2025 Retail Stars
Celebrating the retailers whose vision, hard work and customer focus keep the hot tub industry shining


Join 4,000+ spa industry professionals receiving the SpaRetailer newsletter every other Wednesday.
The rift between brick-and-mortar spa retailers and their low-cost online competitors has been well documented. Many traditional hot tub dealers,…
Rachael Pritz worked in a pool and spa retail store in high school and college. While there, the store’s owner,…
Opening a hot tub store in August 2020 looked nothing like Phoebe Briley’s previous 15 years in the industry. Briley…
Multiple LocationsOwner: Brent SlaterTwo Edmonton, AB stores Browsing the help wanted ads during lunch at a boring summer job lead…
Radostina Stoycheva started her career in 2019 as a digital marketing specialist, working on hot tub dealer websites and creating content for SEO, landing pages, emails and ads.
If all had gone according to plan, Ron Perkins would have bought Seven Seas Pools & Spas at the end of 2024.
But like most well-laid plans, things didn’t happen that way.