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Andy Owens is the executive editor for the Charleston Regional Business Journal, Columbia Regional Business Report, GSA Business Report, SC Lawyers Weekly, NC Lawyers Weekly, and the Mecklenburg Times.
Dec 03, 2021
Daniel Island economist Stephen Slifer said that many workers who were let go or left during the pandemic might have chosen a different career path over their old job: Entrepreneurship. Slifer delivered his annual Economic Outlook Con... Read More
Dec 02, 2021
An employee with one of the vendors at Charleston International Airport has been arrested and charged with bringing a loaded handgun to work, according to an airport police report. The 18-year-old woman, Amari Damya Ancrum, has been c... Read More
Oct 20, 2021
DWG Consulting Engineers in Mount Pleasant has been sold to the employees of the company, the business said in a news release. DWG co-founders Michael Weeks and Phillip Dalpiaz actually talked to several prospective buyers before thin... Read More
Oct 18, 2021
Palmetto Brewing Co. in Charleston has been acquired as part of a bigger deal for its parent company, Catawba Valley Brewing Co. in North Carolina. The deal reached puts Catawba Valley brands in Florida, North Carolina and C... Read More
Oct 01, 2021
The Charleston Regional Business Journal honored the 2021 class of Forty Under 40 last night. Each year, the Business Journal and its sponsors and partners recognize the Forty Under 40 during a special event and awards ceremo... Read More
Sep 09, 2021
A matching funds program to move South Carolina companies into commercialization of products has launched in the Palmetto State. The Small Business Technology Transfer Grants are administered through the S.C. Commerce Department&rsquo... Read More
Aug 26, 2021
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $1.3 million grant to the S.C. Ports Authority to help support efforts to use electricy and energy-efficient trucks to replace diesel-powered vehicles. The EPA’s Diesel... Read More
Aug 11, 2021
Charleston has moved the city back to Phase III on its matrix of COVID measures, tightening protocols based on a rise in cases from the coronavirus pandemic. A special council meeting to discuss the change and answer questions ab... Read More
Aug 11, 2021
A financial services investment company based in New York has opened an office in the Lowcountry, the company said in a news release. Gamco Investors Inc., a publicly traded company, opened an asset management division office in ... Read More
Aug 06, 2021
The newly name Credit One Stadium on Daniel Island has hit a construction milestone with a topping out ceremony by the workers and construction managers from Choate Construction. A topping out is a moment during a constructio... Read More
Jul 19, 2021
A Charleston-based political campaign and digital marketing agency has named the company’s president to the role of managing partner, the company said in a news release. Push Digital, which has offices in Charleston, Columbia an... Read More
Jul 08, 2021
A Charleston-based hydroponics company has expanded to Atlanta as part of a growth plan that puts the company’s container farms near food distributors. Vertical Roots, which is an indoor, hydroponic container farm company that c... Read More
Jul 01, 2021
A company that serves medical diagnostic providers with billing, insurance fulfillment and other services is opening operations on Daniel Island in Berkeley County. XIFIN, which has customers and clients nationwide, said the company p... Read More
Jun 04, 2021
Astronaut Shane Kimbrough (left) took this photo of the Charleston peninsula, Mount Pleasant, West Ashley and North Charleston from 250 miles above the Earth during a recent fly over by the International Space Station. He took... Read More
May 19, 2021
Mount Pleasant Waterworks is coordinating a lane closure that will affect the Ben Sawyer Boulevard while a water main is pulled below the Intracoastal Waterway next week. The lane closure will happen May 25 before next Tuesd... Read More
May 11, 2021
BridgeTower Media has named Rick Jenkins group publisher for SC Biz News. Jenkins formerly served as the publisher for GSA Business Report in the Upstate and will now oversee all operations for the statewide business-to-business media... Read More
May 10, 2021
Karen Rhett, a 58-year-old Mount Pleasant resident, pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing more than $1 million from her former employer, Simmons Realty Co. Acting U.S. Attorney M. Rhett DeHart said Rhett served as the Charleston... Read More
Mar 29, 2021
SC Biz News CEO and Group Publisher Grady Johnson is leaving the business he helped found after 26 years. An entrepreneur who owned several businesses before joining the Charleston Regional Business Journal in 1995 with founder B... Read More
Mar 12, 2021
Allegiance Flag Supply, the North Charleston company that produces high-quality flags using all American labor and manufacturers, received some recognition in an interview on Fox News recently. (see video below) We spent some time at ... Read More
Mar 04, 2021
This week, six large-scale utility companies, including two operating in South Carolina, said they are banding together to address the electric vehicle infrastructure problem. When you buy a car that burns gas or compresses diesel, fi... Read More
Feb 26, 2021
The recent tragic incident involving Tiger Woods this week brought back a memory from the 2012 PGA Championship when our photographer, Leslie Burden, got up before dawn to get a photo of Woods going through a practice round. It wasn... Read More
Feb 04, 2021
Lowcountry Local First opened a new HQ, including more than 5,000 square feet of coworking space on Summerville Avenue in Charleston late last week. The location in the Lumberyard commercial development expands and modernize... Read More
Nov 25, 2020
Most of the companies receiving emergency loans to retain jobs in South Carolina in the early days of the pandemic will qualify for a streamlined forgiveness program. That could mean more than $76 million would not have to be paid bac... Read More
Oct 02, 2020
Gov. Henry McMaster indicated during a military commanders briefing Thursday that he would lift restaurant occupancy restrictions that have been in place since early August. “We’re going to remove the limitations on restau... Read More
Aug 13, 2020
North Charleston firefighters and Charleston County EMS responded to a commercial structure fire at a uniform company in North Charleston this morning. There were no injuries, the fire department said in a news release, and the fi... Read More
Aug 03, 2020
A regional developer said while the market for larger office space might struggle during the coronavirus pandemic, the appetite for smaller square footage could see a resurgence. Jeff Baxter, a partner in Cityvolve, said interest ... Read More
Jul 27, 2020
Goose Creek launched an economic development quest last year that included finding a food and beverage tenant for the city’s old fire station building. Now, the city has announced that effort is moving forward with a new brewery... Read More
Jul 24, 2020
The president of the S.C. Craft Distillers Guild told the S.C. congressional delegation that without increased federal help to deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, many distilleries in the state could be facing closure. I... Read More
Jul 22, 2020
Congress is considering a simplified process for forgiveness of Paycheck Protection Program loans, especially smaller loans, the CEO of the S.C. Bankers Association said. Across South Carolina, 63,000 businesses received federally bac... Read More
Jun 22, 2020
The latest chapter in a dispute over church property between the national Episcopal Church and a group of breakaway churches has been filed by a circuit court judge in Dorchester County. The dispute over ownership of church proper... Read More
Jun 03, 2020
The Charleston Museum has reopened with two new exhibits, as well as hourly tours of the Joseph Manigault House, which began Monday. The Heyward-Washington House is set to reopen June 15. The museum recently received a bridge gran... Read More
Jun 02, 2020
Responding to questions from businesses already struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, Charleston and Charleston County officials said they took their lead from law enforcement on the timing of multiple days of curfews.... Read More
Apr 24, 2020
Jason Ward, president of Landmark Enterprises, said diversification has helped the portfolio developer and commercial real estate company weather some of the COVID-19 fallout in recent weeks. Ward said the pandemic, and its requir... Read More
Apr 22, 2020
As offices and retail businesses closed in waves while COVID-19 took hold across the Lowcountry, one thing soon became clear: Construction sites were not closing down. Part of that is the essential nature of the business sector, e... Read More
Apr 14, 2020
COVID-19 has put a business twist on a scam that typically gets used against homeowners during natural disasters. The scam goes like this: Someone calls or emails you and says they’re from the electric utility company and if you... Read More