MOLLY HULSEY PROFILE

Greenville’s electric bus manufacturer debuted on Nasdaq this week after announcing plans in January to go public following the company’s acquisition by Boston investment firm ArcLight Clean Transition Corp. Proterra,... Read More

Two-lane-wide security gatehouses shield Colonial Pipeline’s corporate office at multiple entrances to Sanctuary Park in Alpharetta, Ga. Even on weekends, guards monitor the gate and turn away unwanted visitors. Yet a single com... Read More

Greenville nonprofit financial institution CommunityWorks has caught the attention of benefactors on the national stage yet again. In December, it was McKenzie Scott with a portion of $4.2 billion. Now, CommunityWorks is one of 863 co... Read More

The founder of Wuxi Gissing Auto Parts, known in his company as “Mr. Liú,” had a few unpopular views within China’s auto export-driven market of the 1990s. According to Claudio Calado, the CEO of Gissing ... Read More

Standard Textile’s Union team is usually busy with bleaching, finishing and prewashing what Conde Nast Traveler called “the best bed sheets, according to hoteliers.” Unfortunately for the textile company, it’s ... Read More

During 2020, 66 buildings in Greenville and Columbia earned Energy Star certification. In the eyes of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, these numbers put Greenville in sixth place  and Columbia in ninth place among mid-si... Read More

It was the marriage of Daniel Construction Co. to Fluor Corp. that brought the Fortune 500 giant to Greenville in 1977. Today AMECO leaves the nest under the wing of One Equity Partners, a middle-market private equity f... Read More

Click the arrows or use your keyboard to advance the slideshow. From June 7 to June 13, the only Pro-Am tournament on the Korn Ferry Tour landed in The Cliffs Valley and Thornblade Club after a year-long hiatus. Pro athletes,&nbs... Read More

Spartanburg’s Mobile Communications America has continued its Southeastern expansion across Virginia and into West Virginia with the recent acquisition of Two-Way Radio Inc., a full-service communications provider and certified tes... Read More

Delta Apparel Inc., a Greenville clothing provider of athletic and lifestyle apparel brands such as Salt Life, Coast and Soffe, has purchased a Dallas technology company Autoscale.ai to further leverage the clothing company’s produ... Read More

As the biomedical industry continues to expand in South Carolina, so does Arthrex’s need for a specialized workforce.  Arthrex, a company engaged in the research, design and manufacture of minimally invasive surgical techno... Read More

Greenville-based property management group NHE has added its first conventional apartment community in the Peach State, Lullwater at Riverwood Apartments in Evans, Ga., to its portfolio. In 2020, Money magazine named Lullwater the top... Read More

As the recent expansion of TTI across the Upstate reveals and anyone stuck in quarantine over the past year can attest, household appliances and power tools are hot business right now. “If you think about what you were doing dur... Read More

Global Locations Strategies’ Didi Caldwell, founding principal of the Greenville site location firm, is taking her company’s location benchmarking system to the cloud with a new analytic application called Site Shepherd. S... Read More

Laurens County’s Echo Theater began life almost 100 years ago as a segregated theater, but things only got worse after segregation was banned. From 1996 to 2012, it was dubbed “The Redneck Shop,” a innocuous moniker ... Read More

As the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games steadily approach amid concerns about resurgences of COVID-19, the Indianapolis-based U.S. Gymnastics team has turned to a Greenville company to help keep the country’s top athletes well. Simply... Read More

The Greenville Chamber will add another initiative to its suite of leadership programs in August, this time focusing through the lens of individual development. The eight-week program, called Catalyst, presented by Michelin, will cove... Read More

  Greenville’s Stokes & Company, a CPA firm specializing in monthly accounting and advisory services for businesses, cut the ribbon on a new office at 108 Frederick St.  Local dignitaries spoke at the Wednesday ... Read More

  Rance King Properties has purchased Vantage at Powdersville from Institution Property Advisors, a division of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap. The three-story multifamily community is located on 23 acres... Read More

On-demand car and technology company Spiffy opened its first South Carolina location in Greenville Tuesday with support from Upstate angel investor Venture South. The Raleigh, N.C.-based company was founded in 2014 and offers mobile c... Read More

Things are starting to look up for an office market besieged by vacancies and short-term rent renewals last year. According to a Q1 market report from Cushman & Wakefield and Thalhimer, demand for office space is starting to inc... Read More

Leadership Greenville Class 47 is donating about $9,200 to the Truist Culinary and Hospitality Innovation Center initiatives including a sustainable garden and culinary curriculum that will enable students with disabilities to learn mark... Read More

Gov. Henry McMaster has recognized two Clemson University faculty members for their contributions to scientific discovery, education and public service. Tanju Karanfil, Clemson’s vice president for research and professor of envi... Read More

BMW of North America CEO Bernhard Kuhnt will return to Munich to lead the BMW Group’s domestic market in Germany after four and a half years at the helm of BMW Group Region Americas. The company named current Mini Series Executi... Read More

Pall Corp. is sealing the deal on a promised $30.2 million investment in a new biopharma manufacturing center in Duncan with the purchase of the 85 Logistics Park. The off-market sale of 816 Berry Shoals Road, completed Thursday ... Read More

Customers cruising Ziylo.com might find rubbed bronze firepits, French bulldog Bluetooth speakers of other niche goods for upwards of $50.  Several well-staged photos accompany the lengthy item description and the offer... Read More

Hartness, a new 444-acre urban village in Greenville’s Eastside off Highway 14, is opening the doors to what it calls “an elevated fast-casual dining experience” in the Village Center. Inside, bakers will use a stone... Read More

Tommy’s closes shop Sunday Following an announcement this spring that he would shutter his titular ham house, Tommy Stevenson says Sunday is the last chance to nab some ruby red grapefruit juice and a country ham biscuit in old ... Read More

South Carolina’s life science sector creates twice as many jobs as the average of all other sectors in the state economy, according to a recent study, but whether it can fill those positions is another matter — especially in ... Read More

Atlanta-based staffing firm ExecuSource is moving its Greenville footprint to the Endeavor co-working venue located in Main Street’s One Tower. The Greenville office is one of six locations for the recruiting services firm, incl... Read More

KP Components, affiliate of Denmark-based KP Components Group A/S, is moving into a new 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on Sheriff Mill Road in Easley. Spartanburg-based Marlboro Development Team completed the facility in Ja... Read More

Liberty Bridge may be the most iconic site in the city of Greenville, and city officials might get a chance to benefit further from its accessibility and visibility, say representatives. Greenville City Hall is so cramped, some staff ... Read More

Long before Chris Stone’s retirement in December, Dave Edwards, chairman of VisitGreenvilleSC, knew that the hunt for a new head to Greenville’s growing tourism bureau would be no hasty matter, he told GSA Business Report las... Read More

Airlines lifted social distance requirements May 1. Leisure air travel is trickling back with COVID-19 vaccines and summertime. Direct flights are in vogue and on June 5, Delta’s New York City-bound jets will take to the skies for ... Read More

Local nonprofits seek to shade Swamp Rabbit Trail TreesUpstate, Bike Walk Greenville, and the Greater Greenville Parks Foundation have launched a joint initiative called Shade the Rabbit to plant and maintain an additional 125 trees a... Read More

A webinar moderated by Greenville Technical College President Keith Miller will cover shortages in the local labor market and methods to mitigate growing workforce needs. Laura Ullrich, regional economist at the Charlotte Federal Rese... Read More

Days after the Colonial Pipeline attack, Elliott Davis made public that it is preparing to open its doors to Department of Defense contractors with sensitive information in the stacks. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Ac... Read More

A year after almost all office work shifted to the home front, unintended Zoom disappearing acts and the hiss of unmuted event attendants have joined the ranks of awkward water-cooler conversations and champion pen clickers in the litany... Read More

The Shores of Asbury, a proposed disability-friendly outdoor park and treehouse resort, has been touted as a Lake Hartwell tourism boon by Anderson County officials, but new developments with the project have drawn ire from local residen... Read More

Kerns Trucking Inc., a regional transportation and logistics company based in Grover, N.C., will establish its corporate headquarters in Cherokee County.  The more than $7.9 million investment will create 136 new jobs in the... Read More

Two years ago, the island lying beneath Charleston’s Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge would have looked almost unrecognizable to today’s visitors. A slurry of sediment and water oozed across the island’s southern tip a... Read More

Within months, the first few signs of a county-backed solar farm are set to crop up along 600-acres of farmland along Highway 178. “It’s going to be a big solar operation,” Burriss Nelson, director of Anderson County... Read More

Mauldin’s Xcelerate Inc. signed a non-binding letter of intent to pursue a merger with Greenvills’s HS Pharmaceuticals, according to a news release. The letter of intent allows Xcelerate to begin reviewing HS Pharmaceutica... Read More

The director of the Clemson Center for Human Genetics, Trudy Mackay, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. The organization was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 an... Read More

Following a five-day shutdown, Colonial Pipeline restarted operations Wednesday at 5 p.m. after delivering more than 41 million gallons of gasoline to Spartanburg, Belton, Charlotte and five other East Coast markets. Colonial Pipeline... Read More

The Great Anderson County Fair is celebrating its last week at the Anderson Sports and Entertainment Center starting Thursday through Sunday with sea lions, Ferris wheels and funnel cakes in tow.  The fair is estimated to attract... Read More

The Greenville City Council passed a resolution Monday night that permits City Manager John McDonough and City Attorney Mike Pitts to join the city of Charleston and other South Carolina municipalities in a lawsuit against Airbnb, Vrbo, ... Read More

Limestone University’s Campus Center and Library has been many years in the making — more than nine years to be exact — but the original plans for the building would have looked very different than the 65,000-square-foo... Read More

When SC Biz News spoke with Sam Konduros in April following his decision to step down from his place at the helm of the state life science organization, SCBio, he said that starting new companies from the ground up “seems to be my ... Read More

It’s no secret that demand for industrial real estate boomed during this first quarter. But with demand comes increased costs for construction materials, delaying deliveries further and raising construction prices even higher, a... Read More

On the heels of opening of a new terminal in Charleston, the S.C. Ports Authority today announced plans to expand Inland Port Greer — a pair of developments drawing praise from some players in the manufacturing and logistics sect... Read More

Working from home comes with its own challenges, but nothing is quite like having to live at your workplace. Especially with two grandchildren in tow. But when Pam Meyers moved to Greenville from North Carolina in pursuit of her jo... Read More

For the past few months, the brainstormer behind Abbeville’s incoming Pollinator Park, Ken Carman, has been cultivating the seed crop of what will become 20 acres of native wildflower he hopes will attract pollinators and tourists ... Read More

Employment numbers are looking up for Anderson County. With the addition of 747 jobs in March and a labor force increase of 462, the county witnessed a drop in the unemployment rate from 4.9% to 4.5%, according to a news release.... Read More

When E+I Engineering’s reconnaissance team came to the United States to survey a location for its American manufacturing hub, South Carolina was the top contender early in the game. Then it came down to Anderson County and anoth... Read More

Hughes Investment and the city of Mauldin may have broken ground today on Phil Hughes’ vision for an expansive European-style village a leap away from Interstate 385 and the Swamp Rabbit Trail, but they have been laying the groundw... Read More

CEO Sam Konduros calls his time with SCBio a “four-year honeymoon,” but new opportunities for the life science lynchpin lie on the horizon. Starting in May, Konduros will pass the torch to COO and Vice President Erin Ford,... Read More

Thirty universities from Indiana to India will converge on the Indianapolis Speedway this October amid the simmer of hot rubber and squeal of tires in pursuit of the gold and a $1 million purse. But in this race, only a computer is in... Read More

Last year, data center DC Blox committed to the largest Greenville County investment in five years when the Atlanta company selected an 8.5-acre Global Business Park property for its next 54,000-square-foot data center. According to c... Read More

As the result of a longtime push among S.C. officials for reshoring the medical supply chain, Gov. Henry McMaster issued an executive order he said will strengthen the S.C. Commerce Department’s efforts to recruit and foster life s... Read More

After 18 years with Lockheed Martin Corp., Greenville Site Director Mike Fox is stepping away from the post he has held since 2018, turning the position over to Walt Lindsley, a sustainment operation director at the company. Lindsley,... Read More

After a five-year absence of what industry experts call the “largest economic impact event in the Greenville region,” the Academy Sports and Outdoors Bassmaster Classic will return to Lake Hartwell next March for its fou... Read More

Synnex Corp. and Tech Data, a Clearwater, Fla.-based Fortune 500 company, agreed to merge today in a transaction valued at approximately $7.2 billion including net debt. And to assuage all fears that the combined company, still named ... Read More

Almost a year after buying sprees in the toilet paper section of grocery stores across the country, the executives of an Anderson towel and tissue manufacturer have yet to take a breather, with plans to install an additional through-air ... Read More

Patrons of Greenville’s original sky club, in mourning after hearing their favorite haunt would close on Friday, received some hopeful news today. When Steve Craig, CEO of SC Premier Signs and a Commerce Club regular, caught win... Read More

Harvest Hope CEO Erinn Rowe may be stepping into her new role for the first time, but she’s been lending her leadership to the food bank distributor since 2015 when she joined the board of directors. Since then, Rowe became the ... Read More