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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Business Spotlight: E'tali's Thrift Store Boutique

We regularly feature a Lilburn business. This week, we head to Old Town Lilburn, where E'tali's Thrift Store Boutique is. Check them out this weekend during Lilburn Daze.

E'tali's Thrift Store Boutique is celebrating its first anniversary in business along Lilburn's Main Street. Owner Kimra Kimbrough is a lifelong resident of the area, and wanted to start the business as a way to better the community through fashion and art. It has been difficult, she said, to drum up local traffic to the business. Still, she says, "just to be here in the city for a year is a big deal." To help make it all work, Kimbrough has found other ways to grow support for her vision, including doing personal styling for red carpet events. She then turns around, and puts that money back into her business, including giving back with her nonprofit Kultural Love Fusion and renovating the 100-year-old house that her business is located in…

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