High school senior Jerry Kozak's car is broken into in St. Clair Shores, MI. The Thief is caught. Jerry foolishly spends his entire settlement on a hobby-grade t-shirt press.

Jerry heads to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he and friend Ricky Winowiecki begin printing & selling t-shirts out of their dorm, Mary Markley.

Upon graduation, the pair decide to re-launch their company with the help of $16,000 lent to them by family, friends, and former employers.

First commercial t-shirt printer arrives & is installed under questionable zoning law compliance in north Ann Arbor apartment.

Ann Arbor Tees goes legitimate, leasing a 900 sqft warehouse on S. Industrial in Ann Arbor. Jerry & Ricky sleep in warehouse next to equipment for a couple years. It is not particularly pleasant.

The first slow season hits. The Joys of selling blood plasma to meet equipment lease payments is discovered; guitars are pawned.

Business grows, and employees are hired. Jerry & Ricky move out of the warehouse and into a real apartment. Their mothers and girlfriends rejoice.

High profile entertainers, the military, local universities, and Amazon.com are added as clients. High speed printing and embroidery is added, and the company moves to a 12,000 sqft warehouse across the street.

Ann Arbor Tees becomes one of the top 100 small business sellers on the Amazon Marketplace.

The company buys and renovates a 30,000 sqft warehouse on the west side of Ann Arbor, complete with a mural and a neon sign!

The team makes and donates 25,000 face shields to local medical staff & first responders during the pandemic.

Corporate uniforming services are added with on-demand uniform print and embroidery.

Licensed military programs are expanded with the US Army, Navy, and Air Force.

With 70+ Employees and many dogs, the Ann Arbor T-shirt Company prints and embroiders over 1,000,000 shirts per year for clients all over the world!