Synovus receives customer service awards
Sea Island Bank, a division of Synovus Bank, has announced that Synovus has received 17 national awards from Greenwich Associates for excellence in middle market and small business banking.
Among 750 banks evaluated nationwide, only 39 received national excellence awards for middle market banking and only 42 for small business banking. Synovus received four regional awards as well.
“We are always focused on improving our customers’ experience every time they do business with us, and these awards demonstrate our bank’s dedication to delivering exceptional customer service,” said Sea Island Bank President and CEO Darron Burnette.
In compiling the rankings, Greenwich Associates, a financial services firm based in Stamford, Conn., interviewed more than 14,000 middle-market firms with sales of $10 million-$500 million and 17,500 small businesses with sales of $1 million-$10 million.
Sea Island Bank operates in Metter, Savannah and Statesboro. For more information, visit www.seaislandbank.com.
Local tech company to host ‘Launch-and-Learn’ event for new mobile app
Savannah-based Evoca will demo its new mobile application, Boca Video, from noon to 2 p.m. today at The Creative Coast office at 15 West York St.
Members of Savannah’s business, professional, nonprofit and educational community will get hands-on experience with the app, which allows users to create and share engaging videos using the photo and voice functions on their iPhones, iPads and iPods.
Evoca launched in 2006 and delivers cloud-based digial audio recording web services.
Georgia Southern a ‘preferred destination’
STATESBORO — Georgia Southern University set a new record for enrollment with 20,574 students from 49 states and 93 countries last fall along with a new record high average SAT score of 1115. For the third consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report has recognized Georgia Southern as one of the top national universities students want to attend.
Last week, the magazine looked at the yield rate which is determined by the number of first year students who enrolled after being accepted. For fall 2012, 5,456 students were accepted by Georgia Southern, and 3,542 enrolled. GSU’s yield rate was 64.9 percent, better than Yale University and MIT. Georgia Southern is the only university from the southeastern United States in the top 10.
“Georgia Southern is changing, it is growing and more and more students are making it their top choice for their college education,” said Brooks Keel, president of Georgia Southern. “I really do think people, particularly parents and alumni who may not have visited campus in a long time, are surprised when they see how much has changed.”
