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South Carolina Business Review

The battle for women’s sandals

By Mike Switzer
Published January 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM EST
Cassidy Caulk, founder of Kindred Label in Charleston, S.C.
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Cassidy Caulk, founder of Kindred Label in Charleston, S.C.

By the age of 24 our next guest was a self-taught cobbler who used her passion for fashion and a business degree from the College of Charleston to become an entrepreneur with a goal of creating an innovative brand of sandals for women. Mike Switzer interviews Cassidy Caulk, founder of Kindred Label in Charleston, S.C.

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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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