Sustainability efforts continue in SC

By Mike Switzer

Published January 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM EST

Jarrett Branham, president of the Branham Group in Mt. Pleasant, SC

While the electric vehicle industry has come under attack from the current administration in Washington, which may end up hurting our own state’s economy, other areas of the sustainability movement are still going strong. Mike Switzer interviews Jarrett Branham, president of the Branham Group in Mt. Pleasant, SC, a construction firm focused on renewable energy and sustainability.

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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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