Rose’s Meat Market and Sweet Shop

What Rose’s Meat Market and Sweet Shop does

Rose's Meat Market and Sweet Shop is a small, privately held food retail business headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, operating from a single physical location under the web domain rosesmeatandsweets.com. Based on its name and format, the company combines two complementary retail categories under one roof: a traditional butcher / meat counter offering meat and related provisions, and a sweet shop selling confections, baked goods, or dessert items. With a headcount of approximately six employees, the business operates at a micro-format, neighborhood scale.

The company's revenue model, insofar as it can be inferred from its footprint, is built on direct in-person retail sales to walk-in local consumers. The input data contains no information about e-commerce, wholesale, catering, distribution partnerships, pricing, customer segments, or product mix. There is no disclosed technology stack, proprietary platform, software product, app, or integration footprint, and no management team, ownership, or investor information is provided. The bulk of the source material in the supplied dataset relates to unrelated entities (an online gaming portal and an Apple-authorized retailer in Singapore) and offers no substantive information about Rose's Meat Market and Sweet Shop.

Operationally, the company presents as a single-site, owner-operated specialty food retailer with a local trade area, no disclosed expansion history, and no public funding, M&A, or partnership activity on record.

Name

Rose’s Meat Market and Sweet Shop

Website

https://rosesmeatandsweets.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Rose's Meat Market and Sweet Shop is a small, privately held food retailer in Durham, North Carolina, operating a combined butcher and confectionery shop with approximately six employees serving walk-in local retail customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Specialty Food Retail (Butcher and Sweet Shop)

NAICS

Meat Retailers (445240), Confectionery and Nut Retailers (445292), Other Specialty Food Retailers (44529)

SIC

Retail-Food Stores (5400)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYCRAHAHAB

Butcher Shops & Meat Markets

Consumer Products & Retail/Grocery & Food Retail/Fresh Food Specialists (Produce, Meat, Seafood)

SECONDARYCRAHAGAE

Charcuterie & Cured Meats Specialty Stores

Consumer Products & Retail/Grocery & Food Retail/Specialty Food Stores (Deli, Cheese, Gourmet, Bakery)

Keywords

• Butcher shop retail
• Bakery and confections
• Specialty meat cuts
• Homemade sweets
• Local food retail

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Rose's Meat Market and Sweet Shop is a small independent retail food shop in Durham, North Carolina, that sells fresh meat products through its meat market counter and sweets, desserts, and confections through its attached sweet shop. The establishment operates as a single-location neighborhood storefront serving local walk-in customers with traditional butcher offerings and sweet-shop items.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Meat Market Offerings

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Regional players

• Local Yocal Farm to Market: Independent Texas-based butcher shop and smokehouse that combines a meat counter with prepared/specialty foods. Comparable to Rose's on the combined butcher + adjacent specialty food retail format, though operating in a different regional market.

Direct peers

• Porter Road Butcher: Specialty butcher that sells pasture-raised, dry-aged meats direct-to-consumer both in-store and online. Comparable to Rose's on butcher-led specialty meat retail, aging program, and farm-to-customer positioning.
• The Meat Hook: Independent butcher shop and wholesale meat provider in Brooklyn focused on whole-animal butchery and house-made charcuterie. Comparable to Rose's in terms of independent butcher retail, cured/specialty meats, and small-scale operation.
• Russ & Daughters: Iconic New York specialty food shop combining smoked fish, caviar, and confectionery/gift items under one storefront. Comparable to Rose's on the dual meat/seafood-counter and sweets/gift assortment format that is a hallmark of the brand.
• Dickson's Farmstand Meats: Independent butcher shop in Brooklyn focused on whole-animal butchery and house-cured charcuterie, with in-store and online ordering. Comparable to Rose's on independent butcher retail, cured-meats production, and small-footprint local-store identity.

Broad incumbents

• D'Artagnan: Specialty meat and game purveyor providing restaurants and consumers with exotic and heritage meats, charcuterie, and pâté. Comparable on specialty/exotic meats and charcuterie retail, operating at national scale.
• Lobel's: Multi-generational New York butcher offering dry-aged steaks, cured meats, and smoked products direct to consumers online. Comparable on premium cut and cured-meat assortment, though operating nationally rather than from a single local storefront.
• Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors: Established specialty meat purveyor supplying restaurants and retail customers across the U.S. Comparable to Rose's as a high-end butcher brand, but operating at far larger scale and across wholesale plus D2C channels.
• See's Candies: Large specialty confectionery retailer selling boxed chocolates and seasonal gifts across hundreds of U.S. shops. Comparable to the Sweet Shop side of Rose's business on packaged confections, gift assortments, and seasonal demand.

Emerging players

• Salt & Straw: Small-batch ice cream and sweets retailer that has scaled from a single Portland storefront into a multi-location national brand. Comparable to the Sweet Shop side of Rose's on craft/seasonal confectionery positioning and the path from single-store artisanal to multi-location growth.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rose%E2%80%99s-meat-market-and-sweet-shop

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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