While employees work hard, he enjoys what they do and believes the business has purpose and meaning. After starting out in a building that was about 800 square feet on Oatland Island, the company moved to a 5,500 square foot building off President Street before acquiring the 40,000-square-foot Wilmington Island location.ĭennard said he regularly gets offers from interested buyers, but he has no plans to sell the business. It will be the fourth office expansion since the company was established in 2002. The restoration of the new building is expected to take about six months. “We’d like to kind of up our game over there,” Dennard said. He is also looking to commission some mural work at the site. There will be some fun thrown in as well.Īs part of “phase two” the new space will eventually accommodate a retail component along with a bee farm and an in-depth bees educational experience, similar to what they do at the Wilmington location right now, where they provided about 4,000 tours last year, Dennard said. That’s not to say Dennard’s future plans for the new location don’t go beyond forklifts and freight. “It’s going to help us in the long term to keep on growing and be way more efficient than what we are now.” “It ends up being the right thing,” Dennard said. The answer was to operate out of both buildings. While he originally intended to move all their operations to the new site, Dennard said they now plan to continue production and bottling at the Wilmington location after the price tag for a full transition came in “incredibly high” and they were forced to scale back. “It’s super inefficient right now because we’re just so crammed in here,” he said. In addition, the building will allow the company to move half the staff, about 50 employees, from the crowded Wilmington Island headquarters into new and improved offices. With about 200 employees and 13 stores located throughout the country, the company’s growing need for additional storage and shipping will be better accommodated by the 65,000-square foot warehouse, Dennard said Tuesday. The Savannah Bee Company recently began renovating the storage warehouse near the Enmarket Arena to accommodate the growing business, after purchasing the building at 313 Stiles Avenue for almost $4.4 million in December 2021. The company’s relatively new scotch bonnet and habanero pepper infused honey, which is “taking off like crazy” is just one of the many products alongside other specialty honeys and a multitude of body care products that will soon be shipped from a new fulfillment center just outside downtown Savannah, according to owner Ted Dennard. 16, 2023 – Honey is hot and the Savannah Bee Company has got Hot Honey.
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