Small Business Lunch at Halls

Jimmy Bailey, YEScarolina Executive Director Speaks on Entrepreneurship at May 2 Small Business Lunch at Halls

The King Street Marketing Group and Halls Chophouse are pleased to present the Executive Director and Founder of YEScarolina, Jimmy Bailey, as the guest speaker at the upcoming Small Business Lunch at Halls, Thursday, May 2.  

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Jimmy Bailey, Founder and Executive Director of YEScarolina has a recurring theme in his life: People can achieve great success given the tools and the chance. He has a lot to say about Charleston business, entrepreneurship and community involvement.

 

In addition to founding YEScarolina, Jimmy served as a three term elected SC State House Representative and President of Bailey and Associates, a commercial real estate firm.  

 

Since his retirement from the House, Jimmy has actively supported the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) in South Carolina with the belief that entrepreneurship can connect young people to our community and the workplace. Since 2004 YEScarolina has provided entrepreneurial training to over 500 teachers in South Carolina using an innovative entrepreneurship curriculum.

 

In addition to his elections to the SC House of Representatives, Jimmy has served as Chairman of the City of Charleston Recreation Department, Chairman of the Local Development Corporation, member of the City Planning and Zoning Commission, member of the South Carolina Review Board for Excellence, Chairman of The SC Grants Review Board, and Chairman of The Charleston Memorial Firemen's Commission.

 

Each month Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three-course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matthew Niessner.

 

Tickets are $28 per person for the luncheon and parking. Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating of 60 participants provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click here to order tickets online, or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

 

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Parking, validated at the event, is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.

Ted Dennard, Award Winning Founder of The Savannah Bee Company, Speaking Thursday, April 4th

The King Street Marketing Group and Halls Chophouse are pleased to present nationally recognized entrepreneur Ted Dennard, Founder of The Savannah Bee Company, as the guest speaker at Small Business Lunch at Halls, Thursday, April 4.

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Ted opened a Charleston store on King Street in 2011, and prior to that, was named Georgia Small Business Person of the Year and his enterprise has been honored four times by Inc. Magazine as "One of America’s Fastest Growing Companies." His passion has never changed. “I just love it. I can’t imagine doing anything else.”

Ted Dennard was first introduced to honey as a 12-year old when a battered pickup carrying beehives rattled into his life. The bee-covered driver warned him about his passion: “Son, bees sort of become a way of life.”

Indeed, bees and honey became Ted’s life. He kept bees in high school, then at college at the University of the South and taught beekeeping to village farmers in Central America while serving with the Peace Corps. Returning home to Savannah, he continued extracting honey and pouring it into beautiful found bottles and given as gifts to friends and family. “I was bottling honey in the kitchen and keeping bees on the roof,” he recalls.

In 2002 he quit his day job, mortgaged his house, and put all his money into the venture. He started in an old 800 square foot classroom at the Oatland Island Wildlife Preserve, where he paid his rent in honey.

Today, Ted has a 40,000 sq. ft. warehouse, four retail stores, bottles two distinct lines of world-class honeys, and manufactures a luxury beeswax-based body care line. His honey products are sold at thousands of locally owned specialty stores across the country, plus Williams-Sonoma, Dean & DeLuca, Neiman Marcus, Whole Foods, Crate & Barrel and a host of others.

Each month, Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matthew Niessner.

Tickets are $28 per person for the luncheon and parking. Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating of 60 participants provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click Here For ticket Information or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Parking, validated at the event, is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.

Ayoka Lucas, Charleston Fashion Week Creative Director, Speaking March 7

The King Street Marketing Group and Halls Chophouse are thrilled to present Ayoka Lucas, Creative Director of Charleston Fashion Week, at our monthly Small Business Lunch at Halls, Thursday, March 7.

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Ayoka Lucas is the creative visionary behind Charleston Magazine's wildly successful Charleston Fashion Week (CFW). Showcasing emerging designer and model talent across the East Coast, CFW has fast become one of the premier fashion weeks in North America since its founding in 2007.

Charleston Fashion Week is about business. There are more than 7,500 attendees, nightly sold-out events and chic after-parties throughout the city, delivering more than $2.4 million of economic impact in Charleston. As a small business owner, the more you know about CFW, the more your business can prosper from this great event.

Held March 19-23 under the tents in Marion Square in downtown Charleston, this five-night celebration will feature more than 35 runway shows, the Emerging Designer Competition East, the Spring Bridal Show, and the Rock the Runway Model Competition.

Ayoka Lucas' career as an innovative stylist began more than a decade ago in Atlanta, where she styled a local nightlife columnist and other celebrities. After relocating to Charleston, she wrote a weekly column that combined fashion, pop culture, and local events for Charleston City Paper.

Lucas then joined the Charleston Magazine team in 2003 as style editor, producing the magazine's monthly Style File, quarterly fashion features, and ongoing style blog. Lucas also serves as style editor for Charleston Home and Charleston Weddings magazines and as a contributing fashion correspondent on NBC News 2, ABC News 4's Lowcountry Live, and 95sx-FM's Two Girls & a Guy in the Morning show.

Each month, Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matthew Niessner.

Tickets are $28 per person for the luncheon and parking. Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating of 60 participants provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click Here For ticket Information or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Parking, validated at the event, is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.

Mike Veeck, Marketing Legend and Riverdogs Owner, Speaking Feb. 7

The King Street Marketing Group and Halls Chophouse are thrilled to present Mike Veeck, one of America’s and Charleston's most recognized marketing and promotion gurus, as the speaker for Small Business Lunch at Halls, Thursday, February 7, 2013.

Mike Veeck is the part owner of five baseball teams, including the Charleston RiverDogs, and is a consultant for one other. He has put fun back into baseball while proving his ideas are not specific to just sports. An advertising professional, Adjunct Professor at The Citadel’s MBA program, coveted public speaker, founder of the Veeck Promotional Seminar, and all around idea man, he will tell you how his "Fun is Good" philosophy leads to success in any business.

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  Mike will tell you why:
•Injecting fun, creativity and passion is so essential to business success.
•An understanding of customer service is the lifeblood of any business.
•An organization suffers when employees aren’t having fun at work.
•Having just a few people with the fun-is-good attitude can transform an entire workplace.

Veeck has spoken and entertained groups at companies such as the NBA, 3M, General Mills, and NASCAR. He has made appearances on 60 Minutes, HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, NBC Nightly News and ESPN Sportscenter, CBS Sunday Morning, ABC’s Nightline, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

Mike began his baseball career with the White Sox and also worked for the Detroit Tigers and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. It is his inherited belief that anything is possible and no idea so silly, and that is how Veeck operates his ball clubs and businesses. Veeck has hired a dog and a pig to deliver baseballs to the umpire, a Roman Catholic nun to give massages, mimes to perform instant replays and locked out fans of the stadium to set an all-time attendance for the fewest people at a game.

Each month, Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matthew Niessner.

Tickets are $28 per person for the luncheon and parking. Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating of 60 participants provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click Here For ticket Information or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Parking, validated at the event, is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.

Mary Norton, Fashion Entrepreneur, to Speak January 10

Small Business Lunch at Halls is pleased to present Charleston's fashion expert, Mary Norton, as our distinguished speaker, Thursday, January 10, 2013. Mary Norton is still Charleston’s brightest star in international fashion design and is world-renowned for her whimsical and sophisticated Moo Roo handbags.

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Beginning in 1998, she grew Moo Roo from her kitchen table into an international brand with an A-list celebrity following including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jennifer Lopez, Uma Thurman, Cameron Diaz, Halle Berry and Oprah Winfrey.

In 2004, Fashion Group International, Inc. and The Accessories Council named Mary Norton a rising star. And, in 2005, Inc. Magazine named Moo Roo among the fastest growing urban businesses in the United States.

She designed an entire collection of Mary Norton Shoes and opened a boutique on King Street. In 2007, Mary was honored with the prestigious Footwear News "Launch of the Year Award" for a ground-breaking year of growth and stellar design.

She’s had successes (Mary’s now a star on the Home Shopping Network) and she’s had failures (that little bankruptcy thing in 2009) but this effervescent entrepreneur will enthrall you with her never-quit attitude and business acumen.

Each month, Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matthew Niessner.

Tickets are $28 per person for the luncheon and parking. Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating of 60 participants provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click Here For ticket Information or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Parking, validated at the event, is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston, to Speak at December 6 Luncheon

Small Business Lunch at Halls is honored to have Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston, as our distinguished speaker, Thursday, December 6. The military touches the economy of this community in many ways, not only those who are serving and those who have served, but in the programs they accomplish for the community and the incredible impact of equipping our forces.

The military presence and the military industrial complex in the Charleston area have major impacts on the economy of our city and our state. General Livingston will provide an overview and discuss the scope and importance of locally-based Department of Defense contractors and how they affect the total business community in Charleston.

And there is no better person to describe to the opportunities for local businesses with the development of the new Medal of Honor Museum at Patriots Point. Learn about the Master Development Plan and what it can mean to you and your business.

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Major General James E. Livingston retired on September 1, 1995 following over 33 continuous years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps. His last assignment was the Commander of the Marine Forces Reserve in New Orleans, Louisiana.

After graduating from Auburn University he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in June 1962. Promoted to Captain in June 1966, General Livingston served as the Commanding Officer of the Marine detachment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Wasp, before joining the 3d Marine Division (Reinforced) in the Republic of Vietnam in August 1967.

On May 2, 1968, while serving as the Commanding Officer, Company E, 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, he distinguished himself above and beyond the call of duty in action against enemy forces and earned the Congressional Medal of Honor. (Click Here to Read the Official Medal of Honor Citation.)

Each month, Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matthew Niessner.

Tickets are $28 per person for the luncheon and parking. Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating of 60 participants provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click Here For ticket Information or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Parking, validated at the event, is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.

Chuck Driesell, Citadel Men's Basketball Coach, Speaking Nov. 1

Small Business Lunch at Halls is pleased to present Chuck Driesell, the Men's Basketball Coach for the Citadel Bulldogs as our distinguished speaker, Thursday, November 1. Coach will bring you up-to-date on his plans for the upcoming 2012/2013 season.

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Coach Driesell is the 28th head coach in The Citadel's basketball history. In 2010-11, Driesell's first at the helm, The Citadel went head-to-head with 11 teams that reached postseason play, including six that finished in the top 100 of the RPI.

A former Academic All-ACC shooting guard and Maryland alumnus, Driesell served for four seasons on head coach Gary Williams' Maryland staff. Respected as a recruiter, he has gone head-to-head with schools from the Atlantic Coast Conference, Southeastern Conference and the Big East.

As a four-year letter winner at Maryland from 1981-85, Driesell was a member of four postseason teams under his father's leadership, earning Academic All-ACC honors. The Terps won 85 games during his career, while making three NCAA Tournament appearances and capturing the 1984 ACC Championship.

Each month, Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matthew Niessner.

Tickets are $28 per person for the luncheon and parking. Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating of 60 participants provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click Here For ticket Information or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Parking, validated at the event, is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.

Cougar Basketball Coach, Doug Wojcik, Speaking October 4th

Small Business Lunch at Halls is pleased to present Doug Wojcik, the new Men's Head Basketball Coach for the College of Charleston Cougars as our distinguished speaker, Thursday, October 4th. Coach will bring you up-to-date on his plans for the 2012/2013 season.

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Wojcik was named the 22nd men's basketball coach at the College of Charleston in April replacing the retired Bobby Cremins (2006-12). College Sports Madness said: “In Charleston Wojcik steps into a good situation where he has the talent to have success right away. Charleston has a talented roster and will be right in the mix, yet again, for a Southern Conference title.”

He came to the Cougs after seven seasons at the University of Tulsa where he became the all-time winningest head coach in program history with 140 career wins, surpassing legendary coaches Clarence Iba (137) and Nolan Richardson (119). He held a career winning percentage of 60 percent and an average of 20 wins per season with the Golden Hurricane.

During his collegiate playing career at the U.S. Naval Academy from 1983-86, Wojcik led the Midshipmen to the NCAA Tournament three straight seasons including a 1986 East Regional Final appearance. He started every game at point guard for three seasons, helping Navy post a 26-6 record as a sophomore, followed by marks of 30-5 and 26-6 in his final two seasons. Overall, Navy was 82-17 in his three years as a starter.

In seven years with the Golden Hurricane, Wojcik took a nine-win squad before his arrival and posted four consecutive 20-win seasons including back-to-back 25+ win campaigns, advanced to the championship game of the Conference USA Tournament in 2008 and 2009, won the inaugural College Basketball Invitational title in 2008 in his third season and appeared in the NIT twice in 2009 and 2010.

Each month, Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matthew Niessner.

Tickets are $28 per person for the luncheon and parking. Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating of 60 participants provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click Here For Ticket Information or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Parking, validated at the event, is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.

New Charleston Fire Chief, Karen Brack, to Speak at Sept. 6 Luncheon

Small Business Lunch at Halls is pleased to present our Thursday, September 6th distinguished speaker, Fire Chief of the City of Charleston, Karen E. Brack.

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Chief Brack officially took the helm of the Charleston Fire Department last month after Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. announced her selection in May over 60 candidates in a nationwide search. A native of Savannah with over 30 years of firefighting experience, she comes to Charleston from Eugene, Ore. where she was the Deputy Chief of Shift Operations.

Here she runs a department with 309 career firefighters (no volunteer firefighters) in 19 fire stations and inherited a department that in recent years has been taken to task for antiquated practices and policy breaches, brought to light with the tragic Sofa Super Store fire that killed nine firefighters in 2007.

The City of Charleston presents unique firefighting concerns with nearly 20,000 structures of which over 8,000 are historically important, plus residential and commercial buildings on the peninsula that are up to 200 years old, constructed of wood and are just a few feet from neighboring buildings.

Chief Brack is currently enrolled in the National Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer Program, has a BS in Biology from Clayton State College, and AAS in both Fire Science and Paramedic Technology.

Each month, Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matthew Niessner.

Tickets are $28 per person for the luncheon and parking. Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating of 60 participants provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click Here For Ticket Information or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Parking, validated at the event, is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.

Charleston Chief of Police, Gregory C. Mullen, to Speak at Small Business Lunch at Halls August 16

Small Business Lunch at Halls is pleased to present our August 16th distinguished speaker, the Chief of Police of the Charleston Police Department, Gregory C. Mullen.

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Chief Mullen has served as Chief since 2006 and commands a force of 412 sworn police officers and 137 civilians. Under his leadership, Charleston crime statistics report an overall downward trend with violent crime and property crime decreasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in Charleston for 2012 is expected to be lower than in 2009 when Charleston was lower than the violent crime rate in South Carolina by 21.97% and the city property crime rate in Charleston was lower than the property crime rate in South Carolina by 9.47%.

Mullen oversees every aspect of public safety in Charleston including traffic control for the Cooper River Bridge Run, establishing Valet Parking in downtown Charleston, and controlling skateboards on our streets.

The Charleston Police Department was the first municipal law enforcement agency in the State of South Carolina to be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies

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Each month, Small Business Lunch at Halls features a distinguished speaker from the business, civic or political arenas upstairs at Halls Chophouse with an imaginative three course meal prepared by Executive Chef Matthew Niessner.

Tickets are $28 per person for the luncheon and parking. Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating of 60 participants provides an intimate experience with each speaker. Click here for ticket Information and sales or call the 24/7 ticket hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

Halls Chophouse is located at 434 King Street in downtown Charleston. Parking, validated at the event, is available at the Visitors Center Garage on Ann Street between King and Meeting Streets.