Could Southern Season become a public company someday?
That’s one scenario that CEO Clay Hamner tells me could be in the cards, as well as a Raleigh location.
The Chapel Hill specialty food store started in an 800-square-foot location in 1975, with its then-owner, Michael Barefoot, the lone employee. Today it does business at a 60,000-square-foot location at University Mall.
The company, purchased in 2011 by TC Capital Fund, a joint venture of Carrboro Capital and Tryon Capital, has added a store near Charleston and is about to open a location in Richmond. According to Hamner, the plan is to get even bigger, starting with a store in Charlotte.
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