Election News

You Made the Retail Vote Count

June 3, 2014

Thank you for going to the polls Tuesday, June 3, and casting your ballots for candidates who are right for retailers. You truly made the retail vote count with 93 percent of our endorsed candidates, either elected outright, as party…

Alabama Retail Association PACs Make Initial 2014 Endorsements

April 10, 2014

MONTGOMERY – Alabama RetailPAC, the Alabama Retail Association’s state political action committee, has made its first major endorsements in advance of the 2014 campaign cycle. Included are statewide judicial candidates previously endorsed in November of 2013. Alabama Retail Association PAC,…

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Anna Claire and Matthew Stinson Named 2025 Emerging Retailer of the Year

OPELIKA, Ala. – The Alabama Retail Association has named Anna Claire and Matthew Stinson, founders of Stinson Breads of Opelika, as the 2025 Emerging Retailer of the Year “Gee Award” winner. Founded in 2019, the small-town bakery has risen from…

Hissyfits Boutique Named Alabama Retailer of the Year

DOTHAN, Ala. – The Alabama Retail Association (ARA) is proud to announce that Amie Wiley, owner of Hissyfits Boutique in Dothan, has been named the 2025 Alabama Retailer of the Year. The ARA presented the award to store manager Taylor…

Alabama Outdoors’ Eric Ferrell Honored as an Alabama Retailer of the Year

HOMEWOOD, Ala. — Eric Ferrell, president of Alabama Outdoors, has been named the Silver Alabama Retailer of the Year by the Alabama Retail Association. Founded in 1975, Alabama Outdoors has grown into a five-location active lifestyle retailer employing more than…