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Marco's Pizza wants 30-plus new units in 2005

June 27, 2005

MT. PLEASANT, Mich. — During the recent annual franchisee meeting of Marco's Pizza, a 135-unit Toledo, Ohio-based chain, company president Jack Butorac, Jr., told a gathering of about 80 franchisees that the company will open between 27 and 37 new stores in 2005 and will soon roll out a new branding initiative in its marketing materials.

According to a news release, Butorac believes the company can at least double the current number of units in "our current markets of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and we have already signed franchise agreements to add stores in Nevada and Arizona. We will soon be rolling out a new branding effort which emphasizes our roots at Marco's. ... We want to emphasize the Italian heritage of our products."