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Lowcountry supplement manufacturer quadruples capacity

By Mike Switzer

Published July 31, 2025 at 6:30 AM EDT

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The vitamin and supplement business is one that is growing and highly competitive. Our next guest’s Lowcountry company seems to have found a competitive edge as they have recently doubled the size of their manufacturing facility, giving them quadruple the capacity. Mike Switzer interviews Kenzie Goer, a senior vice president at Thorne in Summerville, 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.

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