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How to obtain disaster relief from the SBA

By Mike Switzer

Published February 23, 2023 at 5:30 AM EST

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Welcome to the first episode in a quarterly series we are presenting this year featuring the South Carolina office of the US Small Business Administration. We’ll be taking a deeper dive into all of their services available to our state’s small business community, starting today with disaster relief. Mike Switzer interviews Gregg White, the SBA’s SC district director.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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