Business Notebook

Krispy Kreme is trying three campfire-inspired new doughnuts on a trial basis at participating stores, including all four stores in the Columbia metropolitan area.

The offerings will include Oreo crumbles with a gummy candy worm, marshmellow cream, dipped in chocolate and yellow icing with a candy piece.

The new variety went on sale at some stores Monday and will be available through May 17 at all South Carolina stores, a company spokeswoman said.

Appliance servicing firms combine

Appliance Professional of West Columbia and Prestige Appliance, based in Aiken, have joined forces.

The West Columbia appliance service company is now the exclusive service provider for Prestige Appliance in the Columbia metropolitan market, the companies announced Monday. Appliance Professional has operated in the Columbia community for some eight years.

Prestige Appliance is one of the few full-service appliance dealers in the area that has its own “in-house” service department. It has showrooms in Columbia and Aiken, according to a news release.

SAN FRANCISCO – EBay’s once-loyal merchants are moving more of their business to Amazon.com, saying they get more for their money by selling merchandise via the Web retailer.

Amazon’s pool of merchants doubled to about 2 million in 2014, while the number of sellers on eBay has remained flat at 25 million in the past two years. Businesses that at first set up online storefronts on eBay say they’re surprised how quickly sales surge on Amazon once products appear on both sites.

IN BRIEF

▪  Southwest Airlines Co. earned a record profit last year and the CEO benefited with a 24 percent increase in compensation, to $5 million. Southwest detailed 2014 compensation for Chairman and CEO Gary Kelly in a regulatory filing Monday.

▪  A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that last month’s weak job growth probably was temporary, part of a first-quarter economic slowdown triggered by unusually bad winter weather in the Northeast and Midwest.

▪  William C. Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, estimated that the economy expanded at just a 1 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year.

▪  Two more turkey farms have been hit by bird flu, bringing to seven the number of Minnesota farms afflicted by the virus, state animal health officials announced Monday.

From Staff and Wire Reports.

This story was originally published April 6, 2015 at 11:11 PM with the headline "Business Notebook."