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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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TROY, N.C. and CHERAW, S.C. – First Bancorp and Great Pee Dee Bancorp Inc. jointly announce the signing of a definitive merger agreement providing for the merger of Great Pee Dee into First Bancorp. The terms of the agreement call for shareholders of Great Pee Dee to receive 1.15 shares of First Bancorp stock for each share of Great Pee Dee stock they own.
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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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GREENWOOD — When Dewey Yeargin, owner of Realastic Prosthetics, a division of Health Related Products Inc., realized he couldn’t grow his business significantly by exporting his products he decided to do the next best thing—sell his technology.
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Thursday, 12 July 2007 |
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CHARLESTON -- Big box retailers are welcome in South Carolina, but not on the dime of the smaller, family-owned businesses that would be their competition. That was Gov. Mark Sanford’s message Wednesday at two news conferences.
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
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Gov. Mark Sanford visited Charleston this morning and will be in the Upstate this afternoon to protest an incentive package passed by the Legislature that he says forces small businesses in the state to subsidize larger corporate competitors.
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
ROCK HILL — An Ohio-based engineering, manufacturing and design firm announced earlier this week its acquisition of Air Filters & Equipment, a Rock Hill company that provides air filtration manufacturing, engineering and services.
Pak/Teem, which is located in Sharonville, Ohio, near Cincinnati, announced the acquisition will add more than $2 million to its revenues. Terms of the deal weren't released.
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
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FLORENCE -- Pee Dee Electric Cooperative and Santee Cooper have formed the Green Power Solar Schools program in the cooperative territory. Savannah Grove Elementary School has been selected as the Green Power Solar Schools program participant. Green Power is electricity generated by renewable resources like solar and methane gas from decomposing garbage.
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
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Businesses around South Carolina aren’t fretting too badly about the upcoming federally mandated minimum wage increase that will raise the minimum wage more than $2 over the next two years.
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
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In 2005, Summerville resident Don Longest became too sick to work. The traveling sales representative for an Atlanta-based company developed cancer due to his exposure to Agent Orange during his service in Vietnam.
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
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COLUMBIA -- Seventeen acres of woodlands high atop the Blue Ridge have been purchased by the S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism.
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
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CHARLESTON -- Roper St. Francis Healthcare officials announced Tuesday they are resuming their search for a chief executive officer for their new Mount Pleasant hospital.
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
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A proposal by Santee Cooper to build a new 600-megawatt power plant in Florence County has raised the ire of environmentalists and the slow-growth community, who argue that the coal-burning facility will destroy the largely undeveloped community.
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
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McNair Law Firm has been recognized by Chambers USA for its practice areas of corporate/mergers and acquisitions, real estate and general commercial litigation. Five McNair shareholders were commended for their work.
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
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Export training sessions for small, agricultural companies in South Carolina and Georgia begins July 24. Those interested must apply by July 18.
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
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Upstate-based Rosenfeld Einstein has added two employees
to the employee benefits division of the regional brokerage and
consulting firm.
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
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Jones & Frank Corp. has hired Ryan Adams as South
Carolina retail sales representative. Adams comes to Jones &
Frank most recently from Modern Welding, and has more than 17
years experience in the PEI industry.
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
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CHARLESTON -- The auction of assets accumulated by former economist Al Parish during what authorities believe was a years-long buying binge with investors’ money will be July 13-14 in North Charleston.
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
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Site preparation and cleanup on the Department of Energy’s Mixed Oxide Fuel fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site, also known as the MOX facility, has been completed on time and under budget.
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
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MOUNT PLEASANT -- It’s a done deal. Early Monday morning, Citigroup Inc., the nation’s largest bank, announced it will buy Automated Trading Desk of Mount Pleasant for $680 million, including $102.6 million in cash and 11.17 million shares in Citigroup stock.
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
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The 2007-2008 state budget has made a record $1.4 million available to certified community development corporations (CDCs) in South Carolina.
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
 CHARLESTON -- When Charleston resident Mark Wilson weighed his options for where to receive surgery for his prostate cancer, he knew traveling six hours would make an already stressful situation all the more daunting.
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