2024 Retail Stars
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Change usually starts before anyone says it out loud.
A product line shifts. A strategy evolves. A partnership ends — but expectations don’t.
As a wrap-up to our succession series, retirees share what life is like after selling their businesses.
Before entering the family business, AJ Cada’s early career took him through hospitality, where he worked at a boutique European-style hotel and even chauffeured celebrity guests. But in 2012, he stepped into the aquatic world, joining Cada Pools and Spas to build on a legacy that runs generations deep.
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When former owner Craig Ecelbarger thinks of the success The Recreational Warehouse has had, he simply smiles.
“It’s hard not to smile,” says Ecelbarger, who is now the director of Florida operations after the company was purchased by Watson’s. “It’s like, ‘Wow, we’re good at this.’