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Protect Your Business With a Security Framework of Common-Sense Practices and Treasury Management Tools

Oct 04, 2023 12:08PM ● By Scott Sharp

If there is one fact to know about cybercrime and payment fraud, FBI data show that both are growing. Those who are perpetrating these crimes continue to evolve with ever-more sophistication to evade detection.

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Get Everything You Deserve with Medicare

Oct 04, 2023 11:58AM ● By Guy Furay

If you’ve watched any television in the last several years, you’re no doubt familiar with Joe Namath’s appealing messages to Medicare beneficiaries. Namath’s Medicare commercials are everywhere! But he is far from the only celebrity pitching different Medicare choices. You’ll also see Jimmie “JJ” Walker, William Shatner, Joe Montana, and many others as well.

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Looking at South Carolina’s Role In Manufacturing, Honoring Notable USC Alums

Oct 04, 2023 10:19AM ● By David Dykes

Monthly musings... The top five states in Site Selection Group’s Best States for Manufacturing in 2023 are South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. The list closely resembles the Best States for Manufacturing in 2022.

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Best and Brightest Charleston 2023

Sep 21, 2023 04:08PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Welcome to Charleston Business Magazine’s 2023 Best & Brightest 35 and Under! Each year, we celebrate men and women who are making a difference in our state.

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Best and Brightest Columbia 2023

Sep 20, 2023 05:28PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Welcome to Columbia Business Monthly’s 2023 Best & Brightest 35 and Under! Each year, we celebrate young individuals who are making a difference in the Palmetto State.

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Greenville Best and Brightest 2023

Sep 15, 2023 05:18PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Welcome to Greenville Business Magazine’s 2023 Best & Brightest 35 and Under! This is our 29th year of recognizing the business and community leaders who are making an impact in our state. These men and women are young, but they’re committed to making a difference in their communities and the business world. They are attorneys, medical professionals, architects, CEOs, nonprofit leaders, artists, bankers, and more.

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‘Parents Are at the Top of Their Spending for This’ As Costs Rise, Finding Child Care Becoming More Difficult

Sep 12, 2023 05:19PM ● By Liv Osby

Finding child care – and often at an affordable price – is a problem familiar to most working parents. In Columbia, South Carolina, according to one parent, women quip that the minute they know they’re pregnant, they get on a waiting list for day care, even before telling their spouses they’re expecting.

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Entrepreneur and Business Coach Sallie Holder Encourages Women to ‘Embrace What We Want’

Sep 12, 2023 05:08PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Sallie Holder has been an entrepreneur for most of her life – ever since she and twin sister Stacy Smallwood opened their first lemonade stand. One twin was in charge of running the stand, the other of recruiting customers, and they took turns doing the two jobs.

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Bon Secours Wellness Arena Recap of Women's Basketball

Sep 12, 2023 04:42PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Arena-Hosted Tournaments from 2017-2022

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Bon Secours Wellness Arena’s Economic Impact Continues to Grow After 25 Years

Sep 12, 2023 04:32PM ● By David Dykes

The Bon Secours Wellness Arena, celebrating its 25th year this month, has established itself as a leading sports and entertainment venue, attracting a diverse range of high-profile events including family shows, concerts, sports championships, and conventions.

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Bon Secours Wellness Arena Employees Make Things Run Smoothly

Sep 12, 2023 12:57PM ● By Angelia Davis

Not many people can say they shot confetti from a confetti gun in the middle of a show with country singer Garth Brooks on stage. But Nikki Malpass can. In fact, Malpass considers that one of the many highlights in her 24 years at Bon Secours Wellness Arena, where she serves as director of event production.

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25 Years Ago, Bon Secours Wellness Arena Transformed Greenville’s Entertainment Landscape

Sep 12, 2023 11:49AM ● By David Caraviello

Greenville Memorial Auditorium may have been a classic basketball arena, but as a concert venue it clearly had its shortcomings. From a music standpoint, its claim to fame was a 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd show held the night before the plane crash that killed three band members.

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The Biggest Forces Shaping South Carolina’s Health Care Industry Right Now

Sep 12, 2023 10:55AM ● By Walt Cartin and Will Thomas

In the next several years, South Carolina’s health care industry could see increased activity from private equity investors. That projection follows a momentous change in state law that Gov. Henry McMaster signed in May, as well as the continuation of economic trends that are making it easier – relatively speaking – for private equity firms to close deals. The state is also working to increase availability of services that have been underfunded in the past, including behavioral health.

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Long-Predicted Recession Remains at Bay for Now

Sep 11, 2023 05:16PM ● By Tom Burkin

This is from a speech given by Tom Barkin, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, at the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce in Blacksburg, Virginia, in August 2023. Today, I want to speak about the economy and where we may be headed. I caution you these are my thoughts alone and not necessarily those of anyone else in the Federal Reserve System.

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Bon Secours Wellness Arena’s 25th Anniversary Brings Back Scores of Memories

Sep 11, 2023 12:27PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

The Bon Secours Wellness Arena holds a special place in my heart. Twenty-five years ago, I attended the very first concert at what was then called the BI-LO Center, in my job as entertainment writer for The Greenville News.

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Southern Cuisine by D Plans to Take Louisiana Cajun Cuisine Mobile

Aug 23, 2023 05:12PM ● By Eli Kibler

Darren Smith has always had a sizzling passion for cooking. Like many of the best chefs out there, Smith is a firm believer that love is the most important ingredient in food, and he makes that apparent with every dish he crafts.

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Simplicity Community Pharmacyto Partner with Physicians’ Practice to Simplify Health Care Delivery

Aug 23, 2023 04:50PM ● By Licia Jackson

Dr. Sabrina Russ has a vision of what a pharmacy could be. Far from being just a place to get prescriptions filled, it could be a community health hub, where clients get information about drug interactions, smoking cessation counseling or screening tests for diabetes. It could be a place where a patient’s health care needs are simplified through better relationships among patients, doctors, health care facilities, and insurance companies. That’s why Russ has plans for Simplicity Community Pharmacy, LLC.

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Confluence Aims to Bring New Luxury Wedding Venue to Charleston’s North Area

Aug 23, 2023 04:29PM ● By David Caraviello

Right now, it’s just a tract of land off Interstate 26 near Ridgeville, but in her mind’s eye Pauletoria Waltz can see the potential. There’s the 10,000-square-foot building with marble floors, chandeliers, and a grand staircase; a bridal suite, groom’s quarters and warming kitchen; tables and chairs set out for over 300 guests; and all of it on 10 landscaped acres that can be used for an outdoor wedding ceremony. Getting from idea to reality, though, requires managing $3.9 million in start-up costs.

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Social Isolation Increases Mental Health Challenges, Risks of Serious Illness

Aug 23, 2023 01:03PM ● By Liv Osby

Most Americans got a firsthand glimpse into social isolation and the problems it can cause during the Covid-19 pandemic. But for many – especially older adults – that isolation existed long before Covid, and it continues today.

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SC Women in Leadership Launches Effort to Bring More Women to Elected Office

Aug 23, 2023 12:01PM ● By Barbara Rackes

South Carolina Women in Leadership (SC WIL) recently announced More in 2024, an ambitious yearlong push to recruit women from across the state to run for elected office in the 2024 election cycle and apply to serve on public boards and commissions.

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Creating Spaces for Connection: The Importance of Third Places

Aug 23, 2023 11:34AM ● By Racquel Collier

At the heart of a developer’s role lies the profound responsibility to foster vibrant communities. By deliberately incorporating third places into our urban landscapes and developments, we unlock immense value for the community and bolster the local economy. These spaces prioritize human connection, self-care, and overall well-being, making them essential components of our post-Covid world.

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Thoughts on Home Appraisals, Investments in South Carolina

Aug 23, 2023 10:59AM ● By David Dykes

Monthly musings… Lima One Capital, the nation’s premier business purpose lender for real estate investors, announced in July that it eclipsed the $1 billion mark in originations of multifamily bridge loans.

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2023 Legal Elite

Aug 04, 2023 03:53PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

2023Greenville Business Magazine, Columbia Business Monthly, and Charleston Business Magazine honor South Carolina attorneys each year by publishing our Legal Elite section. We’re spotlighting the top vote recipients in 50 categories, all of them voted on by area attorneys, and providing a list of attorneys recognized by their peers.

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