ROSS NORTON PROFILE

The U.S. State Department has approved another international deal to sell Greenville-made F-16s to a foreign ally. This $8 billion deal with Taiwan was approved by the State Department and delivered to Congress on Tuesday to begi... Read More

ScanSource Inc. today announced that it will sell some of its businesses outside of the United States, Canada and Brazil. ScanSource will continue to operate and invest in its digital distribution business internationally, including its ... Read More

Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System expanded its reach a little farther into Greenville County in late July, opening a 31,000-square-foot medical office building on Woodruff Road. Spartanburg regional COO Mark Aycock said the new f... Read More

With a long career as a marketing executive under his belt, Joe Erwin knows a lot of ways to measure success. For his latest entrepreneurial endeavor, owning and operating the Greenville Triumph professional soccer team, some of the o... Read More

Training programs for the technicians who fix and repair cars at BMW and Mini dealerships are delivered through BMW Group University’s Service Technician Education Program. Gary Uyematsu, national technical training manager for ... Read More

Tariffs — even tariff talk — is no good for business, according to several people intimate with industrial development in the area and state. Hundreds of companies had signed up to testify last week before the Office of th... Read More

The hardest part of Saltwater Kitchen’s soft opening was probably the exterior walls, according to the man who installed it. The outside walls of Rick Erwin’s new restaurant at Haywood Mall is one of the state’s firs... Read More

Culture’s rate of return is better than prime, according to a couple of bankers who participated in a recent panel discussion organized by the Risk Management Association. Lynn Harton and Terry Turner talked about what appeared ... Read More

The Michelin Corporate Foundation today announced a $1 million donation to protect and restore a span of the Reedy River that runs through Greenville’s Unity Park. It is the largest contribution to the park project to date. Gree... Read More

Greenville-based ACL Airshop unveiled a new app called FindMyULD Tuesday at the Air Cargo Europe trade show in Munich, Germany. The new mobile app is designed to enhance data requirements in air cargo transactions as they take place a... Read More

Neil Semcheski told members of the Upstate Air Quality Advisory Committee that vanpooling could be one solution to several challenges the region will face as it grows. Air quality in the Upstate is in pretty good shape, and a recent m... Read More

ACL Airshop CEO Steve Townes opened the company’s new factory this month with exuberance and bold predictions. Thirty-two new jobs and $7.2 million invested in the site are just the beginning, he said. “A lot of jobs ar... Read More

Government, military and Lockheed Martin representatives touted the Greenville F-16 workforce as not only another player in the Upstate’s manufacturing scene, but also a key player in world peace. Officials from the White House ... Read More

Venditio LLC is building a small strip center in Greer with the Green Café Lounge as the anchor tenant. Construction on The Palms at Brushy Creek will start in June or July on previously undeveloped land at the intersection of ... Read More

Employees at one of Central’s last large plants have been told their place of work is closing this summer. A Shaw Industries employee who asked not to be identified said the workers were told they would be paid through the end o... Read More

A spokesperson for the South Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association recently told GSA Business Report that Greenville is quickly becoming a “foodie” town. Maybe that’s why the announcement of the size of the 196... Read More

Lockheed Martin will host a ceremony April 23 to celebrate completion of a new line that will bring production of the latest F-16 Fighting Falcon to Greenville. Lockheed Martin announced in June that it had received a $1.2 billion con... Read More

Hotelier Richard Kessler joined Greenville Mayor Knox White and others Wednesday morning to break ground on the Grand Bohemian Hotel Greenville. Kessler is chairman and CEO of The Kessler Collection, a hospitality brand that owns, dev... Read More

Veterans and companies that want to hire them gathered at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport recently for the South Carolina launch of Edge4Vets, a program aimed at helping people hone their military skills into civilian career... Read More

A year after federal law mandated electronic tracking of trucker workdays, the requirement gets mixed reviews from a complex industry. “The quote-unquote ‘trucking industry’ is such a diverse mix of business sectors ... Read More

Chase plans to expand its retail banking services across the country, including a Clemson branch at 1075 Tiger Blvd. as its first foray into what the company identifies as its Greenville market. A company spokesman said the Clemson br... Read More

South Street Partners, developers and operators of residential private club communities, today announced the acquisition of all seven properties known collectively as The Cliffs. With names like The Cliffs at Keowee Falls and The Clif... Read More

Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the Feb. 18 issue of GSA Business Report. Spending strategies were simpler before credit cards. Even the wallet was simple, without all of those extra slots. To use: open wallet ... Read More

With the workforce small and the number of people in recovery on the rise, people who treat and coach substance abusers say the time has come for hiring managers to see people in recovery as an opportunity and not a threat. There is f... Read More

The customer’s first decision gets things going. White or whole wheat, a Your Pie employee grabs a ball of dough and starts working it. The first pizza maker in a line of them flattens and tosses and stretches the dough onto a wood... Read More

The Elliott Davis firm will move its headquarters a few blocks, where it will have a Main Street presence and a bird’s eye view of Greenville from Falls Tower, one of the Camperdown buildings now under development. CEO Rick Davi... Read More

The largest hotel to open in downtown Greenville since the Hyatt in 1982 will be ready for guests on Jan. 30. Two hotels under a single roof – a Residence Inn and SpringHill Suites — both of them Marriott International hot... Read More

Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the Jan. 21 issue of GSA Business Report. Prisma Health has launched a national search for a new CEO to replace the co-CEOs appointed to lead the organization that was once Greenvil... Read More

Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the Jan. 7, 2019 issue of GSA Business Report. The organization that has dedicated the last 10 years to keeping people in the Upstate talking about common causes has a list of key c... Read More

As the central city in a region of growth, Greenville is coming down with Atlanta-like symptoms. One of them is a sort of interconnectedness that causes, among other things, more people to travel for work from one town to another, or ... Read More

Even the captain of the ship is surprised sometimes to find out how far it has traveled. Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport CEO Dave Edwards was expecting a new study of GSP’s economic impact to show a leap, even a gia... Read More

When Rise Guys P1 Pilsner started hitting Upstate shelves a few weeks ago, it was the latest curve in a tasty and scenic road for Thomas Creek Brewery in Greenville. Co-founder and brewmaster Tom Davis set out to make great beer 20 ye... Read More

A Greenville Technical College graduate who credits the school for shaping her professional life and that of a friend she met on campus has made a $2 million gift to help ensure success of future students at the technical college. The sc... Read More

Hurricane Florence may have put a damper on the 2018 World Equestrian Games, even canceling some of the events, but the horses and people who were there still had to travel to and from Mill Spring, N.C., and many of them passed through G... Read More

Everything except the challenge is small at the MAU Skill School. A forklift operator training course looks much like a driver education course, but more compact with cones and posts indicating the narrow lanes of factory floors. The ... Read More

The empty racks may say more about Treis Blockchain than the full ones. For the moment, the racks stand lonely and mostly empty in 25,000 square feet of space that echoes with footsteps when the rare visitor passes through the Greer f... Read More

The message is getting through: the future promises a lot of good jobs for those with a solid foundation in science, technology, engineering and math. There is a long list of examples of schools, and sometimes the private sector, making ... Read More

USC Upstate made it clear at a ribbon-cutting ceremony that it doesn’t intend to be just another college in the region’s line-up of higher education alternatives. With heavy emphasis on the word “the,” Provost ... Read More

This S.C. Ports Authority celebrated five years of Inland Port Greer with a big number on Oct. 19. With a crowd of political and business leaders watching, the port crew lifted a cargo container from a rail car for the 446,280th tim... Read More

Forty of the state’s fastest-growing companies celebrated their rapid success Thursday night in Columbia, with JobImpulse Inc. of Greenville and Southern Current of Charleston being named the top companies in the state. The... Read More

Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport has a new place for travelers to grab a little peace and quiet on a hectic day. The Escape Lounge had a soft opening recently and will celebrate the new space with an open house on Oct... Read More

Tariffs will cost BMW some $344 million this year, but that cost is to BMW Group and not Plant Spartanburg as reported in other news media outlets. BMW Group CFO Nicolas Peter recently told Automobilwoche, a German magazine ... Read More

Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System has reached an agreement with Community Health Systems Inc. to purchase the Mary Black Health System, which has two hospitals. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year, su... Read More

With 13 offices and 140 employees, HTI already covered a lot of ground, but with the addition of a few square feet, the HR services company intends to reach more square miles. With a Greenville Chamber ribbon cutting and a party to fo... Read More

The city of Greenville announced a new name for its convention center — one that will not change at the end of a contract. What has been known for most of the decade as the TD Center will be called the Greenville Convention Center,... Read More

A delegation from England is in the Upstate today, looking for ways to strengthen ties among the auto industries in the American Southeast and the northeastern region of the United Kingdom. Members of the UK’s North East Automot... Read More

Several Upstate hospitals are opening doors and beds to patients evacuated from medical facilities on the coast, as a result of Hurricane Florence. At least 40 patients have found medical refuge in hospitals in Greenville, Spartanburg... Read More

Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport on Sept. 10 took the next step in accommodating more cargo traffic — and more manufacturers — by ceremoniously breaking the red clay soil already being cleared and flattened b... Read More

Editor's note: Gov. Henry McMaster will no longer be speaking at the conference. The story has been updated. More exhibitors, more speakers, more opportunities. Organizers of the state’s largest manufacturing conference say ... Read More

A California company that makes cable suspension systems for lighting and other industries will open a distribution center and move its home office to Duncan, near the S.C. Inland Port. Griplock Systems declined to say how much it i... Read More

What organizers are calling the “largest commercial airlift of horses ever undertaken in the history of horse sport” is underway with the first 67 horses touching down — but not touching the ground — at Greenville... Read More

The way Jerry Blassingame sees it, the S.C. General Assembly created opportunities for business operators as well as men and women leaving prison with a decisive message to the governor on June 27. The Legislature voted — by 108... Read More

Clemson University and Greenville Health System opened a four-story, $31.5 million building on the GHS Greenville Memorial Medical Campus on Tuesday that will roughly triple the number of students in the university’s nursing pi... Read More

Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport will use about $11 million in FAA Airport Improvement Program funds to expand its capacity to accommodate large cargo planes. The Federal Aviation Authority last month announced more than $... Read More

Airports don’t have to be large to make a significant contribution to the economy of a county or region. While the state’s commercial airports — Charleston, Columbia, Florence, Greer, Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach &md... Read More

TD Bank is enjoying the benefit of free publicity until Greenville’s largest convention center gets a new sponsor. When TD Bank purchased Carolina First Bank in 2011, it also took over sponsorship of what was then known as Carol... Read More

Bank of America in Greenville will move from its iconic location at 101 N. Main St. in Greenville to the Camperdown building under construction at 423. S. Main St. The bank also will move its 300 N. Main St. branch to the new location. ... Read More

The start date for a Liberty Bridge maintenance project in Greenville has been postponed. WSP USA, the engineering firm hired by the city to monitor the project, is working with the contractor to enhance the environmental plan, the city ... Read More

Four of the 10 most affordable places to live in South Carolina are in the Upstate, according to a ranking system used by SmartAsset, a financial technology company that provides personal finance advice on the Internet. Sixth-ranked F... Read More

There is nobility in business, and Reed Watson wants students at Clemson University to know it. He wants everyone to know it. The business world is not operating separately from the rest of society, he said, and it’s not operati... Read More

Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the June 25 issue of GSA Business Report. Mark Johnson is planning the future. Johnson joined the Clemson University faculty as founding director of the Center for Advanced Manuf... Read More

The state Legislature on Wednesday evening overrode Gov. Henry McMaster’s veto of a bill designed to expunge criminal records. Supporters of the new law say it will provide a boost to a shrinking labor pool and improve employment c... Read More