Manufacturing

When it comes to a career in Manufacturing, it doesn’t get much better than South Carolina. Almost 5,000 Manufacturing and Manufacturing-related businesses are in the state in fields ranging from plastics to technology, and pharmaceuticals to minerals. In fact, 97% of all South Carolina’s total merchandise exports are manufactured goods. 

 

Franklyn D. Owen, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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(1930 – 1982) In April 1994, Owen Steel Company, Inc., of Columbia sold the largest contract in the company's history — 23,500 tons of structural steel for the Atlantic City Convention Center project...
Walter S. Montgomery | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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A profile of Walter Scott Montgomery. Walter S. Montgomery (1900 – 1996) Spartan Mills is one of the South Carolina textile industry's most highly regarded companies, and the high esteem in which it...
Ben R. Morris | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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A profile of Ben Rankin Morris. Ben R. Morris (1922–2005) Ben Morris had spent 22 years working in textiles and textile machinery when he left Atlanta for Columbia in 1970 to enter the newspaper...
Roger Milliken | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Roger Milliken (1915 - 2010) Through Roger Milliken's leadership and passion for innovation and research, Milliken & Company has become one of the largest and most successful textile and chemical...
A. Foster McKissick | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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A. Foster McKissick (1869 – 1938) Anthony Foster McKissick was a major figure in the Southern textile industry and was also a college professor, scientist, state legislator, philanthropist, and...
James C. "Jim" Self | Legacy of Leadership

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James C. "Jim" Self (1919–1998) James C. Self and his son, Jim, were the first father-son laureates of the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame. Jim Self's father took over a run-down, 10-year-old...
John A. Warren | Legacy of Leadership Interview

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John A. Warren (1925-2009) John Warren retired as chairman and chief executive of SCANA Corporation in January 1990, but 18 months later he was working again, as chairman of the South Carolina State...
John M. Hamrick | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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John M. Hamrick (1913-2005) Few people have a better understanding of the economics of American industry, particularly textile manufacturing, than John M. Hamrick, chairman of Hamrick Mills, Inc., of...