March 19, 2010
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Motawi Tileworks lands contract to produce Frank Lloyd Wright designs

Ann Arbor News, 6/19/2007
Sibling entrepreneurs Nowal and Karim Motawi have grown a two-person tile-making operation into one that utilizes a 12,000-square foot factory in Scio Township, produces 25,000 square feet of artisan tile per year and was recently awarded the sole contract to produce Frank Lloyd Wright tile designs.

Excerpt:

Q: How will you grow the business in the future?

Nawal: We outgrew our last five-year plan in three years, so we are reassessing now. Karim: We will be adding a bigger retail location here and adding some of our products on the outside (of the building). And the Frank Lloyd Wright project is a big, big project for us. Nawal: I'm still not clear on the potential in that for us.

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