{"id":315,"date":"2008-01-15T19:52:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2008\/01\/15\/commerce-department-record-breaking-year\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T19:52:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T17:52:37","slug":"commerce-department-record-breaking-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/commerce-department-record-breaking-year\/","title":{"rendered":"commerce department: record-breaking year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.formthotics.co.nz\/images\/work_safety_boot_ls.jpg?resize=258%2C373\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/font><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">The South Carolina Department of Commerce has release an impressive report announcing more than 15,600 new jobs and $4 billion in new capital investment; more than any year in the past.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>This is great news for the state and neighboring counties.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Unfortunately, Anderson County is not mentioned in this report.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>We\u2019ve got to work together to continue to work those \u201csoil conditions\u201d in Anderson so next year, the report will include us.<\/p>\n<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. \u2013 January 14, 2008 \u2013 The South Carolina Department of Commerce today announced that 2007 was another record-breaking year for the recruitment of jobs and investment to South Carolina. The numbers point to strong economic activity, large job creation levels in non-urban areas, world-class companies choosing to invest heavily in South Carolina, growth in the state\u2019s manufacturing sector, and a diversity of industry investments.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">In 2007, the Department of Commerce was involved in recruiting 15,666 jobs and $4.045 billion in capital investment to the state. On average in 2007, the state saw either a new company decide to locate in South Carolina or an existing business commit to expand operations in the state more than three times each week of the year.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">The Department of Commerce\u2019s recruitment of 15,666 jobs in 2007 shattered the recruitment record set in 2006 \u2013 which was also a record-breaking year \u2013 by more than 1,300 jobs. In the past two years alone, the Department of Commerce has recruited more than 30,000 new jobs to the state. Additionally, the recruitment of $4.045 billion in capital investment for 2007 surpassed the 2006 records by more than $1 billion.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">Commerce Secretary Joe Taylor credited Gov. Mark Sanford\u2019s efforts to enhance the state\u2019s business climate for much of the success in 2007. <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sccommerce.com\/newsItem.aspx?newsId=877\">To read the full article, click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina Department of Commerce has release an impressive report announcing more than 15,600 new jobs and $4 billion in new capital investment; more than any year in the past.\u00a0 This is great news for the state and neighboring counties.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Anderson County is not mentioned in this report.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to work together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-55","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}