Business Archive

Thanksgiving is here. While the holiday is a time for families and friends to gather for food and, in some cases, football, it also marks an especially busy time for retailers and consumer spending.

With several holidays between the start of November and the end of December, retailers, both brick-and-mortar and online, can expect added traffic as people hunt down deals on gifts.

With Navarre’s growth in population (from 31,378 in 2010 to 41,940 in 2020) has come additional businesses and housing. To fulfill their goals, business and housing developers oftentimes approach Santa Rosa County Development Services, which oversees planning and zoning, with requests to change zoning classifications, expand business operations and create housing which fits within the developer’s vision.

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, a Florida based, family-owned wine and spirits retailer, will open a brand-new location in Navarre on Thursday, November 9, and celebrate the occasion with a big giveaway. The store will be located at 8315 Mikajack Avenue in Navarre.

Attorney General Ashley Moody is taking legal action against a Gulf Coast pool company and its owner for taking large upfront payments from consumers and leaving jobs incomplete. According to an investigation by the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division, Cox Pools of the Gulf Coast, LLC, and its owner, Hillary Bello, accepted payments from at least 27 consumers in exchange for pool construction services, then failed to perform the services as promised—leaving consumers with unfi nished pools and holes in backyards.

Over the past 23 years, Santa Rosa County has seen an influx of people to the tune of around 80,000 people. With people comes a workforce, 91,583 as of September (not including military servicemembers). Having a population ready to work is a major selling point for companies when they decide where they want to set up their headquarters, distribution, manufacturing or stores.

Santa Rosa County’s newest insurance agency office, Brightway, opened Monday, Oct. 16.

The new insurance company office is led by a man with a life similar to that of Forrest Gump. Before getting into the insurance industry a decade ago, Pensacola’s Eric Sewell, 51, grew up in and around the shrimping industry of Bayou La Batre, Alabama.

Santa Rosa County officials joined executives from Hershey’s Ice Cream on Oct. 24 to break ground on the company’s planned 30,000-square-foot distribution center located at the new Northwest Florida Industrial Park @ I-10, just south of the interstate.

In the spirit of transparency, Holley Navarre Water System Inc. (HNWS), recently published that the Articles of Incorporation Amendment vote may not use proxies. After legal interpretation and due diligence, HNWS would like to announce proxies MAY BE used to vote for the Articles of Incorporation Amendment.

In November, a famous group of horses will visit the Pensacola area.
Budweiser recently announced that the Budweiser Clydesdales will be in town for multiple events including the Blue Angels Air Show at NAS Pensacola Nov. 3 and 4.

Each summer brings crowds of visitors to Navarre Beach and Santa Rosa County. These visitors contribute to the local economy and to the Tourist Development Tax, which is Santa Rosa County’s bed tax.