Local business prepares for busiest time of year

 

11/17/2015  By Conrad Rowe

 

A Cache County family business, Cox Honeyland, located near Providence is starting its busiest and most profitable stretch of the year.

 

According to Michelle C. Spuhler, a sales rep and book keeper at the store, Cox Honeyland assembles and ships gift baskets containing seasonal decorations and food such as honey and homemade fudge.

 

“Fourth quarter is our biggest time,” Spuhler said. “We are getting ready for Christmas so we make a lot of corporate and personal gift baskets.”

 

Margene Cox, who is the 78-year-old owner of Cox Honeyland, said the corporate orders can get very large in quantity.

 

“Businesses buy 300 or more gift baskets from us at a time,” Cox said.

 

Maleena Jacobsen, who manages the gift shop, said that sell more merchandise in store than by mail order throughout the year, but the gift packages are the items that bring in big amount of money around Christmas time.

 

Cox is a former florist and aims to make everything Cox Honeyland ships and sells in the store aesthetically pleasing.

 

“I can’t even imagine how many hand tied bows I have done, I started in September and I just finished,” Cox said. “I try to make food look beautiful, I try to make gift baskets look more beautiful than flowers that will just die in a week.”

 

The gift baskets can be purchased in the Cox Honeyland store or online at coxhoneyland.com.