A new report on America’s energy future describes how the Greenville County Schools’ decades of energy-savings efforts have significantly cut power bills and freed up money to benefit students. Two congressmen are leading a bipartisan discussion set Wednesday in Washington, D.C., on the report, entitled: Powering Up America: The Revolution Began Yesterday. Read the full […]

A building next to the new South Carolina Inland Port in Greer may house a BMW export operation, according South Carolina Ports Authority president and CEO James Newsome. South Carolina Ports Authority president and CEO James Newsome told members of the Rotary Club of Greenville on Tuesday that a facility being built next to the […]

South Carolina recently received a No. 10 ranking in Site Selection magazine’s annual measure of state-by-state competitiveness. Read more from the South Carolina Economic Developers’ Association’s website. View the official ranking online here.

Industrytoday.com talks about how South Carolina is the among the Best in the East in Manufacturing. Read the full article on their website here.    

Ten medical technology startups from all over the world comprising the inaugural class of The Iron Yard LLC’s new business accelerator in Spartanburg punched in on Monday. The teams, whose entrepreneurial concepts were chosen in June from a large pool of applicants, reported for duty at the Greenville-based accelerator’s 7,000-square-foot downtown facility at 151 S. […]

Quest Brewery opened it’s doors to the public this past weekend with a packed celebration that included live music and two food trucks. This fall, Brewery 85 is set to open in the Upstate near Interstate 85, very close to our office. Thomas Creek is celebrating 15 years of business in the Upstate and we cannot talk about beer in […]

The 300-acre Oconee Industry and Technology Park has been certified by the South Carolina Department of Commerce and the McCallum Sweeney Industrial Site Certification Program, economic development officials announced Wednesday. Read the full article from GSA Business.

Josef Kerscher, who since 2007 has been President of BMW Manufacturing Co. in Spartanburg, South Carolina, will assume new responsibilities as Managing Director of BMW Plant Dingolfing in Bavaria, Germany. Taking over from Kerscher at Spartanburg will be Manfred Erlacher, currently Managing Director of BMW Plant Leipzig in Saxony, Germany. The handover takes place November […]

GSA Business hosted a Power Hour Thursday night featuring panelists speaking on the South Carolina Inland Port. The Port will attract cargo from across the Southeast and improve the efficiency of shipping from the Upstate through the Port of Charleston, panelists said Thursday night. Panelists included David Edwards, CEO of Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport; Jack Ellenberg, […]

Upstate’s Clemson University announced a gift of more than $1.2 million from the estate of the late Caroline Barton Caughman, formerly of Pinehurst, N.C. Most of the gift – more than $1.15 million – establishes the Kenneth and Caroline Caughman Memorial Endowment Fund, which will be used for undergraduate student scholarships. Read the full article […]