Womble Carlyle Acquires Boutique Columbia, SC Firm

Although only three lawyers, the firm includes a former chairman of the South Carolina Election Commission and the special counsel to Governor Nikki Haley.  The office is the 14th for the firm and follows its recent strong move into the Palmetto State its April 2011 merger with Charleston-based Buist Moore Smyth McGee. 

Centerpoint Human Services to Add 89 Jobs

Centerpoint, from its main headquarters on University Parkway, provides mental health, developmental disabilities and substance-abuse services to Davie, Forsyth, Stokes, and Yadkin counties.  I believe what happened is that it was approved in November to receive and oversee federal funds from the Medicaid program in addition to the state funds it was already charged with overseeing.  The addition of the federal funds increased its annual budget from $44 million to $151 million.  In any event, the company has begun already begun hiring and plans to hire a total of 89 over the course of the coming year.  Click here for employment opportunities.

Visit Winston-Salem's New Marketing Campaign; W-S's Newest Park

 

Visit Winston-Salem, the tourism bureau of the city funded by the local tourism-related taxes, launched a new campaign Friday.  The campaign features ads in which a generic silhouette of a local asset like food, wine, art, culture, or history frames a picture of another such asset.  Click here for examples on the Winston-Salem Journal's website (they look really good).  The campaign, which also features a redesigned Visit Winston-Salem website (which also looks good), was launched in response to a study by the Randall Travel Marketing firm of what brought visitors to Winston-Salem:  the Winston-Salem Journal article linked above discusses the findings of that study in more detail.