Tree City Coffee Expanding to Hudson

Tree City Coffee & Pastry and Summa Health System announced today an agreement to open a Tree City Coffee & Pastry café this December in the Summa Wellness Institute in Hudson, Ohio. Partners Mike Beder, Evan Bailey, and Brian Bower will join together in Hudson to form the joint venture, named Tree City Coffee & Pastry Hudson.

The venture paves the way for Summa Wellness Institute members and consumers in Hudson and surrounding communities to enjoy the Tree City Coffee & Pastry experience. The agreement also brings together two companies with similar values.

“The agreement with Summa Wellness Institute is in line with Tree City Coffee' & Pastry's strategy of growing through strategic community based alliances” stated Evan Bailey, co-owner, Tree City Coffee & Pastry. “We’re very pleased to have found the best partner for Tree City in Summa — a company that shares many of the same values for conducting business in a way that earns the trust and respect of our customers and employees. We look forward to bringing the Tree City Coffee experience to customers in Hudson by offering high quality, organic and direct trade coffees, healthy food options, and the highest quality service.”

Tree City Coffee & Pastry is committed to ethically sourcing and serving the highest-quality coffees and food offerings possible. Tree City operates its parent store in Kent, Ohio, where the company is the premier specialty coffee shop. Through our unwavering commitment to excellence, we bring the true community coffee house experience to life.

Summa Wellness Institute is a medically based adult-only fitness facility, which operates under the oversight of a medical advisory board as part of Summa Health System. The Summa Wellness Institute program is designed to help members reach crucial health and wellness goals through exercise, a quantitative fitness assessment, health education classes, and other
wellness-related services.

Summa Health System is one of the largest integrated healthcare delivery systems in Ohio. Encompassing a network of hospitals, community health centers, a health plan, a physician-hospital organization, a multi-specialty physician organization, research and multiple foundations, Summa is nationally renowned for excellence in patient care and for exceptional approaches to
healthcare delivery. Summa's clinical services are consistently recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (Magnet status), U.S. News and World Report, Thomson Reuters and The Leapfrog Group. Summa also is a founding partner of the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron.