Midlands Factory Named One of "Best in Country"

By Mike Switzer

Published October 23, 2019 at 5:12 AM EDT

Industry Week is a national publication devoted to news important to manufacturing plants around the world and once a year they publish a list of their “Best Plants in the country”. Of the six plants selected this year, two were from South Carolina, including our next guest’s company.

Mike Switzer interviews Tyron Javis, plant manager at Intertape Polymer Group in Blythewood, 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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