John Jeter, Author at UPSTATE BUSINESS JOURNAL

BASF CHEMISTRY CATALYSTS: Elba Lizardi, Deborah McKitten and Theresa Vaughn

Taken together, the three executives manage nearly 600 people who make chemicals used in everything from refrigerators to boats, toothpaste to detergents, water treatment to medical masks. They are a…

Lockheed Martin’s Fighting Falcon

Today, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Morocco, Slovakia and Taiwan are among Lockheed Martin Corp.’s newest customers for the defense contractor’s venerable Fighting Falcon, built right here in Greenville.

Tasty donation cooks up Greenville Tech’s new culinary campus

JaJa Dumas first considered going into the military. With his mother’s prodding, though, he decided to attend Greenville Technical College, where he began taking culinary classes. Now, the 19-year-old from…

Fluor and Greenville Tech Foundation’s ‘circle of giving’ focuses on workforce development

Since 2013, Fluor Foundation grants have supported, among other scholarships across multiple disciplines, more than 100 veterans in Greenville Tech’s Quick Jobs for Veterans program.

Milestone: Greenville’s Rush Wilson has been suiting up clothes-minded men for 70 years

James Rush Wilson Jr. opened his namesake store in 1950 in Davidson, North Carolina.

Greenville Tech’s Quick Jobs program helps workers find their future — quickly

Julia Lezcano, a self-described “missionary’s kid from South America,” arrived in the Upstate a decade ago with nothing but two suitcases. Now 43 and her family’s sole provider, she sells…

If there’s some muscle in your hedge fund, look for one of these Upstate firms behind it

One broiling summer day, the 30-something owner of a landscaping business was trimming hedges when he realized he wasn’t getting any younger. Now, six years after selling his landscaping business,…

An unlikely partnership leads to innovative success for development firm LyonJay

Company has a combined experience building, developing, managing or investing in tens of thousands of units worth $5 billion across 11 states

Hard money lenders count on big returns in the fix-and-flip trenches

It wasn’t all that long ago that John Thompson faced enemy fire in Ramadi, Iraq, scene of one of the war’s fiercest battles. Today, he sits in his office overlooking…

Tropical Grille fires up ambitious expansion plans

Laz Montoto cut his hospitality teeth cutting carrots in a world-class restaurant in his native Miami. Now, even through the coronavirus crisis, he’s dishing out expansion plans for his Greenville-based…

John Jeter

BASF CHEMISTRY CATALYSTS: Elba Lizardi, Deborah McKitten and Theresa Vaughn

Lockheed Martin’s Fighting Falcon

Tasty donation cooks up Greenville Tech’s new culinary campus

Fluor and Greenville Tech Foundation’s ‘circle of giving’ focuses on workforce development

Milestone: Greenville’s Rush Wilson has been suiting up clothes-minded men for 70 years

Greenville Tech’s Quick Jobs program helps workers find their future — quickly

If there’s some muscle in your hedge fund, look for one of these Upstate firms behind it

An unlikely partnership leads to innovative success for development firm LyonJay

Hard money lenders count on big returns in the fix-and-flip trenches

Tropical Grille fires up ambitious expansion plans

On the Move: Laura Beth Brooks

On the Move: Kaitlyn Ford

On the Move: Tyler Boswell

On the Move: Brian Goff

VisitGreenvilleSC CEO, Chris Stone, to retire at end of year

October 23, 2020