OSPREY – One middle school summer break, while Rogan Donelly was “interning” at the family business, his father Norbert Donelly called him over to where the concrete floor was drying in an expansion area of Tervis Tumbler’s combined manufacturing plant, corporate headquarters and retail store.
“I had to write my name and put my hand print in it and it’s still there – it’s kind of neat,” said Donnelly, who, along with onetime Tervis CEO Hosana Fieber, will own and operate the original Tervis location as a retail store at 928 S. Tamiami Trail in Osprey.
Donelly, whose grandfather bought Tervis and moved the factory to Osprey in the 1960s, will remain a minority owner in Tervis LLC, the new name for JV2 Innovative Products, the Delaware-based company that bought a majority stake in company in August and announced it will move the corporate headquarters to Bradenton…