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SC hog farmer wins award

 Marvin C Ross Peculiar Pig Farm
Courtesy of Marvin Ross

Humanely raised livestock is becoming more and more important to consumers, especially after recent year’s reporting regarding hog farms in eastern North Carolina. It’s important to our next guest as well, who has turned that passion into a profitable and growing business that has earned him the honor of being named the SC Minority Small Business Person of the Year. Mike Switzer interviews Marvin Ross, owner of Peculiar Pig Farm in Dorchester, SC.

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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.