2021 Award Recipients

The winners were honored at a luncheon on October 12th at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center where Harry M. Lightsey III, Secretary of Commerce of South Carolina, was the keynote speaker.

The SC Economic Impact Award, sponsored by BMW Manufacturing Co., is one of the most prestigious award recognitions that a company can receive. It recognizes companies in the Palmetto State whose activities have produced extraordinary results. The South Carolina Economic Impact Award recipient is BlueCross Blueshield of South Carolina (Columbia).

The SC Excellence in Business Awards are companies which represent the exceptional work recorded across the state of South Carolina through revenue growth, longevity of its employees, longevity of its clients/customers and community outreach.

SC Excellence in Business Award recipients:
Revenue – SC Steel (Taylors)
Philanthropy – Marleylilly (Greer)
Client Retention – Langston Construction Co. of Piedmont (Piedmont)
Employee Retention – Palmetto GBA (Columbia)

To be eligible for the SC 50 Fastest Growing Companies Award, the company must be headquartered in South Carolina and be in business for at least three years and show revenues of more than $3 million in the last fiscal year. The companies are selected using a calculation based on year-over-year growth of revenue and employee headcount over the last three years (2018, 2019 and 2020).

The SC 50 Fastest Growing Companies, in rank order are:

1 bioPURE – Simpsonville
2 Industrial Project Innovation – Greenville
3 SteelCore Industrial – Spartanburg
4 Flexspace 360 – Charleston
5 Luxor Scientific, LLC – Greenville
6 Logisticus Group – Greenville
7 Kelley Engineering – Piedmont
8 Adapt Forward – N. Charleston
9 Blue Sky Specialty Pharmacy – Mt. Pleasant
10 Catch Talent, LLC – Charleston
11 Palmetto Fortis Marketing LLC – Greenville
12 ClaimLogiq – Mt. Pleasant
13 TerraStride Inc. -Columbia
14 Preferred Home Services – N. Charleston
15 Frampton Construction – Ladson
16 SC Steel, LLC – Taylors
17 Stokes & Company, CPAs – Greenville
18 PrideStaff – Greenville
19 Capital Waste Services – Columbia
20 SEJ Services, LLC – Mt. Pleasant
21 Diesel Laptops – Irmo
22 Eye Health America – Greenville
23 MedTrust Holdings, Inc – Hanahan
24 Matt O’Neill Real Estate – Mt. Pleasant
25 Creative Builders Inc. – Greenville
26 Clear Touch – Greenville
27 Langston Construction Co. of Piedmont, LLC – Piedmont
28 Vapor Apparel – Hanahan

29 Jeff Cook Enterprises, LLC – N. Charleston
30 Sunny Days Entertainment, LLC – Simpsonville
31 National Land Realty – Greenville
32 Cantey Foundation Specialists – Camden
33 Integrated Biometrics – Spartanburg
34 Marleylilly – Greer
35 BLUE HAVEN POOLS – Charleston – N. Charleston
36 Cantey Tech Consulting – N. Charleston
37 Docugraphics, LLC – Charleston
38 Kopis – Greenville
39 Thorne Ambulance Service – Greenville
40 JEAR Logistics – Mt. Pleasant
41 AFF | group – Lyman
42 A3 Communications, Inc. – Irmo
43 Myrtle Beach Hyundai – Myrtle Beach
44 Custom Equipment – Charleston
45 Plus-Plus USA – Greenville
46 J. Musselman Construction Inc. – Charleston
47 Spartanburg Meat Processing – Spartanburg
48 KRJ Consulting, LLC – Columbia
49 PCI Group, Inc. – Ft. Mill
50 9Round Franchising, LLC – Simpsonville