Business Archive

The Pink Pirates of Navarre donated $20,000 to Baptist Health Care’s mammogram fund on April 27, through their 2021 fundraising efforts.

The fund provides mammograms to uninsured women in the communities Baptist serves.

The community of Navarre has been steadily growing over the past decade.

In 2000, there were around 20,000 people in Navarre, according to census numbers. Now there are more than 41,000 people.

Florida’s unemployment rate dipped to 3.2 percent in March, as workers shift away from gigs at hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues for higher-paying jobs in manufacturing, warehousing and logistics.

With the tragic news of Cassie Carli’s body being discovered in Alabama, the search efforts of friends, family and volunteers ended.

The Navarre community and other parts of Northwest Florida helped in the search effort over the six days that Carli was missing.

Governor Ron DeSantis announced that Florida businesses continue to have robust employment opportunities, a benefit of a competitive and energized workforce where employers have added jobs for 22 consecutive months. Florida’s economic indicators have continued a positive trajectory and are surpassing pre-pandemic rates.

Santa Rosa County is doing comparatively well in its unemployment rates. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity released Florida’s unemployment rates for February 2022, including the state average and the numbers for each county.

Convenience store owners EG Group will begin converting Tom Thumb convenience stores to the Cumberland Farms brand starting in May.

Soft drink. Pop. Coke. Soda. No matter what you call it, these drinks are insanely popular. Coca-Cola, for example, rakes in revenues north of $37 billion a year.

While big name soda brands dominate the United States and the world, craft soda brands are finding their niche.

Melanie Heil, a Pace resident who is from Navarre, got up at 3 a.m. March 10, and her group was first in line at 4:30 a.m. for the Navarre Aldi grand opening.

By all the key indicators, business is in a growth trajectory for Florida, and Northwest Florida.