Mike ilitch biography
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Mike Ilitch
Michael "Mike" Ilitch (born 1929) began the Little Caesars Pizza empire in 1959 with one store in Garden City, Michigan. His business expanded to about 4000 stores by 1999. One of the 400 wealthiest people in the United States, Ilitch invested the fortune he made in his hometown of Detroit. He bought several major professional sports teams, including the Detroit Red Wings (professional hockey) and the Detroit Tigers (professional baseball), as well as other local enterprises in an effort to revitalize the city.
Ilitch was born on July 20, 1929, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Macedonian immigrants. Ilitch's father, Sotir, worked in the automobile industry as a tool-and-die maker for the Chrysler Corp. After graduation from Cooley High School, the Detroit Tigers professional baseball team offered Ilitch a $5000 bonus to sign. Ilitch requested double that amount, which the Tigers refused pay. Instead Ilitch spent four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, from 1948 until
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Encyclopedia Of Detroit
Michael and Marian Ilitch founded Little Caesars Pizza, and the family has been longtime owners of several sports and entertainment franchises in stad. Mike was born on July 20, 1929 to Macedonian immigrant parents. After graduating from Cooley High School, Ilitch joined the Marines, and following his service played minor league baseball until an injury ended that career in 1955. Marian Bayoff was born on January 7, 1933, also to Macedonian immigrant parents. The two met on a blind date in 1954, and went on to marry and have seven children. In 1959, the Ilitches opened Little Caesars Pizza Treat in Garden City, Michigan.
The first Little Caesars franchise location opened in 1962, which paved the way to thousands of restaurants in all 50 states and several countries. In 1982 the Ilitches purchased the stad Red Wings hockey club and implemented changes that revived the struggling grupp. For his contributions to the idrott, Mike was inducted into the Hock
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Mike Ilitch (1929 - 2017)
Mike Ilitch was a once-in-a-generation entrepreneur and champion for Detroit.
He and his wife, Marian, invested their family savings in 1959 to open the first Little Caesars store in Garden City, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. That single mom-and-pop pizza shop grew into the third largest pizza chain in the world with stores in more than 27 countries and territories worldwide, including in each of the 50 U.S. states. The success of the business was built upon the exceptional quality and value of the Little Caesars menu and Mike’s marketing savvy and imaginative ideas in production.
The growth of Little Caesars helped Mike and Marian create other leading brands in the food, sports and entertainment industries.
The couple purchased the Detroit Red Wings in 1982. While the team was known as the Dead Wings at the time, Mike and Marian believed they were a sleeping giant and immediately took charge to turn the team around. By 1997, the Red Wings won the