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Ross Norton is the Editor of GSA Business Report. He has worked as a writer, editor and media relations specialist for 30 years in Georgia and South Carolina. In addition to newspapers, his posts have included public information officer at Clemson University and public relations specialist for AnMed Health.
Jul 23, 2021
Prestage Farms of South Carolina LLC, a division of Prestage Farms, plans to construct a new processing facility in Kershaw County, a $150 million investment the company says will create 292 new jobs. The new facility, located at the ... Read More
Jul 23, 2021
BRN Sleep Products, a manufacturer and supplier of bedding products, today announced plans to create 300 new jobs in Orangeburg County by establishing new operations through a $4.3 million investment. Founded in Turkey in 2006, BRN Sl... Read More
Jul 23, 2021
Barnwell PV 1, a solar solutions company, announced plans Thursday to invest $75 million in a Barnwell County facility. Founded in 2010, Barnwell PV 1 LLC is a developer of renewable energy generation facilities, according to a news r... Read More
Jul 02, 2021
The George Dean Johnson Jr. College of Business and Economics at USC Upstate has launched a new academic center designed to leverage the university’s resources to advance the economic development and well being of the Upstate. T... Read More
Jul 01, 2021
Food and beverage company Nestlé USA has unveiled plans to expand operations in Cherokee County. The $100 million investment will create approximately 160 new jobs. A division of Nestlé S.A., headquartered in Vevey, Swit... Read More
Jun 30, 2021
Greenwood County has kicked off an effort to make broadband service more widely available in the community. VisionGreenwood, an old organization with a new name, recently launched Closing the Gap speed test to collect real-time intern... Read More
Jun 23, 2021
The largest health care system in the state and a global giant in manufacturing and technology are teaming up for a 10-year strategic relationship they say will bring better health to the state and help develop a more highly skilled work... Read More
Jun 16, 2021
The University of South Carolina Upstate’s Mary Black School of Nursing has been awarded a four-year, $1.95 million grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration that will support the school’s Holistic O... Read More
Jun 08, 2021
Gov. Henry McMaster today announced a partnership between South Carolina's technical colleges and the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce to provide training opportunities for unemployed individuals in the state. The initiati... Read More
Jun 04, 2021
Amaryllis Counseling, an agency designed to provide affirmative mental health therapy targeted, but not limited to, the LGBTQ community in the Upstate, has formed an offshoot organization, 864Pride, to elevate quality care for the popula... Read More
May 28, 2021
Bon Secours St. Francis plans to debut a new mobile medial unit soon to give the health system another way to deliver primary care services to communities that aren’t receiving care in sufficient numbers at traditional facilities. ... Read More
May 26, 2021
The Easley YMCA announced a $3 million capital campaign on Tuesday to build new facilities on the same grounds where generations of Y members have participated in the organization’s activities since 1960. The campaign is part of... Read More
May 25, 2021
A construction project that will bring a 100,000-square-foot flexible packaging facility to Orangeburg is underway, led by Frampton Construction Co. LLC. Brookwood Capital Partners is developer for the Indevco Plastics industrial project... Read More
May 20, 2021
Spartanburg Community College, OneSpartanburg Inc., and the Bringing Back the ’Burg Business Recovery Task Force have joined forces to make attending college at SCC more affordable through institutional scholarships, virtually elim... Read More
May 20, 2021
The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville has signed an institutional partnership with the American Medical Student Association, granting the school’s medical students free memberships and benefits with AMSA. ... Read More
May 19, 2021
The child slavery prevention program of Set Free Alliance, a Greenville-based non-profit humanitarian organization, is a finalist in the social justice category of Fast Company magazine’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards. The Se... Read More
May 18, 2021
Bon Secours St. Francis Health System will open a clinic Wednesday to serve the staff and students of Legacy Early College. The primary care clinic, called Legacy Early College Health Center, will be staffed by a nurse practitioner an... Read More
May 13, 2021
United Community Bank today announced that its Advisory Services division will expand through the acquisition of FinTrust Capital Partners and its operating subsidiaries, FinTrust Capital Advisors LLC, FinTrust Capital Benefit Group LLC ... Read More
Apr 23, 2021
ACL Airshop, which provides air cargo unit load device logistics solutions to more than 200 airlines, air cargo carriers, and other transportation clients around the world, is being purchased by Alinda Capital Partners, an infrastructure... Read More
Apr 21, 2021
Electrolux will donate $300,000 to Anderson University to support the school’s new College of Engineering. The company made the announcement Tuesday while showing off its newly expanded refrigeration factory to Gov. Henry McMast... Read More
Feb 04, 2021
Prisma Health is launching an organ transplant program to serve the Upstate and Midlands. Prisma Health CEO Mark O’Halla said in a news conference today that development is already underway and Dr. Todd Merchen has been hired to... Read More
Dec 18, 2020
Civic, education and government leaders announced plans Thursday to put more fuel behind Next, an entrepreneur support organization that has operated under the auspices of the Greenville Chamber since 2006. Next, until now operated as... Read More
Dec 04, 2020
Synnex Share the Magic became the first organization to hold an event at Hotel Hartness on Thursday, announcing $1.4 million in charitable distributions just moments after ground was broken on the hotel and restaurants that soon will bec... Read More
Nov 20, 2020
Auro Hotels this week unveiled final plans for seven food and beverage venues in the AC Hotel Greenville nearing completion on S. Main Street at the Camperdown development. The hotel will also offer nearly 10,000 square feet of dedica... Read More
Nov 11, 2020
Food Lion on Tuesday announced a big step forward with plans to expand its store network through previously announced plans to purchase 62 Bi-Lo and Harveys Supermarket stores from Southeastern Grocers. The U.S. Federal Trade Commissi... Read More
Nov 03, 2020
Some people who work for the Tampa Electric Co. in Florida have to be there to get the job done. Regan Haines does not. He’s proven it over the last seven months. The engineer, as well as the rest of his team, continue to work f... Read More
Oct 30, 2020
Jim Newsome, president and CEO of the S.C. Ports Authority, was presented the BlueCross BlueShield Manufacturing Lifetime Service Award during the Manufacturing Excellence Awards ceremony that anchors the final day of the 2020 S.C. Manuf... Read More
Oct 20, 2020
A trio of brewers who created their own brand by contracting time at an Upstate brewery have plans for their own facilities in downtown Anderson. Magnetic South Brewery has announced plans for a location at 516 N. Main St. with an ant... Read More
Jul 31, 2020
As politicians and policy influencers make a case for bringing the manufacture of critical medical supplies to American soil, a pair of Greenville companies just started doing business together to make sure a critical step in the testing... Read More
Jul 22, 2020
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Wednesday made good on a pledge he made at the Pendleton Milliken plant in April by introducing legislation he says will make sure medical personal protective equipment is made in America. Along wit... Read More
Jul 20, 2020
If there is a silver lining to the bleak days facing the hotel industry, it’s that Americans have a deep desire to be on the move. Kirby Smith, vice president of sales and marketing for Greenville-based Auro Hotels, said the... Read More
Jun 22, 2020
A technology with a pedigree in tires may be the next big thing for medical swabs as a Greenville company prepares to roll out COVID-19 testing supplies by the millions. Hoowaki LLC has developed a one-piece injection molded design fo... Read More
Jun 17, 2020
Electrolux is adding a third shift to its new facility in Anderson, with plans to fill 350 positions by July and an additional 450 by October. Staffing firm HTI will oversee hiring, which is underway now. The company will host a job f... Read More
May 26, 2020
A transfer case floated over the top of a cart at the BorgWarner plant in Seneca, suspended by a cable as a worker made some final adjustments on May 4. Satisfied, she pushed a button and the automotive unit dropped to the cart. Her cowo... Read More
May 21, 2020
Lately I’ve been thinking about the participation trophy almost as much as the coronavirus. I think it’s possible that I was among the last people never to receive a participation trophy and my little brother was among the... Read More
May 15, 2020
Few things were as real or as ugly as the spreadsheet in front of John Carrington’s eyes. The state, the country, the world was shutting down because of the new coronavirus, but the spreadsheet with a list of employees at Columb... Read More
Apr 27, 2020
A Scotsman in Greenville called some people he knew and caused about 1.5 million face masks from China to land on a tarmac at GSP. It wasn’t nearly that simple, Neil Ferrier said Sunday afternoon as politicians, reporters an... Read More
Apr 24, 2020
Suds had a notion. Sudarshan “Suds” Sridharan did not like what he saw as the Clemson sophomore drove through his town. One door after another was closed and the lights off along Clemson’s main street, College Avenue... Read More
Apr 06, 2020
Greenwood Mills switched from making denim to making nonmedical-grade masks, just as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a recommendation. The CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other ... Read More
Mar 20, 2020
BMW Manufacturing will shut down production at Plant Spartanburg on April 3. The company said in an announcement late today that it would stop producing X models for at least 16 days, with plans to resume April 19. Volvo Car Corp.&nbs... Read More
Mar 12, 2020
After coming together slower than company officials originally predicted, a new Electrolux assembly plant in Anderson is ready to hire. Through Greenville-based Human Technologies Inc., the company intends to hire more than 500 worker... Read More
Feb 26, 2020
The eighth CEO Build campaign for Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County kicked off Wednesday morning with a breakfast at the Commerce Club. Thirty-four CEOs have pledged company support, staff volunteers and personal involvement t... Read More
Feb 11, 2020
Deciding whether to own or rent, stay or go, was a long and complex conversation that took place among Greenville Chamber of Commerce board members for more than two years before the move to new offices at Riverplace, 550 S. Main St. ... Read More
Feb 10, 2020
Almost 125 years after the act to incorporate Converse College, the administrators responsible for carrying out those directives are leaning on the original documents to guide them through a couple of major changes. For the first time... Read More
Jan 30, 2020
The shrinking labor pool has frustrated hiring managers across economic sectors, but the hard-hit construction industry is being hammered by a number of factors that keep the worker supply low. An initiative is underway now to bolster th... Read More
Jan 23, 2020
The Greenville City Council on Wednesday evening voted 6-1 to approve a zoning change that allows a proposed redevelopment project for County Square to move forward. A major change to the original plan is a height limit of 12 floors i... Read More