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September 26, 2023

B2B Stories

As restaurants close…. another expands

Today is “Tie Dye Rosie’s” last day in the Old Evans Plaza, but it’s a new beginning for her neighbors, Jason and Amber Parrish, of Mosh Pit Eats. Both businesses have maintained 5-star Google reviews for years. An ABD reporter remembers when Rosie Mendez started in the mid-90’s at the former Shopper’s World, an indoor mini-mall on Bobby Jones Expressway. It was once a Duffer’s indoor golf, Electrolux’s North American Headquarters, and currently the Central Campus of New Life Church. She moved to Old Evans Plaza 25 years ago. She

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Awards/Celebrations

Local Piedmont Healthcare leaders receive national recognition

A pair of employees at Piedmont Healthcare in the metro Augusta area have been recognized at a national level. Becker’s Healthcare recently released lists reviewing the top healthcare providers and workers across the U.S. The company based in Chicago, IL. uses print, digital, and live events to keep healthcare leadership up to date on critical issues in American healthcare. Included on Becker’s list this year, list of “Rising Stars: 67 Healthcare Leaders under 40” is Nicholas Wood, executive director and administrator of Piedmont McDuffie. Becker’s also released the “153 hospital

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B2B Stories

The death of compromise: UAW strike and government shutdown

Anyone who has been paying any attention to our federal government in recent years has probably noticed that if the art of compromise is not dead, it is surely either on life support or terminally ill. While it has been about forty years since I took a course in negotiation during my MBA program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business from the great Dr. Roy Lewicki, a number of the lessons from that course, and other lessons I have learned from negotiations in the years since, continue to stick

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B2B Stories

Getting lit for your business or home

Getting lit takes on a whole different meaning, whether you are lighting up the outside of your home for a holiday or installing lights on your business which can tie into a marketing campaign. What started as a landscaping company in Texas in 1986, has evolved into franchises across the U.S. and Canada for a leading holiday decorating brand. That includes their location in Augusta at 1048 Franke Industrial Drive. “Our customers wanted holiday decorations, so what began as an offshoot from the landscaping side eventually grew into a business

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