Pittsburgh-based baked goods supplier Smiley Cookie has finalized an agreement with five new independent regional sales representatives: Jon Wendinger, representing Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota; dual team Wayne Burden and Roberta Reiss, representing Northern New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine; Mark Thieleke, representing North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia; Penny Hughes, representing Florida; and Vince Bagwell, representing Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
South Carolina
Fresh Beginnings announced the hiring of Cochran and Company to represent their gourmet food gift line in the Southeast, including the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi.
Hurricane Irene threatens to damage about a quarter of the cotton areas in Georgia, the second-largest grower in the U.S., and a large part of South Carolina, when it makes landfall, a weather forecaster said.
Irene was forecast to reach the eastern Florida coast and hit South Carolina on Aug. 27, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It may affect Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, causing about $2.2 billion in losses, according to an initial estimate by Kinetic Analysis Corp., a risk modeling firm in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Gildan Activewear is consolidating retail management and administrative functions in Berkeley County, South Carolina, creating 87 jobs. Most of the jobs will be filled by the end of the year.
City of Industry, California-based Sweda Company announced the hiring of Judy Warren as a new independent regional sales representative for North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
Promotional products industry supplier Jetline has finalized plans to relocate print and warehousing operations to expanded facilities located in the Spartanburg, S.C. metropolitan area beginning later this fall. The 147,000 square foot facility, located 15 minutes northeast of Spartanburg in Gaffney, S.C.