Women in Business: Jan Beale
Montgomery, AL – Jan Beale has successfully transitioned from selling the family machine works business to operating You Name It! embroidery and gift store off Atlanta Highway in Montgomery.
In between those two ventures, the Auburn University accounting major ran an accounting service out of her home.
The Montgomery native sold the family-owned Capital City Machine Works in 1999. From that point she started balancing books for small businesses.
But the number crunching took a back seat to a pastime that soon became a small business.