Small Business
She never planned to build a bakery. Her customers had other ideas.
Customer demand turned Sandra Plainer-Molden’s love of baking into a flexible, family-run Pascagoula business. A storefront is not her finish line.
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Small Business
Founder decisions, operating models, customer demand and the people building Coast businesses on their own terms.
Tourism and Hospitality
Visitors spent $3.63 billion on the Coast. Hotels took only part of it.
New 2025 estimates put nearly $606 million of visitor spending in retail and $897 million in food and drink across Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties.
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