North Carolina's Coastal Beverage discusses beer, expansion
Coastal Beverage Co. President Tee Nunnelee recently welcomed the North Carolina Business Journal into the warehouse to learn more about the company his grandfather founded on New Year’s Day in 1960. In those days, Coastal Beverage Co. serviced just six counties. Today, they work with retailers in 38 counties.
Shopping centers adding alcohol to drive foot traffic
As shopping centers try to lure shoppers back from the internet and into stores, more are offering alcohol to enjoy while customers walk around and shop. Open-container access licensees at shopping centers, particularly lifestyle ones supporting outside entertainment venues, have become more common in recent years as a traffic driver.
Economists, executives and investors are reading the 2020 tea leaves with heightened scrutiny in an effort to divine what this year holds for the U.S. economy and for Americans across the country. Here are the events they say are most likely to impact and potentially reshape our economic trajectory.
