Keeping customers (and their pets) happy drives dogged entrepreneur

Tricia Bolds builds business on passion, guts.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 12:00 p.m. May 20, 2021
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Mark Wemple. Tricia Bolds with Sarasota-based Gulf Coast Pet Supplies says her passion is helping her customers help their pets.
Mark Wemple. Tricia Bolds with Sarasota-based Gulf Coast Pet Supplies says her passion is helping her customers help their pets.
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Entrepreneur: Tricia Bolds

Company: Despite being the daughter of business owners and entrepreneurs, Tricia Bolds wasn’t set on that path, at first, for a career. A Sarasota native, Bolds moved to Los Angeles in 1998 to chase modeling work. She had some success, too, yet the lure of running something on her own brought her back to Florida.

 

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