Editorial, GSA Business In the convenience store business, low gas prices attract customers, but it’s what’s inside the store that makes the business profitable. But if your competition is part of mega money-making superstore offering low gas prices, business becomes difficult-almost impossible. The South Carolina Small Business Chamber, the SC petroleum Marketers Association and the …
By Crystal Davis, Reporter, WIS-TV and WACH-TV (Columbia) April 26, 2002 — South Carolina’s predatory gas price law is supposed to stop big corporations from selling gas below cost for more than 14 days a year. The South Carolina Small Business Chamber says they believe some of the big businesses aren’t playing fair. T.A. Harman, …
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By Jerry Bellune, Editor, Lexington County Chronicles Small business owners want the state to enforce the predatory gas pricing law. Three business organizations have called on the state Department of Consumer Affairs fails to enforce a law limiting gas sales below cost for more than 14 days a year. State officials respond that enforcement is …
By C. Grant Jackson, Business Editor, The State The health insurance premium for Don Purcell’s three small businesses rose 18 percent to 20 percent last year. Purcell, who runs Spring Valley Auto Body, Express Rent-A-Car and Long Creek Equestrian Center with 23 full-time employees, is facing the biggest problem of small business today: How to …
By Tim Wilkes, Guest Columnist, The State Ask at any South Carolina business if there are sufficient numbers of qualified applicants for white-collar positions, and the answer will be yes.  But ask South Carolina small business owners if they can find homegrown, qualified or skilled technical workers to meet their needs, and the answer will be …
April 11, 2001 By Dave L’Heureux, The State By Dave L’Heureux, The State, Columbia, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 11–Starting Oct. 1, South Carolina consumers will have to pay a new 1.4 percent surcharge on their monthly phone bills. The S.C. Public Service Commission, responding to a 1996 legislative directive, Tuesday voted 7-0 in …
April 10, 2001 Columbia, SC– On Tuesday, the Public Service Commission voted to create a $36-$40 million universal service fund for the purpose of formally subsidizing telephone service to rural areas of the state. Another purpose of this fund was to promote the competition for local telephone service. The S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce …
Published in The State The S.C. Chamber of Commerce won’t have the only formal business agenda next year. A major tax reform bill that would cut state taxes on small business by almost 30 percent was introduced at the end of the current session by Rep. Tim Wilkes, D-Fairfield. The bill, to be reintroduced next …
Published April 20, 2000 By Maurice Thomas, The State Small-business owners will get a chance to tell South Carolina legislators what’s on their minds in a series of eight forums to be held around the state. Gov. Jim Hodges and members of the Legislature Wednesday joined representatives from the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of …
After a successful eight and a half month effort to get the Columbia Convention and Visitors Bureau restructured, the Greater Columbia Hotel/Motel Association is calling on its members to rejoin the CBV. On April 1 of this year, the hotel association launched a very strong lobbying and public relations effort to revamp the local CBV. …
