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Apr 03, 2017 04:54PM ● By Makayla Gay
Williams, who spent 13 years at the Greenville-based McCallum Sweeney consultancy, will continue working closely with industry in her new role as the Greenville Area Development Corp’s first-ever existing industry manager.
Apr 03, 2017 04:43PM ● By Makayla Gay
Southern First started with $11.5 million in capital and, Seaver says, “three or four key bankers who had always been in this market.” Today, the bank is the state’s third largest headquartered in South Carolina, with $1.2 billion in deposits.
Apr 01, 2017 02:56PM ● By Makayla Gay
New SCBIO president and CEO Sam Konduros believes life sciences can be a major economic engine for the state, much like automotives or aerospace. The sector offers great potential for the state to further diversify its industrial base.
Mar 01, 2017 05:34PM ● By Makayla Gay
Clemson University recently completed its Core Campus Housing and Dining Precinct improvements. Built on the site of the former Johnstone Resident Hall, the residential facilities were completed in August 2016 and the dining facilities in September 2016.
Mar 01, 2017 05:24PM ● By Makayla Gay
Moonshine. White Lightning. Hooch. White Whiskey. Corn Liquor. Homebrew. Mountain Dew. ‘Shine. If you’re from the South, no doubt you’ve heard of it or may have even known someone who used to make it, though you’d probably never own up to the fact publicly. Until now.
Mar 01, 2017 05:22PM ● By Makayla Gay
The Roy family uses the slogan “Finish Strong” for their half-century-old business. But Roy Metal Finishing Co., which patriarch Donald Roy started during textiles’ reign in the Upstate, seems as if it’s just getting started.
Mar 01, 2017 05:12PM ● By Makayla Gay
Just as surely as workers build your transportation, they build your taste buds, and in South Carolina’s perhaps-too-successful restaurant industry, meal manufacturers are facing the same growing labor demands that other industries do these days.
Mar 01, 2017 05:07PM ● By Makayla Gay
Bacon Brothers Public House, a popular eatery on Greenville’s Pelham Road, has expanded its “hoofprint” to include a location in Sugar Land, Texas, with other potential franchisees in Florida, Texas, and North Carolina.
Mar 01, 2017 04:53PM ● By Makayla Gay
Jim Mazany, the new CEO of Fatz Café says that continued craveable food offerings and genuine southern hospitality are what sets Fatz apart from the competition.
Mar 01, 2017 04:17PM ● By Makayla Gay
The last 10 years represent a period of significant change for the motor carrier industry. Increased federal regulation, rising jury awards, the general economic recession, fuel cost volatility, and an acute driver shortage all converged in the past decade to challenge the trucking industry and also impact the insurance companies which support it.
Feb 01, 2017 06:20PM ● By Makayla Gay
Charlotte-based investment and development firm Proffitt Dixon Partners opened the first five units of its new apartment community, Ellison on Broad, in December.
Feb 01, 2017 04:48PM ● By Makayla Gay
Social media exploded last October when the news broke at the Southern Conference headquarters in Spartanburg : The NCAA just selected Greenville for the Division 1 men’s basketball tournament’s first round, March 17-19, with Furman and SOCON as co-hosts at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena.
Feb 01, 2017 04:39PM ● By Makayla Gay
For many employees, completing the I-9 form process is an exciting time because it means they have landed that job and have arrived for their first day of work. For employers, however, the I-9 form can be a process that is confusing, especially when it comes to determining whether certain identity and employment eligibility documents presented by employees are acceptable.
Feb 01, 2017 03:07PM ● By Makayla Gay
It’s not every day you get to drive a locomotive, a brand-new one, just a mile and a half from downtown Greenville. But on a recent icy-rain day, Republic Locomotive allowed a visitor to do just that, to hop aboard one of its engines, the color of a No. 2 pencil, and take ’er for a spin—up a few yards of track and back again toward the shop, all with a simple joystick.
Feb 01, 2017 02:54PM ● By Makayla Gay
A film-production company, KOOLFLIX, opens a high-end soundstage in Greenville this month, thanks to a veteran actor and videographer who has worked from Times Square to Tinseltown.
Jan 01, 2017 06:39PM ● By Makayla Gay
Craig McCoy was named CEO in June 2015, says his first year on the job was spent learning about the mission of Bon Secours and how that mission is carried out into the community.
Jan 01, 2017 06:20PM ● By Makayla Gay
With 2016 setting the state’s post-recession financial table, economists from the Upstate to the Lowcountry say that despite what might be cooking in Washington, South Carolinians will enjoy sweet goodness from baked-in growth in industry, employment, and international trade.
Jan 01, 2017 06:07PM ● By Makayla Gay
Greenville Business Magazine marks two decades of honoring the region’s Most Influential People in this issue. The selection of our 50 people is a result of staff research and community nominations.
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