MOLLY HULSEY PROFILE

On Dec. 2, the British pound climbed above $1.22 for the first time since June. The boost may not mark the end of deflationary woes for South Carolina’s fifth largest export market, but experts believe the Palmetto State can mil... Read More

It all began a decade ago with a pre-set stage. Peter Laroque, president of TD Synnex North America, kept the venue selected for his company’s 2011 Inspire conference just a few days longer than usual. Using the staging and m... Read More

Academy-award-winning Shrek was Kate Swanborg’s first project at Dreamworks Animation studio. Ever since then, she’s hurtled herself through the role of production manager and now, senior vice president of technology commu... Read More

The technological arms race is on in the banking world. Those that can’t keep up are consumed, according to industry experts. Merger and acquisition activity is at an all-time high, according to the CEO and president of the Cons... Read More

Walking in the footsteps of two Furman graduates, fledgling investors can learn the ropes through a Venture South fellowship program at the university’s The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The eight-week Clem... Read More

The Greenville Drive and city of Greenville opened District 356 to the public Wednesday night during the celebration of the city's birthday at a Greenville Drive game at Fluor Field. The pedestrian-friendly remake of Field Street,... Read More

When 16,000 gas stations lining the East Coast were cut off from the Colonial Pipeline last year and drained of fuel, millions of South Carolinians tuned in as the company teamed up with the FBI and delivered a $4.4 million bitcoin ... Read More

When a 32-year-old Ryobi Tools employee suffered a hemorrhagic stroke last August at his home, he was sent to the Prisma Health Roger C. Peace Rehabilitation Hospital to begin his road to rehabilitation.  Nico... Read More

Charleston-headquartered beer company Island Brands will pay homage to its name through a new awareness campaign designed to protect bird habitats on Crab Bank Island. “We are constantly looking for ways to give back to our loca... Read More

This story first appeared in the July 11 print edition of GSA Business Report.   Irmo’s Leo Bugenske loves the outdoors — so much so that the 8-year-old has inspired at least two cutting-edge play parks across hi... Read More

The Consumer Bankers Association’s Executive Banking School, held virturally through much of the panedmic, is going live again for the first time since 2019.  This year, the Washington D.C.-based organization will welc... Read More

This story first appeared in the July 11 print edition of the GSA Business Report. The Mint House may appear to look like any downtown apartment from its glass façade on Falls Park Drive. At 4 p.m. on a Tuesday, no one s... Read More

This story first appeared in the July 11 print edition of GSA Business Report. Last October, Greenville County Council’s finance committee gave a thumbs down to fee-in-lieu tax incentives for a proposed $42 million planned commu... Read More

Class 48 of the Greenville Chamber’s Leadership Greenville program and foster home Pendleton Place have expanded the home’s Youth Resource Center by opening Dee’s Place, a gathering space at the center.    ... Read More

After Greenwood’s Fujifilm plant prepared to shutter operations later this year, a Milwaukee-based commercial real estate firm swooped in to purchase the site. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in an announcement made today, ... Read More

This story first appeared in the June 27 print edition of GSA Business Report. When the Greenville County Historic and Natural Resources Trust’s first project was completed — the acquisition of 170 acres added to Jones Gap... Read More

Manufacturers across the state can now access classes at Michelin’s AP TEC Training School for workforce development.  The program, called “Talents for Manufacturing,” was developed through the company’s p... Read More

The Anderson County Watershed Protection Council is seeking grant applications for projects that will protect or restore water quality in Anderson County, as well as nearby portions of the Savannah River watershed.  Individual gr... Read More

Almost all artwork found gilding the hallways of each Grand Bohemian Hotel comes from the Richard Kessler family private collection. “It’s not just three pieces that go up,” Ron Nagy, general manager of the Greenvill... Read More

BASF Corp.’s Seneca location served as a silver sponsor in the Grace’s Closet annual ‘Fore the Kids’ benefit golf tournament on May 20 and also played a few rounds, winning second place in the tournament.  ... Read More

For years, 84 Lumber’s Christi Powell didn’t work with other women. A former fire and rescue team lead and chemist, Powell turned her talents toward business development at Lowe’s and Builders FirstSource’s... Read More

Travelers disappeared from airports in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic changed the world. Leisure travelers began a steady return in 2021 but business travelers remained grounded. Now travel is back at levels sufficient to drive up ... Read More

Emeline, a boutique hotel in Charleston’s historic district, will debut its Artist in Residency Program on July 29 with Savannah-based artist Stephanie Forbes and her Divine Armor Collection. Featuring a range of work using text... Read More

BMW Manufacturing held graduation ceremonies for its 11th class of BMW Scholars this week while 13 high school seniors completed the inaugural Rising Scholars program.  Started in 2010 for high school graduates, BMW Scholars part... Read More

DartPoints will add more than 17,000 square feet to its Greenville data center, including a power room and electrical service entrance area. The data center also will update electrical systems, including switchgears, generators and ... Read More

Chris Garcia happened to be in the right place at the right time. When COVID-19 broke on American shores, he had stepped to the helm of startup Health Supply US, formed in January 2020. Coming from a family of first responders, the... Read More

Carolina Precision Foods LLC, a venture of Carolina Fresh Foods and owners of Lake Foods, plans to establish operations in Florence County, according to an announcement from the S.C. Commerce Department. The $10 million investment is ... Read More

The nation of Jordan has added eight F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft to the backorder of 128 planes to be made at Lockheed Martin’s Greenville manufacturing and sustainment facility.  “This F-16 acquisition reflects ove... Read More

  Greenville’s gig economy giving some of its delivery drivers a little bit more relief at the pump. Bite Squad, a local on-demand food delivery service, has made its gas discount program pilot permanent as gas prices su... Read More

The S.C. Manufacturers Alliance has hired on Lexington-native Andrea “Andi” Rawl as executive director of the S.C. Automotive Council following the four year tenure of Amy Tinsley. “We are pleased to welcome Andi Raw... Read More

Greenville-based accounting firm Elliott Davis LLC will join forces with Whitley Penn LLP of Fort Worth, Texas, to expand its footprint beyond the Southeast and into the Southwest. Elliott Penn LLP will be the name of the new firm, wh... Read More

“Fill the Cruisers” drive hosted at Bon Secours arena The Greenville Police Department, Bon Secours Wellness Arena and Project Host, a local food security and job training nonprofit, will hold a food drive Tuesday from 8 a... Read More

Judges at the American Black Film Festival’s annual HBO Short Film Award named Talk Black, written and directed by Greenville native Destiny Macon, one of five finalists for the festival’s $10,000 Short Film Award.  T... Read More

Some South Carolina-based suppliers are feeling a burst of demand as domestic content percentages for materials used in public projects are set to go into effect in October.  The Buy American Act – not to be confused with t... Read More

Kansas City-based firm Hunt Midwest is building the first industrial facility in Anderson’s new Evergreen Logistics Park as part of the company’s expansion across South Carolina. The 258,801-square-foot industrial facility... Read More

The call for domestic PPE continues to be answered. At the Greenville Area Development Corp.’s annual meeting held today at the Westin Poinsett Greenville, Health Supply US shared its plans to invest more than $150 million in a ... Read More

Ecommerce giant FedEx will invest $45 million in an additional Anderson County facility expected to create 12 jobs. The 251,000-square-foot, built-to-suit new facility, located at the corner of Highway 81 and Evergreen Road, will help... Read More

The local women’s collective giving organization Greenville Women Giving has awarded $517,495 in grant funding to six nonprofits across Greenville County. May 19 marked the organization’s 16th anniversary, which was named ... Read More

Robert Thomas Iron Design LLC, a modern blacksmithing company, will invest $2.9 million in an expansion of its Charleston County facility, creating an expected 45 jobs over the next three years. Founded in 2013, Robert Thomas Iron Des... Read More

British Columbia’s BC Transit approved a $20 million contract to purchase 10 40-foot Proterra ZX5 electric transit buses and one Proterra Energy megawatt-scale EV fleet charger as it transitions its 500-bus fleet to all-electric ve... Read More

The South Carolina branch of the AARP of has hired Charmaine S. Fuller Cooper as its new state director. Fuller Cooper brings two decades of experience in campaign strategy and management, government relations, and rural, multicultura... Read More

This story first appeared in the May 23 print edition of the GSA Business Report. Bosch has a new project on the rise in Anderson, company President Mike Mansuetti told hundreds of business leaders gathered from across the 10 counties... Read More

A Travelers Rest warehouse will become a production and training hub for Upstate coffeehouse chain Methodical Manufactory well as the long-awaited new home for local climbing gym that closed its doors in 2018. Methodical Coffee, owner... Read More

This story first appeared in the May 9 print edition of the GSA Business Report. Three years into a pandemic some feared would bring death to the department store, behemoths of former Sears properties still litter the state’s sh... Read More

This story first appeared in the May 23 print edition of the GSA Business Report. Last year, the Greenville Chamber had its first annual meeting at the Greenville Drive stadium for social distancing purposes. In 2022, the not-so-ne... Read More

When it comes to igniting the interest of the next generation of talent, the key is to start young say economic developers. The Children’s Museum of the Upstate-Greenville will celebrate on of the region’s largest industri... Read More

Gov. Henry McMaster has awarded the Order of the Palmetto to two prominent figures in the Upstate’s health care field.  Brenda Thames, vice president and chief academic officer for Prisma Health, provost for the Health Scie... Read More

The 60-acre park on the edge of West Greenville's Southernside community has been 83 years in the making after the city's first Black postman, E.B. Holloway, sent in a petition for the park to the city council in 1939. Today... Read More

E.A. Sween Co., a supplier in the ready-to-eat sandwich industry will invest $38 million in Greenwood operations and create an expected 300 new jobs. Founded in 1955, E.A. Sween Co. is a third generation, private company that produces... Read More

Few physicians choose to work in South Carolina’s rural communities, and relatively few have the opportunity to do so.   Out of the 90 health care facilities across the state, only 14 hospitals operate&n... Read More

One of the Upstate’s swiftest-growing towns isn’t even a town at all. Just behind Central, Mauldin and Greer, Powdersville has grown by 32% over the past decade, according to U.S. Census data. Only a few ... Read More

TR development welcomes two tenants in April Two tenants of a new Travelers Rest mixed-use redevelopment project located at the city’s first stop on the Swamp Rabbit Trail opened on April 27. Coldwell Banker Caine’s Tra... Read More

Weeks after DC Blox opened the doors of its Greenville data center on April 12, the company announced plans to break ground on another South Carolina location with a $31.5 million investment. Located along more than 21 acres at the My... Read More

Hartness expands Village Kitchen Farm Hartness, a 449-acre urban village located on Greenville’s Eastside, will launch the second phase of The Hartness Farm, which supplies sustainable produce for the Mill Village Farms&rsq... Read More

German-based Lufthansa Group says it is modernizing its long-haul passenger with new purchases that include seven 787-9 Dreamliner jets from Boeing’s North Charleston plant. Built with lightweight composite materials, the 7... Read More

Erin Nobles closed the door on Silver Spoon Bake Shop’s day-to-day retail sales as ingredient costs rose and employees became scarce. She still crafts cookies, cupcakes, croissants and other baked delicacies for online order... Read More

For those raising the next generation of workforce talent at home, it may be a no-brainer that 12-year-olds are more likely to learn about future career opportunities from TikTok, YouTube or Duolingo than LinkedIn. Yet much of the onl... Read More

Powdersville’s Dolly Cooper Park transformed from an empty field fronted by a recycling center to a kayaking loop with walking trails, sports fields and a disc golf course within five years.  Plans are now underway to build... Read More

Mumford Industries Inc., a post-industrial plastics recycling company and producer of Retrieve sustainable film products, will invest $2 million in a Greenwood area facility expansion and create 33 jobs. “Our expansion is thrill... Read More

Ladson’s Mercedes-Benz plant and a vegetable cannery in Effingham have struck up an unlikely partnership — the first of its kind in South Carolina. During a recent ribbon cutting Gov. Henry McMaster announced that the Char... Read More

Mother’s Day Brunch at Village Kitchen, The Tulip Tree Village Kitchen at Hartness will serve up a special menu (.pdf) curated by Hartness’ Executive Chef Tanner Marino along with a bloody mary, mimosa and bellini bar... Read More

An $10 million funding round will help a Simpsonville biotech company advance the development of a therapy that it says can make damaged tissue supple again. Elastrin Therapeutics, a spin-off company based on 20 years of research at C... Read More

This story first appeared in the April 18 print edition of GSA Business Report. Over a year ago, Magna Mirror’s team told a customer that the company had a “chaotic” warehouse. The customer then deployed an audit ... Read More

This story first appeared in the April 18 print edition of GSA Business Report. Two Upstate companies are in the running as finalists for HGTV’s Ultimate Outdoor Awards for their design of a “poolside paradise” ... Read More

BMW Manufacturing will help preserve and restore eight acres of urban wetlands in Greenville’s Unity Park with a $1.25 million donation. The donation will also support the construction of a series of low-impact boardwalks and ov... Read More

This story first appeared in the April 18 print edition of GSA Business Report. Speculative industrial development across the Upstate has been more than worth the risk for Ohio-based VanTrust Real Estate. “The leasing activit... Read More

To commemorate Earth Day, the Duke Energy Foundation granted $100,000 to various organizations that support access to parks and trails across the states, as well as microgrants to community parks across South Carolina.  The gifts... Read More

Tony Tate thinks that 2022 is a turning point — not just any turning point, but the largest transfer of wealth in human history. That’s one reason why the Easley native has come back to his old stomping grounds after more ... Read More