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Retailer Anthropologie to open store downtown

The long-vacant building near City Market once home to a popular eatery finally has a new tenant.

Chamber offer 'Taste of Downtown'

Every year, the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce's Taste of Downtown Business Connection offers a tempting combination of networking opportunities with the best in Savannah cuisine from more than 40 local chefs, restaurants and caterers.

Toby Keith opening restaurant in Savannah Mall

The Savannah Mall has signed a lease agreement with Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill, paving the way for the popular restaurant and bar to open in early 2014. Construction on the space is set to begin in July.

Kent Bicycles opens Savannah operation

Kent Bicycles has rolled into Savannah in a big way, with plans to move more than a million units a year through the Georgia Ports' Garden City Terminal.

Coby Electronics to close Savannah site

Coby Electronics Corp., a privately held consumer electronics company with headquarters in New York, will close its East Coast distribution operation in Savannah by the end of June.

SEDA puts focus on workforce

Both the World Trade Center Savannah and the Savannah Economic Development Authority took their monthly board meetings on the road Tuesday, getting a firsthand look at Woodville Tompkins Technical and Career High School.

Creative Coast names accomplished entrepreneur Bea Wray as new director

A serial tech entrepreneur has been chosen to lead Savannah's creative community.

Savannah's growing vacation rentals reflect worldwide travel trend

Savannah has earned a slew of destination accolades in recent years - America's No. 8 Favorite City by Travel+Leisure readers, Top 10 U.S.

Cindy McManus: Practice manager at Banfield Animal Hospital

Cindy McManus title Practice manager where Banfield Pet Hospital age 50 hometown Ronkonkoma, Long Island, N.Y. family Married to Sal Cino. They have one son, Brian, 27.

Evelyn's Used Furniture

Q&A for Evelyn’s Used Furniture name Evelyn Johnson, owner family Husband: Carl “J” Johnson, Two daughters: LaPorsche 18, and Monica 16 originally from Alabama in business Three years why this business “About three years ago I started at the flea market when the economy went down. I ...

Community banks focus on Dodd-Frank

In response to the financial crisis and subsequent recession of 2008, The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) was signed into law in the summer of 2010 and the subsequent establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was completed in 2011....

Recreational boating and the law

With so many miles of scenic coastline, rivers and creeks, Savannah and the surrounding Lowcountry are a recreational boater's paradise. However, when things go wrong on the water, the law can be quite different than it is on land.

Make your website memorable

Websites are considered a "must" for all types of small businesses. In this digital age, customers rely on Internet search engines and online directories to locate sources of products and services.

New program solves many problems

Being an advocate means being a problem-solver, and I've learned along the way the first step to solving a problem is to first define the problem.

So you have a website: Is it different?

Having a website for your business is almost a necessity to compete in today's business environment.

Visit Savannah starts social responsibility program for visiting groups

Visit Savannah markets its tourism assets to meeting and convention travelers in addition to leisure visitors. And our Destination Services Department works to provide the same southern hospitality that our city extends to these guests.

Business in Savannah summary

The Links at Georgetown sold to Atlanta firm ATLANTA - Carroll Organization, a privately-held real estate company focused on multifamily investment, management and development, along with investment partner NorthStar Realty Finance Corp.

Business in Savannah: Newsmakers

HIRES/PROMOTIONS GARY E. MCCLANAHAN New job title: Attorney Company: HunterMaclean Duties: McClanahan will practice within the Health Care Practice Group.

Business in Savannah roundup

Six new retailers open at mall Oglethorpe Mall on south Abercorn Street has added six new retailers. Retailer p.s. from aeropostale, located in the Sears wing, offers clothing and accessories for girls and boys ages 4 to 14.

Report will focus on state of small business in Savannah

Savannah SCORE will present "The State of Small Business" during a free conference from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 30 in the community room on the lower level of the Savannah Mall.

Georgia Ports honored for supporting national guard, reserve employees

Curtis Foltz, executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority, was honored this month with a Patriot Award from the Georgia Employer Support of the Guard and Reserves, an agency of the Department of Defense.

Hospice Savannah recognized as top performer

Deyta LLC, an industry leader in data-driven management, recognized Hospice Savannah Inc., as a top-performing hospice at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's Management and Leadership Conference in National Harbor, Md., last month.

Bethesda fundraiser nets $90,000

Bethesda Academy, a school for boys in grades 6 through 12, raised more than $90,000 at its 2013 Celebrity Sports Weekend on May 2-4.

Family of student who collapsed donate defibrillator to Georgia Southern

STATESBORO - The College of Business Administration at Georgia Southern University has been given an automated external defibrillator) by the family of Cory Wilson, the junior business major who collapsed in class and died on Jan. 17.

Comcast volunteers help Haven Elementary School

One Saturday last month, Comcast employees and residents of Savannah spent their day working at Haven Elementary School as part of the 12th annual Comcast Cares Day.

Two Smart Cookies under new ownership

Financial advisors Ashley Dando and Bill Hannah learned long ago how to sweet talk clients. Give them cookies emblazoned with the company logo. The challenge, they found, was in finding the right treats.

New digs, higher profile for United Community Bank

United Community Bank will have its coming-out party Monday, almost a decade after the financial institution started doing business in Savannah. The Blairsville-based regional bank will open its new local headquarters on Johnson Square.

Herty celebrates milestone anniversary

For much of the last century, the Savannah-based Herty Advanced Materials Development Center has worked to help the pulp and paper industry create commercial applications for the state's massive timber reserves.

Publix, Walmart engage in grocery duel

Publix called out Wal-Mart by name two months ago, employing billboards, store posters and newspaper circulars to proclaim the nation's largest retailer and supermarket moonlighter "doesn't always have the lowest price.

Downtown Savannah building sold to South Carolina firm

The Realty Building, a high-rise commercial office building at 24 Drayton St. in downtown Savannah, has been sold to SCGII-Drayton, LLC, a real estate company based in South Carolina with ownership managed by South Coast Commercial, LLC.

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