In need of an expansion, Coastal Virginia Candle Co., a Gloucester home fragrance company, made the move from The Shops at Hickory Fork to the White Marsh Shopping Center in Hayes. The company’s founder and CEO Sebastian Brock first opened his business in 2018 under the name Coral Bay Candle, Body and Soul, selling candles, soaps, sugar scrubs and lotions. With a rapidly growing customer base who enjoyed his products, Brock quickly found himself spending every day manufacturing products, with little time for anything else, he explained. Ultimately, he made the decision to head back to his original business plan of solely home fragrance, and completely rebranded into Coastal Virginia Candle Co., selling candles, wax melts, diffusers, aroma beads and carpet freshener. After the move into the new, larger space—formerly Mood Exotic Snack Shop—in August, Brock quietly opened the store, focusing on word-of-mouth promotion and the customer base he built while located at Hickory Fork, he said....
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