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February 12, 2012

All About Blue

The campus indicia war escalates

by Tony McReynolds

posted 9/26/2009

Great Lakes Team Apparel on State Street is all about blue. Literally. When Bob and Mary Duerksen doubled the size of their eight-year-old clothing store by taking over the former Earl of Sandwich space next door in July, they changed the name to All About Blue. Bob says the old name made sense when they first opened in Grand Rapids in 2001, because they sold licensed clothing from schools all over the region. But when they moved the business to Ann Arbor later that year, they got rid of everything that wasn't University of

 
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