From Interior Design to Building Avenue 8 Cocktails
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This week on SMU Stories, we sat down with Tiffany Jones, founder of Avenue 8 Cocktails and an SMU Cox School of Business MBA alumna.Avenue 8 is a Dallas-based premium cocktail brand making organic, spirit-based ready-to-drink cocktails built on ingredient transparency, quality, and elevated design. The brand is 100% female founded, developed, and owned. Since entering retail in 2025, Avenue 8 has expanded across Texas, earned six industry awards including Best New RTD at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, and picked up national recognition including coverage in Forbes.Before launching Avenue 8, Tiffany spent more than two decades as founder and principal of a high-end residential interior design firm. Earlier in her career she worked in New York and Dallas across banking, fashion, cosmetics, and advertising, experiences that shaped how she approaches brand building today. She earned her undergraduate degree from The University of Texas at Austin and her MBA from SMU Cox.
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