HOMEWOOD – David and Leah Knight, owners of Homewood-based Bandwagon, are Alabama’s 2024 Gee Emerging Retailers of the Year. The sports boutique specializing in custom community apparel as well as lifestyle apparel for toddlers through adults opened in 2021. It caters…
ATTALLA – Wills Creek Clothing, a women’s clothing, gift and home décor boutique, in Attalla is the 2024 Alabama Retailer of the Year Customers’ Choice Award winner. The Alabama Retail Association presented Paige Ledbetter and Leigh Anne Kelley with the…
SPANISH FORT – “Community service and exceptional sales growth” earned Beef ‘O’ Brady’s in Spanish Fort the title of Alabama’s 2024 Retailer of the Year in the Annual Sales $1 Million to $5 Million category, said the former Retailers of…
FAIRHOPE – “Naming any business ‘kind’ begs for the community to find a reason to doubt, to debate the adjective itself,” said the judges for Alabama’s 2024 Gee Emerging Retailer of the Year award. “For Kind Cafe, there simply is…
HUNTSVILLE AND ATHENS – ChurchStreet Family Restaurant & Hospitality Group, a multi-concept restaurant and hospitality group owned by Matt and Stephanie Mell with nine locations in Huntsville and one in Athens, is Alabama’s Retailer of the Year in the Annual…
ATHENS and MADISON – Mother and daughter duo Dawne Douthit and Jessica Douthit Clark began selling women’s apparel and accessories 13 years ago inside established used textbook stores, first in Huntsville then in Tuscaloosa. All five of Dawne’s children –…
Sid and Shea Schroll started “the store with everything for your baby” when they were both 24 years old. At the time, there was no place in Montgomery to buy cribs or other products for infants. “There were no baby…
Alabamians are taking advantage of the savings associated with the state’s back-to-school sales tax holiday. Alabama’s 19th annual back-to-school sales tax holiday is July 19-21. This marks the eighth time the annual tax holiday will take place during the third weekend of…
In the 2024 regular session, your Alabama Retail Association successfully supported the repeal of the annual report requirement for thousands of small corporation and stopped legislation that would have required retailers to accept cash. Your association also convinced lawmakers to pare down country-of-origin labeling for restaurant and…
Act No. 2024-213 By Rep. Margie Wilcox, R-Mobile As of Oct. 1, corporations no longer are required to file an annual report with the Secretary of State under Act No. 2024-213. Rep. Margie Wilcox, R-Mobile, the chief sponsor of the…