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Bruning’s will move its Beavercreek wine shop, cease retail clock sales
Those who have seen the “Going Out of Business” banner outside Bruning’s Clock & Home Accent Store in Beavercreek or have gotten a mailer from the company announcing it’s liquidation sale should know that Bruning’s owner Mike Yegerlehner intends to move — not shut down — Bruning’s Wine Shop located inside the clock store. I talked to Mike this afternoon, and here’s a story scheduled to run in tomorrow’s Dayton Daily News:
BEAVERCREEK — Bruning’s Clock & Home Accent Store will sell off its inventory of clocks and home-accent items and shut down its retail operations in the coming months, but will continue to service clocks and sell wine from a new location or locations in or around Beavercreek, Bruning’s owner Mike Yegerlehner said Tuesday.
Rising debt, a poor local and national economy, and ebbing demand for purchasing fine clocks led to the decision to end the clock retail business, Yegerlehner said. Bruning’s, which has been selling and servicing clocks in the Dayton area for 37 years, has reached an agreement to sell its 8,000-square-foot building at 1481 N. Fairfield Road to a company that specializes in day-care centers, Yegerlehner said.
The clock-shop owner said his industry is struggling nationwide. “This is not just a Dayton problem,” he said. But the clock-repair business, he said, remains strong, and “has always been our strong suit. It’s the backbone of our business.”
A going-out-of-business sale will get into full swing for the public on or about May 20, Yegerlehner said. He expects to occupy the building until August or September.
Yegerlehner hasn’t yet found a new location for the repair business and wine shop. “Ideally, we’ll be situated somewhere in Beavercreek in close proximity to one another, or perhaps even next door to one another,” he said.
Dan Craven, who oversees Bruning’s wine shop that was added to the clock store in 2008, said he believes wine sales will improve with a separate storefront. Currently, the wine shop must close at 6 p.m. most weekdays because that’s when the clock store closes.
Bruning’s had three stores in the Dayton area — in Miami Twp. near the Dayton Mall, in Huber Heights and in Yellow Springs — before Yegerlehner consolidated operations in the Beavercreek store about a decade ago, Craven said.
Yegerlehner said the wine shop will conduct “business as usual” through the summer, including its regular Wednesday and Saturday wine tastings, while he searches for a new location for it.
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