Savannah gas prices down nearly eight cents
Average retail gasoline prices in Savannah have fallen 7.9 cents a gallon in the past week to $2.15 gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 262 gas outlets in Savannah. The national...
View ArticleWinners of 2015 Generation Next: Rising Stars of Business announced
Business in Savannah (BiS) and Savannah magazine, along with Hansen Architects, J.T. Turner Construction, 24e. Design Co. and Rives E. Worrell Co., are recognizing Savannah’s Rising Stars of...
View ArticleTrends to watch in upcoming Savannah city elections
So 2015 is an election year for the city of Savannah.With residents so frustrated by crime and other issues, could we see a sea change at City Hall?Anything is possible, but not everything is likely.We...
View ArticleComing soon, a Conquistador sandwich near you? Zunzi's announces investors
As the name of its most popular sandwich, the Conquistador, suggests, Zunzi’s has been conquering the taste buds of locals and tourists for almost a decade. Now, in the mode of those 17th century...
View ArticleRaise your home's IQ: smart gadgets take center stage at CES
LAS VEGAS — Imagine a world in which your garage door opens automatically as you pull into the driveway. The living room lights and heater turn on — perhaps the oven starts warming up, too. In the...
View ArticleBusiness in Savannah in brief
Local gas prices drop almost 8 centsAverage retail gasoline prices in Savannah have fallen 7.9 cents a gallon in the past week to $2.15 gallon on Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 262 gas...
View ArticleNew Savannah VA Clinic finally on way
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a contract for its long-promised new medical clinic in Savannah to Johnson Development of Birmingham, Ala., which will build and manage the expanded...
View ArticleSavannah's Page Siplon resigns as head of Georgia Centers for Innovation
Page Siplon, executive director of the Georgia Centers for Innovation and architect of the globally recognized Georgia Logistics Summit, announced today that he is leaving his statewide post to take a...
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Home prices in Savannah increase Home prices in Savannah, including distressed sales, increased by 6.9 percent in November compared to the same month in 2013, according to CoreLogic, an international...
View ArticleTV makers design for streaming video to stay relevant
LAS VEGAS — Does anyone just watch TV anymore? The dramatic shift toward online and mobile viewing is driving television set makers to design as much for streaming video as for watching broadcast or...
View ArticlePresident Obama's executive order on immigration: Part 1 of 2
On Nov. 20, President Obama announced an immigration plan that will allow up to 5 million undocumented aliens to remain and work in the United States by deferring their deportations for three years at...
View ArticleSavannah's Siplon leaving Centers of Innovation
Page Siplon, executive director of the Georgia Centers of Innovation and architect of the globally recognized Georgia Logistics Summit, will leave his statewide post Jan. 15 to take a job in private...
View ArticleNew homes planned for Sun City, as stucco lawsuit creeps forward
While a faulty-stucco lawsuit involving thousands of homes in Sun City Hilton Head continues, the developer has asked environmental regulators for permission to add nearly a dozen new homes to the...
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Kroger, customers raise money for food bank Kroger customers and employees raised more than $50,000 for America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia during a November-December fundraising effort.More...
View ArticlePresident Obama's executive order on immigration: Part 2 of 2
In part one of this series, we examined the scope of President Obama’s recent executive order on immigration. This article will explore the elements of the order that relate to businesses, and...
View ArticleVeteran filmmaker hired to promote Savannah gets things started
The Savannah area has the enthusiasm, desire and potential to become a major southeast film center, but those attributes alone won’t make it happen, veteran moviemaker Ralph Singleton told the board of...
View ArticleCreative Coast kicks off entrepreneurial lecture series 1 Million Cups
The Creative Coast kicked off its new coffee and speaker series, 1 Million Cups, on Wednesday morning, giving two local entrepreneurs a chance to present their startups to a diverse cross section of...
View ArticleS.C. banned, fined Vogtle over waste shipment
Southern Nuclear Operating Company’s Vogtle site was fined $8,000 and temporarily barred from sending waste to South Carolina after environmental regulators said the company had violated the law...
View ArticleCoca-Cola cutting up to 1,800 jobs
NEW YORK — Coca-Cola says it will cut between 1,600 and 1,800 jobs in coming months to trim costs.The world’s biggest beverage maker says it began notifying workers in the U.S. and some international...
View ArticleHonda fined $70M for not reporting death, injury complaints
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Thursday it is fining Honda $70 million — the largest civil penalty levied against an automaker — for not reporting to regulators some 1,729 complaints that...
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