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NAIFA General Membership MeetingDate: Feb. 18Time: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Location: Carey Hilliard’s Banquet Room, 11111 Abercorn St.Speaker: NAIFA National President, Juli McNeelySubject: NAIFA 125th...
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COURTNEY MARIE FOWLERNew job title: Personal lines production managerCompany: Stevens Hale & AssociatesDuties: Fowler’s responsibilities will include providing sales, marketing and community...
View ArticleSavannah area gas prices up again
Average retail gasoline prices in Savannah have risen 7.1 cents a gallon in the past week to $2.15 a gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 262 gas outlets in Savannah.The national...
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JetBlue's CEO battles to appease passengers and Wall Street
NEW YORK — Robin Hayes, the new CEO of JetBlue Airways, is balancing between passengers and Wall Street.As he takes control of the New York-based airline Monday, Hayes faces a difficult task: increase...
View ArticleCITY TALK: Savannah mayor's state of the city speech: What it said and what...
Mayor Edna Jackson’s state of the city speech last week focused heavily on Savannah’s persistent violent crime.Jackson cited a variety of reasons for the city’s violence, including Savannah’s gun...
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Savannah Tech honors instructor of year, GOAL student of year
Savannah Technical College recognized its 2015 instructor of the year Monday and named two students to awards that will have them represent the college at statewide events.Sarah Hunt was named the 2015...
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Savannah Music Festival receives $20,000 grantThe CMA Foundation has awarded a $20,000 grant to the Savannah Music Festival to support the implementation of Musical Explorers, a pilot program of...
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Foxx: 'Infrastructure funding can't wait'
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx was back in town Tuesday to stump for the Obama administration’s Grow America Act, a $478 billion, six-year transportation proposal designed to provide...
View ArticleGeneral Dynamics names new execs for aerospace group, Gulfstream
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Larry R. Flynn, president of Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., will succeed Joseph T. Lombardo as executive vice president of parent corporation General Dynamics’ Aerospace group when...
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Agency buys Savannahians chicken to celebrate account
Bluffton-based advertising agency BFG Communications chose an unusual way to celebrate gaining a new client.After winning Church’s Chicken’s national advertising account, the group bused its employees...
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Caesarstone announces Bryan County expansion
With just more than a month to go before the startup of the Caesarstone manufacturing plant at the Belfast Commerce Centre in south Bryan County, officials on Tuesday announced plans to expand the...
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This month in BiS magazine:• Pooler developer and home builder Fred Williams knows Port Wentworth like the back of his hand. Of the 3,000 homes in that community, he said he’s built 1,600 himself or...
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Around the world in only one stop
A Gulfstream G650ER — the ultra-long-range version of Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.’s flagship business jet — recently went around the world, flying more than 13,500 nautical miles with only one stop, the...
View ArticleAmerica gives more -- or not?
Foundations, charities and philanthropic individuals are thirsting for relief on tax issues surrounding charitable giving. Since the 2013 lapse of a set of regulations addressing tax relief for certain...
View ArticleNova Medical Centers to open occupational medical center in Savannah
Nova Medical Centers, an occupational medicine provider, has announced it will open a new occupational medicine center on March 2 in Savannah.Nova’s services include minor emergencies, injury care,...
View ArticleFirst bill to pass Georgia House, Senate is for Savannah harbor deepening
ATLANTA — The first bill to make it through the House and Senate in the current legislative session won unanimous support, passing Thursday two days shy of the midpoint. The measure, Senate Bill 5,...
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JCB kicks of 2015 'I Make America' campaign
John Patterson was wearing two hats Thursday, but they fit together perfectly.As chairman of JCB North America, Patterson has helped the world’s third largest construction equipment manufacturer...
View ArticleSiplon talks logistics with Georgia trucking group
Page Siplon knows logistics.The former director of the Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics has moved to the private sector as CEO of Alpharetta-based TeamOne Logistics, but he’s still in demand...
View ArticleEmployers appeal to dockworkers in West Coast port fight
LOS ANGELES — Cargo companies have gone straight to West Coast dockworkers with what they call their “last, best and final” offer in a contract crisis that has choked off billions of dollars in...
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Nearly 40 percent of Wal-Mart's U.S. workers to get pay raises
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Hoping to shed its reputation for offering little more than dead-end jobs, Wal-Mart, the nation’s biggest private employer, is giving raises to nearly a half-million workers and...
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