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Wednesday, November 24, 2021

“Nutty” retailer ready for big move to Washington Road

Brian and Kam Kyzer plan to relocate their gourmet nut business to a much larger space early next year. Watanut, currently located at 3604 Verandah Drive, Suite A in Augusta, is moving to 3311 Washington Road near Infiniti of Augusta. “It’s 10,000 square feet, so at least four times larger” than their current location, says Brian.…

ByJosh Heath7 hours ago0Comments

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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…

ByStephen Delaney Hale 1 day ago0Comments

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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…

ByNeil Gordon2 days ago0Comments

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Faith Friday: Business owner credits faith and family values for industry staying power

Trust in God. Treat people right. Help the community. These three core principles propel Augusta native and wholesale retailer Keith Brown as much now as they did almost 40 years ago. Support from others helps, too. “There are a lot of people who pray for my success,” Brown says. “I’m deeply rooted in my faith.” …

ByMonique Williams November 19, 20210Comments

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Amazon regional director speaks about investing in employees

For Robert Packett, much of Amazon’s success is due to the hard work of its more than 1 million employees worldwide. While the company utilizes state-of-the-art technology, that doesn’t reduce the need for workers to fulfill customer orders and ship billions of packages each year. Robert Packett – Amazon’s southeastern regional director of operations – spoke…

ByJosh HeathNovember 18, 20210Comments

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Two businessmen purchase the Boy Scouts a $1.7 Million headquarters

After a unique sealed bidding process with a deadline that came and went several months ago--- a creative, near $1.7 Million deal was struck by Sherman and Hemstreet Real Estate, the Augusta Jewish Community Center—the property owner and Georgia-Carolina Nature and Adventure Center, LLC—the private group that bought the 26 acre facility and blessed the…

ByNeil GordonNovember 17, 20210Comments

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Simon Says: Augusta’s unemployment picture

Dr. Simon Medcalfe, AU Economics Professor The headline unemployment rate for the Augusta MSA fell to a record low of 2.8% in September on a seasonally adjusted basis unemployment has been at 3.1% for the last three months. Other labor market…

ByDr. Simon Medcalfe, AU Economics Professor November 16, 20210Comments

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Augusta BizBitz

More to the story of the German manufacturer coming to Augusta. It’s ironic on my 58th birthday today, I am peeling the layers of the onion off of this story in which Richmond County and State leaders outbid 100 other communities for the right to bring Aurubis to South Augusta with the promise of 125…

ByNeil GordonNovember 15, 20210Comments

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Long-time car audio business closes its doors

After 33 years in business, a local car audio installation company has closed its doors permanently. Founded in 1988, Anything Audio was located at 3906 Washington Road in Augusta. The business’s owner, Richard Hurt, says he decided to close for a combination of reasons. At 63, Hurt figured it was time to retire and enjoy spending…

ByJosh HeathNovember 12, 20210Comments

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German company hiring 125 in Augusta to make dent in CSRA job loss

A German metal recycling company is coming to the CSRA and bringing with it 125 skilled manufacturing jobs. Yesterday, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Aurubis AG has authorized the construction of a $340 million recycling and secondary-smelting plant – the only one of its kind in the U.S. – located at 4760 Mike Padgett Highway in Augusta…

ByJosh HeathNovember 11, 20210Comments

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