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South Carolina Business Review

SC lawmakers want in on utility megamerger

By Mike Switzer
Published August 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM EDT
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Jessica Holdman, reporter with the South Carolina Daily Gazette in Columbia, S.C.
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Jessica Holdman, reporter with the South Carolina Daily Gazette in Columbia, S.C.

It’s Monday, and that’s when we like to take a look at current business issues that are trending across our state and discuss them with one of our fellow news media friends. This week, Mike Switzer interviews Jessica Holdman, a reporter with the South Carolina Daily Gazette in Columbia, SC. Jessica tells us about the SC Public Service Commission allowing GOP lawmakers in on the discussions involving the Dominion - NextEra merger; a new pharmaceutical company coming to Rock Hill to the site of the former proposed Panthers practice facility; and BMW’s new EV battery plant in Woodruff.

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Mike Switzer
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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