ORANGE BEACH / BIRMINGHAM – Oct. 18, 2016 – George W. Skipper III, managing partner of Tacky Jacks, today earned the Silver Alabama Retailer of the Year Award in the Annual Sales $5 Million to $20 Million category. The waterfront…
TUSCALOOSA / BIRMINGHAM – Oct. 18, 2016 – Pursuing his high school sweetheart to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, had more allure for Jheovanny Gomez Zuluaga than pursuing drug cartel members as an undercover intelligence operative or going to college in his native…
MOUNTAIN BROOK / BIRMINGHAM – Oct. 18, 2016 – Linda Flaherty, a grandmother of seven, began designing baby linens as a business venture 11 years before she even had her first grandchild. “I started out as a little cottage industry…
MONTGOMERY/BIRMINGHAM – The governor signed a proclamation declaring Tuesday, Oct. 18, as “Alabama Retail Day.” The day celebrates the retail industry in our state and the impact it has on Alabama’s economy and its communities. Retail, including food and beverage establishments,…
MONTGOMERY/BIRMINGHAM – The Alabama Retail Association in cooperation with the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Collat School of Business will honor 15 retail businesses with stores in 39 Alabama cities as Retailers of the Year or Centennial Retailers on Tuesday, Oct….
MONTGOMERY – Alabama’s 11th annual back-to-school sales tax holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Aug. 5, and ends at midnight Sunday, Aug. 7. The state’s four-percent sales tax is waived throughout the state, while sales taxes levied by 293* cities and…
Alabama’s local retailers support the Alabama Department of Revenue’s efforts to enforce the state’s sales tax laws equally. In a direct challenge to the 1992 Supreme Court Quill decision that has allowed online retailers to evade collecting state sales taxes, the…
Alabama Retail Association Chairman Ricky Bromberg has been honored as one of the five finalists for the America’s Retail Champion Award, which a South Dakota ranch supply owner won. “It’s important to get involved in your trade association, whether it’s on…
MONTGOMERY – The National Retail Federation is recognizing Alabama Retail Association Chairman Ricky Bromberg, president of Bromberg and Co. in Birmingham, and Board Member Terry Shea, co-owner of Wrapsody in Hoover and Auburn, for their contributions to advocacy. They are among…
MONTGOMERY – The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) and the Alabama Retail Association in their continuing partnership to limit driver license fraud today presented the Driver License Examiner of the Year Award to Eric Lucas and Driver License Specialist of the Year Award to Cynthia Ash….