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Fourth-generation Bealls leader embraces change in business, industry

In looking ahead, Matt Beall looks back to the advice of his grandfather that changing up things is essential to any strong business model.


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 5:00 a.m. August 25, 2023
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Matt Beall joined the family-run Bradenton-based retailer in 2004 and was named CEO in 2019.
Matt Beall joined the family-run Bradenton-based retailer in 2004 and was named CEO in 2019.
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It’d be easy to think a family business launched during World War I that goes back four generations is reluctant to change — something must be working to last that long.  

But Matt Beall, the fourth-generation leader of Bradenton-based retailer Bealls, is guided, in part, by a lesson learned from his grandfather, Egbert “E.R.” Beall. “He told me if you’re still doing what you did last year today, then you will fall behind,’ Matt Beall says. 

 


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Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon is the managing editor of the Business Observer. He has worked for the Business Observer since 2005. He previously worked for newspapers and magazines in upstate New York, suburban Philadelphia and Jacksonville.

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