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Tuscaloosa entrepreneur highlights mobile candle‑making classes, market sales and business milestones
Summary
Yolanda Knox, owner of A Ray of Sunshine Candle Company, used a public comment to describe her mobile on‑site candle‑making classes, year‑round sales at the Tuscaloosa River Market, trademarking of her business name and acceptance into a Goldman Sachs program she described for Black women in business.
Yolanda Knox, owner of A Ray of Sunshine Candle Company, spoke during the public‑comment portion of a local meeting to promote her handmade candle business, its mobile on‑site classes and recent milestones, including having the business name trademarked.
Knox said the company makes scented soy vegan candles, wax melts and room and car deodorizers and offers both recreational and professional candle‑making classes. “We specialize in handmade scented soy vegan candles, wax melts, room and car deodorizers,” she said. Knox said she and her team also run mobile, on‑site classes for events, sororities and other groups and that about 80 percent of the business’s income…
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