our story
Mitten Box was an idea I had years ago when I owned a marketing company in Detroit, Michigan. We represented so many amazing local companies and I thought to myself how fun it would be to bring these products to other people who love Michigan on a regular basis.
But you know how it gets. Life got busier and Mitten Box went on the back burner. We went on to own a local restaurant named after our service dog, Stella, where once again we sourced from as many Michigan-based companies as possible. Years later, I re-visited the idea of Mitten Box in 2024. But that same year I was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, and I thought it wasn’t feasible to put myself into yet another family business.
But as that first year went on, I realized I was far from dead and I wanted to build one more amazing company. This time, however, I wanted to do it with my grown children and husband. And so Mitten Box was born.
Our family takes great pride in bringing you some of the best products that highlight the amazing talents, resilience and taste our state offers. We sample everything and only bring you our very favorites. These are companies that we hope you will also fall in love with and purchase from them again in the future.
In honor of my treatment and the treatments and recoveries of so many other men and women with cancer, we also donate a portion of our revenue annually to Michigan-based cancer research and cancer treatment service providers.
Do you have a favorite Michigan product? We would love to include it in our boxes! Let us know!
Love,
Dorothy, Bob, Marc and Walt