Business Archive

The Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce at its meeting April 25 announced its Business, Restaurant and Member of the Month.

About 30 elected officials and business leaders attended a Florida Chamber of Commerce half-day conference in Pensacola April 18 highlighting the importance of trade and logistics to the region and the state. The conference was the third regional rollout for the chamber’s Trade & logistics Study 2.0.

The Navarre Beach Fishing Pier bar, Lagerheads on the Gulf, reopened April 19 after having been closed for about 10 days. County Administrator Hunter Walker and County Attorney Angie Jones advised the management team that their contract prohibited operating the bar without food being served.

After a complaint from William Phillips to Santa Rosa County Commission Chairman Jim Melvin, the county asked operators of the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier to close down a bar opened March 15 until the facility’s restaurant is up and running.

New York (AP) – Dollar stores are feeling the pinch from mounting financial pressures on low-income shoppers.

It has long been gospel among retailers that tobacco pulls so much business into stores, with smokers also picking up water, gum or a bag of chips that dumping it would be a sales killer.

A Gulf Breeze resident has designed an eco-friendly marketing tool that won’t leave a carbon footprint. However, the new branding platform will leave a different kind of print. That is, a sand print of a message made from a portable foam stamp roller.

Vonnie Tolbert owns property on Hwy. 87 South which he has leased for decades to Tom Thumb convenience stores. Tolbert says the company is not renewing their lease, which ends May 31.

Gulf Power has 436,000 customers and in 2013, their electricity was on 99.98 percent of the time. Gulf Power released March 27 reliability statistics for 2013.

The Santa Rosa County Zoning Board at its meeting tonight will consider amending the county’s land development code to allow photography studios to be operated as home-based businesses. The code currently prohibits a number of types of businesses from operating in a residence including fortune telling, massage parlors, modeling studios, photography studios and similar services.