Laurelmercantile

Laurel Mercantile Co. sells American-made home goods, apparel, candles and cutting boards through retail stores in downtown Laurel, Mississippi and an online shop. Its affiliate Scotsman Manufacturing Co. makes butcher blocks and countertops in Laurel, with each butcher block assembled by hand.

Customers are shoppers who visit the Laurel stores and buy online. The business earns revenue from retail sales of its own and partner-made goods, and it also manufactures butcher blocks and countertops. The Scent Library, opened in 2022, is built around scent memories and offers candles, wax melts and scent samples.

The business traces its roots to a general store that opened in downtown Laurel in 1901. A partnership of three couples reopened the Laurel Mercantile Co. store on Front Street in December 2016. The Scotsman General Store was added in 2018, Scotsman Manufacturing Co. in 2021 and the Scent Library in 2022. Erin and Ben Napier, hosts of HGTV's Home Town, are among the partners. The company is hiring for welding and fabrication, screen printing, sanding and finishing, and part-time retail sales in Laurel, and it has announced a 10-year anniversary celebration in Laurel on December 5, 2026.

Product: Retail home goods, candles, cutting boards and butcher blocks sold in stores and online, plus manufactured butcher blocks and countertops.