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Apr 25, 2018 04:05PM ● By Kathleen Maris
Net income was $37.7 million, or 47 cents per diluted share, compared with $23.5 million, or 33 cents per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2017.
Apr 23, 2018 03:21PM ● By Kathleen Maris
This grant program focuses on projects that are outcome-oriented and aim to build stronger entrepreneurs and companies.
Apr 06, 2018 03:26PM ● By Makayla Gay
The housing market across the U.S. is showing signs of cooling off, but right here infamously hot Columbia, the industry looks as if it will remain on fire through the year, with indications that the benchmarks of 2017 may be surpassed in 2018.
Feb 21, 2018 09:44AM ● By Kathleen Maris
The new economic impact represents business activity for the calendar year 2016, which is up 4.7 percent from 2015.
Feb 19, 2018 09:17AM ● By Kathleen Maris
Accelerator for America provides strategic support to replicate successful local initiatives in other communities, with a singular focus on initiatives that connect people with fulfilling work.
Feb 13, 2018 09:56AM ● By Kathleen Maris
For the eighth consecutive year, the State of South Carolina set a record for total export sales in 2017.
Feb 02, 2018 10:00AM ● By Emily Stevenson
Expectations are that South Carolina’s economy this year should be one that hums along nicely, growing slowly but steadily. But economists say challenges remain in filling many jobs with qualified workers and bolstering rural areas, where economic gains can be elusive.
Feb 02, 2018 09:56AM ● By Emily Stevenson
One thing Ex-Im Bank doesn’t get much of: media-ready comments from Palmetto State political leadership or from at least some companies that use the currently hobbled agency.
Jan 30, 2018 12:31PM ● By Emily Stevenson
The Columbia region has improved in four of five major areas of economic competitiveness since this time last year, according to EngenuitySC’s fourth annual Midlands Regional Competitiveness Report.
Jan 16, 2018 03:37PM ● By Emily Stevenson
The week, created to celebrate the rising regional competitiveness of the Columbia Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), will be headlined by the release of the latest Midlands Regional Competitiveness Report and is presented by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.
Jan 11, 2018 02:59PM ● By Kathleen Maris
To accommodate its growth, Carolina's Rigging & Crane will be adding 17 jobs in Richland County.
Jan 10, 2018 02:17PM ● By Kathleen Maris
The acquisition adds public health expertise, data analytics, IT, and other services that complement and expand the Celerian Group’s comprehensive offerings.
Nov 21, 2017 10:20AM ● By Emily Stevenson
With a capital investment of $1.5 million, the company is expected to create 50 new jobs.
Oct 27, 2017 08:39AM ● By Emily Stevenson
At least two life sciences needles seem to be moving—the state’s industry, which is providing an estimated annual economic impact of $11.4 billion—and SCBIO itself, which is growing rapidly as the industry’s primary state association.
Oct 11, 2017 03:17PM ● By Emily Stevenson
Workers on site are moving forward on a range of projects, including a 20-acre public park, residential development, historic renovation for a restaurant and more.
Oct 04, 2017 12:46PM ● By Emily Stevenson
With the hundreds, perhaps thousands of RFPs en route to Seattle, does South Carolina have a chance?
Oct 04, 2017 11:37AM ● By Emily Stevenson
The new 1.7 million square-foot facility anticipates creating 1,700 local jobs as part of Walmart’s commitment to buy an additional $250 billion in products supporting American jobs by 2023.
Oct 02, 2017 10:49AM ● By Makayla Gay
Over the past five years, Kershaw County has seen more than $243 million in new capital investment and more than 600 new jobs. And that’s not even the best news.
Oct 02, 2017 10:44AM ● By Makayla Gay
Since Boeing’s 2009 announcement to move to South Carolina—a $1 billion investment now—aerospace today accounts for $19 billion in economic impact here.
Sep 01, 2017 04:04PM ● By Emily Stevenson
Among the latest entrepreneurs (willing to take a calculated risk in the Main Street District) are creative and successful types, wielding expertise and passion to fuel the resurgence of downtown Columbia.
Jun 30, 2017 02:31PM ● By Emily Stevenson
“You can have the best community in the world, you can have a fantastic workforce, and if you do not have an appropriate site for a building to put this project in, then it’s going to look elsewhere.”
Jun 29, 2017 02:32PM ● By Emily Stevenson
With the state Department of Commerce reporting 98,000 new jobs and $27 billion in capital investment since 2011, pressure is building on the Palmetto State’s workforce.
Jun 01, 2017 09:57PM ● By Makayla Gay
“People start going with the best product in the most vibrant markets,” Ron Anderson says of investors snatching up office towers in Greenville and under-developed mixed-use blocks in Columbia. “They really started pouring into Greenville and Columbia—in Columbia a little bit earlier, in the last 18 months.”
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