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TOP Largest
20 Employers Employment & Workforce - 2017 Q3
Source: S.C. Department of
1. Dorchester County 11. South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs
2. Dorchester County Board of Disability 12. Scout Boats, Inc.
3. Dorchester School District 2 13. Showa Denko Carbon, Inc.
4. Dorchester School District 4 14. Six Continents Hotels, Inc.
5. Harris Teeter, LLC 15. Sportsman Boats Manufacturing, Inc.
6. Key West Boast, Inc. 16. Summerville Family YMCA
7. Mau, Inc. 17. Town of Summerville
8. Publix Super Markets, Inc. 18. Trinet HR III, Inc.
9. Robert Bosch Corporation 19. Village at Summerville
10. South Carolina Department of Corrections 20. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc (listed alphabetically)
courses, customized education and training for
business, industry, and government, and a variety of
employment training programs.
The area’s highly educated labor force also has
access to South Carolina’s nationally-acclaimed
workforce training programs in place for businesses
that locate in Dorchester County. South Carolina’s state-
sponsored workforce training program, “readySC,” is
hailed as one of the nation’s best training programs for
economic development.
Target Industries
Dorchester County’s top employers range from
large, Fortune 500 companies to smaller, homegrown
businesses, and more than 43 international companies
hail from global locations including Canada, Germany,
Spain, Japan, France, Colombia, and Switzerland with
industrial sectors ranging from biotechnology
to manufacturing.
Business recruitment efforts are focused primarily
on Dorchester County’s dynamic industry clusters that
are defined by the area’s key strengths and assets.
Many of the County’s established businesses also
target the area’s identified market clusters: Aerospace,
Automotive, Bioscience, Distribution, and Marine.
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