Economic development heats up in central SC

By Mike Switzer

Published May 17, 2024 at 6:30 AM EDT

Jason Giulietti, president and CEO of the Central SC Alliance in Columbia.

If you’ve been driving around the Midlands counties of our state recently, it would be hard to miss all the industrial construction activity. You’ve probably heard many of the announcements like Scout Motors in Richland County and e-VAC Magnetics in Sumter County. Our next guest is the new leader of an economic development marketing organization for these counties and today, he’s going to tell us even more. Mike Switzer interviews Jason Giulietti, president and CEO of the Central SC Alliance in Columbia.

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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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