Holiday spending should be on par with or slightly more than last year – $18.5 billion. Alabamians spent 2.8% more during November and December 2023 than they did during the same period in 2022. For all of 2023, Alabama retail…
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 –…
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…
Act No. 2024-72 By Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale Beginning Oct. 1, governmental entities in Alabama cannot restrict the purchase or use of appliances based solely on the type of energy or energy generation used to operate the appliance. Gov. Kay…