Hiring more women in SC manufacturing

By Mike Switzer

Published February 23, 2024 at 6:30 AM EST

Rachel Touchet, founder of R&R Resolute Staffing in Greenville, SC

With the low unemployment rate continuing across our state, employers are becoming more and more competitive in their hiring and as a result, pressure is building at staffing agencies. Our next guest says that one answer may be an effort to place more women in manufacturing jobs. Mike Switzer interviews Rachel Touchet, founder of R&R Resolute Staffing in Greenville, 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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