole industry adopted and the root of modular office furniture.

Bill Lear's Grand Rapids company built a light autopilot for jet aircraft that could also fly an automatic approach, winning him the Collier Trophy.

Leo Peters bought the Butterball name in 1951, sold the turkey business but kept the trademark, and turned a Grand Rapids butter company into the maker of embossed pats, roses and Premium Balls.

Wolverine turned its pigskin tanning know-how into soft casual shoes, and the basset-hound brand became a postwar hit.

Seven Lear Siegler engineers started X-Rite in 1958; its X-ray labeling tape led to the densitometers and spectrophotometers used worldwide.

Amway's first product was a biodegradable liquid cleaner, first sold as Frisk and renamed L.O.C.

Hendrik and Fred Meijer put a supermarket and a discount department store under one roof, with one checkout, creating the supercenter.

The first Pop-Tarts were developed and baked at the Hekman plant on 28th Street after a handshake deal with Kellogg's in 1964.

Zondervan, started by two brothers in 1931, published the New International Version in 1978; by 1986 it outsold the King James.

Cascade Engineering, a Grand Rapids plastics molder founded in 1973, started making wheeled waste and recycling carts in 1989 and became one of the largest cart makers in North America.

Research into how people really sit produced the Leap, whose backrest changes shape as the sitter's spine moves.

Started in 2002 out of a one-room storage unit on Grand Rapids' north side, Howies tape is now wrapped on sticks across the NHL, AHL and college hockey.

Universal Forest Products began in Grand Rapids in 1955 selling lumber to builders of factory-made houses. Half a century later it patented a hinged truss that lets a manufactured home's steep roof fold down for the highway.

Founders released its 4.7% session IPA year-round in 2012, and it became the brewery's flagship.

Spun out of John Kennedy's Autocam in 2014, Autocam Medical machines screws, plates, drills and implants for surgical device makers from Kentwood.

Hand-built cedar saunas and cold plunges from a Grand Rapids workshop, delivered fully assembled anywhere in the country.