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South Carolina Business Review

Rock Hill Lean Start-up Goes Global

By Mike Switzer
Published September 27, 2018 at 5:31 AM EDT
Charles Hardy
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Ever-changing tax laws create a constant need for updated tax filing software.  Our next guest’s company has taken advantage of that opportunity to grow from a lean start-up to a global enterprise in just the last few years.

Mike Switzer interviews Charles Hardy with SPAN Enterprises in Rock Hill, SC.

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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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