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Coffee and tea shop merges with organic store

By Times Staff Writer
Published September 12, 2007

St. Petersburg

Local Coffee & Tea, an environmentally focused coffee and tea retailer, has merged with Integrity Organics, owned by Susan Huff, who will manage the location at 330 First Ave. S. Huff will expand Local Coffee & Tea's food service, offer cooking classes and run catering from the store. She brings a new menu that includes all-natural, made-from-scratch soups, salads, wraps, healthy snacks, baked goods and a variety of meals to go. Fruit-only smoothies and veggie juices also go along with protein-rich granola. The new food items complement locally roasted coffees, espresso drinks and loose-leaf teas.

St. Petersburg

RoCo Traders marks its fifth anniversary

RoCo Traders, 2115 Central Ave., is celebrating its fifth anniversary with an all-day party Saturday starting at 10 a.m. The store, which carries sterling jewelry, home decor and furniture designed and handcrafted in Mexico, added a line of planters, benches and more for gardens and patios in 2004. RoCo will offer sales prices on some of these items and some new pieces. Music, food and more will begin about 4 p.m. and last until 9 p.m.

Seminole

Partnership pushes education online

Bay Area Business Magazine LLC and K.I.S.S. Marketing Inc. have created a partnership to help the eight-county Tampa Bay area's small-growth to mid-market businesses and entrepreneurial community by promoting education and business online. BABM.com delivers its magazine online, and K.I.S.S. Marketing is joining with it through PinellasLife.com.

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