family business

Slocum's: unique gifts, strong family history

A family with deep roots and a building with an old history have come together for a unique new gift shop in Buchanan.

One which, fittingly, encompasses all of the feelings of home and family.

For Penny Slocum-Correa, owner of Slocum’s, now open on 111 Main Street in Buchanan, the store has been a venture she’s been dreaming of for a long time. Read more...

Family opens stores in Hills

Hills, IA - A mom and her daughter are fulfilling longtime dreams with their recent business ventures here.

Nancy Lackender opened Inspirations, a quilt and gift shop, at 120 E. Main St., while her daughter, Cassie Putney, runs Morning Glory Bakery & Tea Room in the rear of the building.

Mother-daughter team run Pittsford businesses

New York — Business partners Marie and Nicole Casciani finish each other’s sentences, accidentally wear coordinating outfits the same exact day and fix each other’s hair when it falls in their face. After all, they are mother and daughter.

The pair own and operate Pittsford Wines and Via Girasole, adjoining shops in Schoen Place. Read more...

Mother-daughter team keeps boutique running

Uzma Quader started her retail business five years ago with a gift shop in Town and Country when her eldest daughter, Zara, was 13 years old. Zara immediately began helping her mother with the store.

Three years ago, they closed the gift store and opened Uzma Q, a clothing and accessories shop for women and tweens. Read more...

Family-run Schacht Groves puts personal touch in gift-fruit business

Vero Beach — Though Schacht Groves was founded 60 years ago, the gift-fruit shipping and retail store is the biggest reason why the business has survived.

Traveling salesman Henry H. Schacht had taken a liking to Vero Beach, so in 1950 he bought 50 acres of orange groves west of the town. Over the next 20 years, the farm grew to 400 acres and added other citrus varieties, but was strictly a commercial producer for packing houses until Schacht’s son, Henry F. Schacht, started a gift-fruit business as a hobby. Read more...

Mother-daughter team create successful gift shops

Mother and daughter Marcella Steinhauser and Mary Montgomery have found they make a pretty good team when it comes to making business decisions for their gift shop Steinhauser’s Hallmark, located at 109 N.W. Third in Abilene.

“As far as our buying relationship in store, we are still mother-daughter. Mary’s choices are not my choices, but it’s a good blend,” explained Marcella, noting their differences work positively to keep the store appealing to both the younger customers and retired people as well. Read more...

Women in Business: Erica Clark and Earline Clark

The mother-and-daughter team who runs a floral and gift shop on Forest Avenue know one sure way to keep family relations in harmony. Like good role players on a championship squad, each remains in her respective field of expertise.

Earline Clark, the mother and a retired educator, is the veteran floral designer and arranger. Her daughter, Erica Clark, handles the customer relations and business side of the enterprise that is located about two blocks south of Jackson Hos­pital. Read more...

Sister Team Launches Clip-On Purse

Sandy Christiano’s idea for a hands-free, clip-on purse was conceived by accident. About four years ago, while unloading her young daughter from a car seat, the heavy, shoulder-strapped pocketbook that she was wearing swung around and struck her daughter in the head.

Her vision for a fashionable, yet utilitarian, clip-on purse blossomed into a family business when Christiano and her three sisters, Kenya D’Augustino, Ladene Paulino, and Raylene D’Augustino, launched HipPurse as an online business out of a home office in Rocky Hill in October 2007. Read more...

Outdoor-gear store in Beaverdale has kept its footing as terrain changed

Lexi Wornson's pink Gore-Tex vest is too small to fit her anymore, but she keeps it to remind her of the family history and how their Beaverdale store, Back Country Outfitters, has been on the cutting edge of outdoor gear since she was a child.

Wornson, 28, received the vest when she was 3 or 4. It was a one-of-a-kind creation by an early pioneer of outdoor clothing for a fashion show in New York. At the time, Gore-Tex was new, and no one was making outdoor gear for women, let alone children. When the show was over, the manufacturer, who was a friend of her parents, presented the pink vest as a gift to little Lexi. Read more...

Woman takes family chutney recipe to the public

North Carolina — Five years ago, Margot Walser took her annual chutney canning operation to Raleigh to teach her daughter and two friends how to make the 50-year-old family recipe.

The laborious, two-day process of purchasing and cutting up ingredients, washing jars, cooking and bottling the seven-fruit chutney was becoming too much for the 70-something Walser to continue. So daughter Carolyn W. Johnson was the last hope to keep the family tradition alive. Read more...