Source: Andrea Weigl, NEWS & OBSERVER, 8/4/11


A Southern Season, Chapel Hill's landmark gourmet food store for more than 35 years, has been sold to a local investment firm with plans to expand the brand throughout the Southeast. 

"This is not a 200-store chain, but it could be a 15-store chain," said Clay Hamner, a Chapel Hill entrepreneur and managing partner of TC Capital Fund, which bought the firm from owner Michael Barefoot this week. Hamner said Charlotte, Atlanta and Birmingham could be future locations.

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