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Exclusive U.S. Equine Business in Aiken

Maxine Maxine Emerich has established herself and earned credibility for her Engineered Equine Performance (EEP) business in a short period of time as Aiken’s “Horse Business” continues to spread out and diversify. Aiken was never a “one horse town.” For most of the past 130 years, it was primarily a three-horse town: Thoroughbred racehorses, fox hunters and polo “ponies.” Of course, several other horse disciplines began to train here over the years, but it has been in the past 20 years or so that it seems the whole equestrian world

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Stephen Delaney Hale November 23, 2021 No Comments
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Local family celebrates 50th anniversary in business

Clarence Bush has owned a successful family auto repair shop for 50 years, but he gives God all the credit for this accomplishment. Clarence, 92, has owned Bush’s Auto Repair & Service – located at 247 Main St. North in the small town of New Ellenton, South Carolina – since Nov. 20, 1971. “That’s when I bought the other man out,” he says. “I worked with him for 16 years.” Many years earlier, in 1954, Clarence broke his leg and was out of work for several months. At that time,

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Josh Heath November 23, 2021 2 Comments
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Turning empty office space into possible money

Editor’s Note: Don Lawrence and his company have been helping Augusta Business Daily to sub-lease unused offices at the building we lease at 930 Stevens Creek Road. He’s leased three executive suites for us and I thought if he can help ABD, perhaps he can help your company! Have you ever walked around your CSRA office building and seen a lot of rooms with the lights off and no one there? Do you ever think that space is being wasted? Even after the pandemic, more employees are working from home

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Don Lawrence November 23, 2021 No Comments
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Looking into local manufacturing jobs

125 jobs are coming to the CSRA in 2022. Will this be a company you will want to refer friends and family members to? ABD Publisher compares its ratings with another established manufacturer in the area.

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Neil Gordon November 23, 2021 No Comments
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Blending the Old and the New

    Don MacNeil is the former Marketing Director of Windsor Jewelers and long-time on-air radio professional. Is it just me, or… Blending the Old and the New For 50 years, nothing changed. Marketing your business meant fashioning a blend of newspapers, magazines and direct mail in the print world; radio and TV in the electronic, and as long as you stayed on top of minor developments in each realm, that body of media knowledge could pretty much take you from your 20s to retirement. I don’t have to tell

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Don MacNeil November 23, 2021 No Comments
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Aiken/Augusta BizBitz

Guitar Pull Business, Community Service and Fun! Congrats to Kicks 99 for another great Guitar Pull concert—after a one year hiatus due to Covid-19. Yours truly was amongst hundreds of Beasley Broadcasting advertising clients that got complimentary tickets to the show. Rather than take a business client of mine, I took my eight year-old daughter Lyndee (pictured above) to her first concert! Business-wise we both noticed the care local companies took to offer giveaways in the “swag-bags” and the quality of the commercials on the concert screen. Associated Credit Union

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Neil Gordon November 22, 2021 No Comments
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Nothing Bundt Cakes Coming Soon to Aiken

When the inventors of Nothing Bundt Cakes, Dena Tripp and Debbie Shwetz of Las Vegas, tasted their first homemade Bundt cake, made in one of their kitchens as a party gift for the other, they knew they had something special and different. They didn’t know if they had a business, but they say they knew that if they stuck to their family recipes and treated customers with the fun and welcoming spirit that their home gatherings were known for, surely, they would get a following. Now, 25 years after their

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Stephen Delaney Hale November 22, 2021 No Comments
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Two restaurants provide Thanksgiving meals for families in need

While many look forward to feasting on turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie, Henry Scheer enjoys serving others on Thanksgiving. Scheer – co-owner of Tbonz Steakhouse – has served Thanksgiving dinners to needy families and children (see above photo courtesy News 12) in his restaurant for many years. But this year, he and his staff plan to do something a little different for the holiday: They will serve traditional Thanksgiving carryout meals for CSRA first responders. “We learned a lot of the police and firemen working that day don’t really

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Josh Heath November 22, 2021 No Comments
B2B Stories

Mondays with Rick: Business and the Braves!

Editor’s Note: Rick Franza’s’ daughter Audie is an account executive for the Braves in the membership services department. She hit a home run by working with a World Series champion, and some would say she works for a world class organization. The Braves allow employees to invite family members to some games and Dr. Franza attended one playoff game vs. Milwaukee, Los Angeles and one World Series contest vs. Houston. Rick is the Dean of the Hull College of Business at AU and believes there are lessons, business leaders can

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Neil Gordon November 22, 2021 No Comments
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GA Jobs, Southern Company and UGA company honors

    A twenty-year unemployment record is shattered. Plant Vogtle is running into big money overruns and ABD celebrates the “Bulldog 100”. Reporter Mike Petchenik has more from the capitol in Atlanta.

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Mike Petchenik November 22, 2021 No Comments
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