Top Ten Most Popular Stories from 2011

We wish all of our readers a very happy and relaxing holiday season. 

One of the beautiful things about web publishing is all the information that you receive about your content from sites like Google Analytics.  As we look back on 2011, here is the list of the Top Ten Most Popular Stories from this past year.

1.  A Conversation with Allen Stephenson and Jim Twining of Southern Tide

Published in October of this year, our interview with Allen Stevenson and Jim Twining was far and away the most read article on UpstateBizSC.com, and proved to be popular on all of our sites. A very cool South Carolina story about managing rapid growth though the first six years of being in business.

2. A Conversation with Catherine Heigel, President of Duke Energy South Carolina

How do we meet our future energy needs?  We need to become more energy efficient and either build new plants and apply for new licenses, or upgrade and re-license existing facilities.

 

 

3. Greer PR Woman Is South Carolina’s SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year 

Taryn Scher, president of TK PR in Greer, was the third most popular article of the year. She won South Carolina’s 2011 SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year, an award that honors a small-business owner under 30 years-old whose firm demonstrates consistent growth and the potential for long-term success.

 

 

4. OOBE Hires Senior Executive from VELUX 

Number 4 came from a cool Greenville based company, OOBE, Inc., one of the country’s leading brands of custom-designed uniforms.

5. Legacy Charter School Begins New Year With New Principals 

Legacy Charter School is a free, public charter school open to all students in Greenville County. It’s great that the number 5 most popular article came from the area of education.

 

 

 

6. Augusta Village Shopping Center Welcomes Three New Tenants 

Commercial real estate announcements are always very popular on the site. This one, from NAI Earle Furman, was the 6th most read article of the year.

7. Law Management and Marketing Veteran Brenda Stewart Launches Consulting Firm 

Upstate resident and legal industry management and marketing veteran Brenda Stewart using her 27 years of law firm experience in the Carolinas and Virginia to launch her own firm, Stewart Marketing and Consulting.

 

 

 

8. Record Breaking $327 Million Verdict Announced in Janssen Case 

Back in June, Harrison, White, Smith & Coggins, P.C., a Spartanburg-based law firm announced details about the groundbreaking case of State of South Carolina versus Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson, Inc.

 

 

9. CertusBank Announces Expansion Plans at ONE Groundbreaking 

A huge economic development announcement for downtown Greenville! The new mixed-use complex that will house 350 CertusBank employees at the corner of Main and Washington streets in downtown Greenville.

 

10. Clemson University Foundation announces new board members, re-elects officers 

It’s always very cool to read about those in leadership positions at our most important institutions. Seven new members have been elected to the Clemson University Foundation board of directors. The board also re-elected its chairwoman and vice chairman.

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12. Greenville’s Arts District to be known as the Far West End