SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 2021, KIND CAFE IN FAIRHOPE HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED WITH LOCAL AND STATE AWARDS In Alex Pikul’s experience, “it takes a village to make a business work.” So it has been with Kind Cafe in Fairhope, which…
WITHIN SIX MONTHS, THE 72-YEAR-OLD BUSINESS MOVED ITS MONTGOMERY STORE & OPENED SECOND LOCATION IN WETUMPKA After more than 70 years as a retailer in Montgomery, Tucker Pecan Co. has entered a new phase. In October 2023, owner David Little…
While Christie Howell was a student at Auburn University, she worked part time for the downtown Auburn gift store, Wrapsody. At the time, Wrapsody was a two-store chain that began in Hoover in 2004. The downtown Auburn store opened in…
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…
MEAT BOSS, ROOSTERS, SOUTHWOOD KITCHEN AND NOBLE SOUTH FEATURED ON FOOD NETWORK SHOW In June of 2023, Guy Fieri, host of the Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” (DDD) show, came to Alabama to attend the grand opening of Chef…
THE WOOD FAMILY OWNS AND OPERATES JBT POWER IN DAPHNE AND SEMMES, EMPLOYING 25 Gregg Wood, a former Marine and Army helicopter pilot, left a corporate chief operating officer position in 2011 to be his own boss. “I’d been the…
DALTON PHARMACY GROUP OPERATES NINE ALABAMA PHARMACIES, INCLUDING ITS 121-YEAR-OLD SLOCOMB LOCATION Twenty-year-old pharmacist Jep Paul “J.P.” Dalton set up shop in downtown Slocomb in 1903 to support his brother’s medical practice. The small Geneva County town, known for its…
In 1950, Taylor Gee drove all over the Southeast selling pants to retailers out of the trunk of his Mercury. People digging through the bins for deals on pants at Taylor’s Leeds warehouse dubbed the business “The Pants Store.” Wholesale…
Alabama Retail Comp will return $7.5 million in 2024 to participants as part of its annual retrospective return. “We are pleased to make a significant return to participants,” said Rick Brown, fund administrator and Alabama Retail Association president. “Every dollar…
BISHOP-PARKER FURNITURE CO. REACHES CENTENNIAL MILESTONE IN 2023 “Our founders built this business with the intention for it to last a long time,” said John Parker, current president of Bishop-Parker Furniture Co., a century-old business with two stores in Montgomery….