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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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CHARLESTON – Palmetto Behavioral Health, a Charleston-based mental health provider offering services for mental illness and addictive disease at its facilities in South Carolina, has hired David C. Shiel as executive director of adult services.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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First National Bank has made some staff changes. Heather Tisdale has been promoted to administrative loan specialist at the East Bay Street office in downtown Charleston. She previously was a customer service representative at the bank’s Mount Pleasant office for the past eight months.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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Elliott Davis LLC Principal Ira Bedenbaugh was a guest speaker at the Greenwood Chapter of the South Carolina Healthcare Managers Association meeting on Sept. 13. Bedenbaugh addressed the group with a presentation on document retention.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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CHARLESTON -- Palmetto Behavioral Health, a Charleston-based mental health provider offering services for mental illness and addictive disease at its four South Carolina locations, has promoted Cherie Tolley to CEO.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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MOUNT PLEASANT -- Choate Construction Co. of Mt. Pleasant recently completed Phase I construction of the Southeast’s premier manufacturing training center, the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology, as part of a three-phased project for Florence Darlington Technical College.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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CHARLESTON -- Douglas “Doug” Lougee has joined First Citizens as vice president/group credit administrator for its eastern division.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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WALTERBORO -- Trident Health System has named Mitchell P. Mongell president and CEO of Colleton Medical Center, effective in October.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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The BlueCross BlueShield Foundation continued its statewide tour awarding health care-related grants to various free medical clinics, health education programs, and school nursing programs. The foundation presented a check in the amount of $150,000 for the AccessNet system, an information technology initiative of the Palmetto Project.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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CHARLESTON -- Folbot Inc., a manufacturer of folding kayaks and accessories, has been acquired by a business partnership that seeks to grow the company’s market share and expand its current offerings of six models.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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GREENVILLE – VantagePoint Public Relations Manager Bobbie Wyatt has been appointed to the 2007 Marketing and Branding Committee for the Public Relations Society of America. Wyatt was selected by PRSA CEO Rhoda Weiss as one of 17 committee members from a nationwide membership base of more than 30,000.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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CLEMSON – Meredith Mims McTigue has been named alumni relations director for the College of Business and Behavioral Science at Clemson University. Previously, she served as director of MBA Career Services and Alumni Relations.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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The Mechanical Contractors Association of South Carolina and the Associated Builders and Contractors of the Carolinas were recently awarded a Career Cluster Partnership Grant of $150,000 from the S.C. Department of Education.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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Inc., a monthly magazine for private businesses and entrepreneurs, has recently released the Inc. 500, its annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Named to the list is SDI Networks, a Greenville-based technology integrator that has averaged more than 800% growth the past five years.
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Friday, 28 September 2007 |
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With the Jebel Ali Free Zone in the emirate of Dubai, the principals involved in Jafza International created an epic logistics and distribution center on 35,000 barren desert acres. That center of trade and commerce has since spun off nearly a dozen mini-cities on the vast empty land around it, cities dedicated to specific industries ranging from aeronautics to high tech, from textiles to maritime.
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 |
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South Carolina’s unemployment rate was 5.6% in August, the State Employment Security Commission reported Tuesday. This was three-tenths of a percentage point below the July rate of 5.9% and a full percentage point below the year-ago rate of 6.6%.
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Wednesday, 26 September 2007 |
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ORANGEBURG -- Officials with Jafza International, the Dubai-based giant in international trade, have decided Orangeburg will be the site of a $600 million logistics, warehousing and light manufacturing center, a company adviser confirmed Tuesday afternoon. According to the adviser, the company hopes to close within the next few weeks on a 1,300-acre parcel near the intersection of Interstate 95 and S.C. Highway 301.
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 |
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The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a contract to the South Carolina Research Authority for information technology services.
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
 CHARLESTON -- A series of decisions made, in part, to keep vagrants from entering his Savannah Highway establishment after business hours, may cost the owner of the Sofa Super Store chain dearly in the connection with the fire that claimed nine firefighters’ lives on June 18.
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
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The half-point cut in interest rates by the Federal Reserve on Sept. 18, the first rate cut since 2003, is a good news/bad news scenario, said Tim Koch, a finance professor and department chairman at the University of South Carolina.
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
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AIKEN -- A new customer service center will open in Aiken, creating 100 jobs and bringing a $3 million investment to the region. Veracity Payment Solutions announced Thursday it is establishing a customer service center in the former Belk at Kalmia Plaza during the first quarter of 2008.
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