Teresa White was one of the first businesses to operate from the Shoals Culinary Center in the 2000’s when she started a small business in Muscle Shoals. Starting with a coffee bar in a giftshop, she was soon asked to add a coffee shop to the new Florence Library. Needing a space to prepare baked goods, the relationship with the Culinary Center was born.
Read MoreMonzyk Innovations(MI) would like to announce the addition of a full time skilled and experienced Analytical Chemist, Marion Cates, to our staff. We are now able to do a variety of analytical procedures and consultations for clients that are accurate, reasonably priced and with a quick response time. All work is supported by a Ph.D Chemist with a career of R&D chemistry.
Read MoreAmericans last year filed paperwork to start over 4.3 million new businesses, a 24 percent rise from the year before and reversing a 40-year decline in entrepreneurship. The increase in “Covid era” companies is on pace to continue this year. The share of workers reporting they were self-employed hit an eight-year high in July.
Read More“We want to make an impact” was the business goal of View 360 Marketing’s owner, Bart Davis. Davis started with SpotOn as a Regional Manager, a business solutions company, about 4 years ago. Since then, he has grown and wanted to offer his clients the complete package with a marketing agency as well. View 360 Marketing was born.
Read MoreWith millions of Americans still out of work and job openings at a record high, policymakers are dealing with an unexpected problem: How to coax people back into the labor force.
Read MoreThey call her “the popcorn lady”, but Vivian Baldwin started Jus’ A-Mayes-N Popcorn in 2017 from her love of gourmet popcorn. Her love affair with popcorn began with a visit to the mall. They had a gourmet popcorn stand where she tried some gourmet popcorn for the first time.
Read MoreMonzyk Innovations LLC is a Shoals-based water puricaon and strategic metals consulting company located in the Shoals Business Incubator. The company was founded by Sally Monzyk and Dr. Bruce Monzyk in 2017. Dr. Monzyk has about 80 patents and has dedicated his life to environmental and economical industrial chemistry and water purification.
Read MoreBradly Talley started Eagle Pro LLC in college as a government contractor handling federal customers. In March 2019, he made the decision to go into the residential, commercial and construction side of the HVAC business with a subsidiary of Eagle Pro LLC - Eagle Pro Heating and Cooling.
Read MoreYou will see a couple of new faces around the Shoals Business Incubator. A new business, Team One LED Signs, now has an office at the Northington Court Complex. We would like to welcome Bud Hale and Clevey White to the SBI family.
Read MoreThe world in 2030 may seem a long way off, but at Capital Group we spend a lot of time thinking about the distant future.
Read MoreRed Clay Farms, located in North Alabama, took a leap of faith and entered the hemp market this past year. They started small, with two acres of product. It has been a long process due to the stringent regulations and changing guidelines in the industry. Red Clay planned to take the hemp back to Virginia for processing but discovered how cost prohibitive transporting that amount of product would be. That is when they started to do a little market research and found Green Acres Organic Pharms.
Read MorePlease welcome Elizabeth McKinney to the Shoals Business Incubator Board of Directors. Elizabeth is originally from Haleyville, Alabama but moved to the Shoals to attend UNA in 2011. After obtaining her Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resources and a Masters of Higher Education Administration from UNA, she has stayed in Florence. Currently, she works for Western Governors University as a Faculty Advisor.
Read MoreLillian Glanton started her music career at 15 years old as a contestant on American Idol. After several years as a performer, Lillian realized her true love for writing music and that became her focus. She started at the University of North Alabama to learn the business side of music.
Read MoreSycamore is a physician recruiting company started by Hamad Husainy and his wife, Kristin, to staff hospitals, prison infirmaries, clinics, and private practices. Husainy is a practicing physician and wanted to recreate and define the business practice of recruiting in the medical field. His new model was transparent between parties with a fixed margin; the cost reduced strategy allowed the company to gain market share and compete with the large firms.
Read MoreGreen Acres Organics Pharm has been busy the last few months. After joining the Sweet Grown Alabama, a non-profit organization that enhances marketing opportunities for farmers by connecting retailers and consumers to Alabama-grown food and agricultural products, they headed to Montgomery, AL for Sweet Grown Alabama Day on July 22, 2020.
Read MoreThe Shoals Business Incubator hosted an Agile Strategies Connecting Enterprises to New Demand (ASCEND) Agile Strategies session at the Davis Complex on Saturday, August 15. The scope of the project is to enhance the use of broadband and technology strategies in the management, promotions and operations of selected small businesses.
Read MoreWe would like to welcome Ace Eaton to the Shoals Business Incubator. Ace has a multimedia agency specializing in video production, marketing, website design, graphics design and photography. He has been at the SBI for about 3 weeks enjoying his new office and use of the DASH Studio for this clients.
Read MoreWhen you walk into the work area for T & T Products, there are boxes of “widgets” covering the floor. However, Harold Webster knows where all the components are for his business. He walks over to a box and pulls out a Tube Fitting that meshes with other hydraulic products that he supplies to a network of US Military Installations.
Read MoreThroughout American history, inventors and innovators have created, shaped and promoted their inventions to shape our lives. Bruce Monzyk has dedicated his life to industrial chemistry and the purification of water. His ground-breaking process of recovering useful, strategic metals and nutrients from contaminated, now recyclable, water has become the focus of his start-up.
Read MoreAs combined innovation, small business development, and startup stakeholders throughout Alabama we wanted to let you know about a pivot Alabama Launchpad is making, and we would love your support in getting the messaging out to our small business and startup communities. We are converting Alabama Launchpad Cycle 3 into a reverse pitch or response competition to better deal with the economic impacts of COVID-19.
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