Video announcement Photos upon request Media releases for the individual winners linked below The Alabama Retail Association this year honored six retail businesses with operations in eight Alabama cities as part of its Retailers of the Year awards program. Together,…
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 –…
ASHLAND – The Runyan family has been operating Planters Hardware & Building Inc. on the square in downtown Ashland since 1916. The Garrett family founded the business in the late 1800s and named it for the planters who would buy…
SLOCOMB – For four generations, the Dalton name has been associated with the pharmacy industry in Alabama. Twenty-year-old pharmacist Jep Paul “J.P.” Dalton set up shop in downtown Slocomb in 1903 to support his brother’s medical practice. Thursday, the Dalton…
Video announcement Photos upon request Media releases for the individual winners linked below The Alabama Retail Association this year honored 12 retail businesses with operations in 13 Alabama cities as Retailers of the Year. Together, these businesses employ more than…