Moe’s Southwest Grill opened July 17, 2015, in The Shoppes at Kissel Village in Lititz, in the former Blockbuster space, after a July 16 community day offering free lunch to every guest and free Moe’s for a year to the first 75 in line.
Digital marketing firm Listrak invited the public to tour its new 93,000-square-foot Lititz headquarters at Millport and Buckwalter roads in June 2017, after consolidating about 300 employees under one roof.
In October 2015, Giant gas stations in Lancaster County began requiring customers paying cash to prepay at the kiosk before pumping, ending the old “pay inside” button, a change aimed at preventing drive-offs.
In January 2015, new owners John and Tina Lukas reopened the former Tim’s Gym on Warwick Street as Iron Fit Gym, adding 40 weekly classes, a smoothie bar, child care and a Saturday open house.
In October 2015, Cargill confirmed 130 job cuts in Lititz, mostly at its Broad Street chocolate plant, and said some West Lincoln Avenue employees could also be affected even though that plant’s job count would hold steady.
In August 2016, Lititz-headquartered Woodstream Corp., maker of Victor traps and Havahart products, named Miguel A. Nistal president and CEO, succeeding 27-year leader Harry E. Whaley.
Peter Kerekgyarto, a partner at Beers + Hoffman Architects in Lititz, was named one of Central Penn Business Journal’s 2015 Forty Under 40 honorees for business growth, professional excellence and community service.
In July 2015, Pennsylvania Community and Economic Development Secretary Dennis Davin brought his “Jobs That Pay” tour to Versatek Enterprises in Lititz to promote the governor’s plans for manufacturers.
The Heller family’s Shady Creek Wreaths at Creekside Farm Market along Route 772 drew loyal holiday shoppers in 2014 for hand-made Fraser fir wreaths, Victorian kissing balls and fresh trees.
Lititz-based educational publisher Demme Learning received a 2016 When Work Works Award, a national recognition for effective and flexible workplace practices based largely on employee surveys.
With live events halted by COVID-19 in spring 2020, Lititz stage-technology firm TAIT made more than 2,000 face shields and thousands of protective barriers for health workers, stores and polling places.
In March 2020, Lititz’s Stoll and Wolfe Distillery, known for its rye whiskey, pivoted to making surface disinfectant and planned hand sanitizer as the coronavirus spread.