Nearly 1,000 new or foreign businesses registered to do business in West Virginia during the month of August, according to the Secretary of State’s office.
Pleasants, Grant, and Marion Counties saw the most growth in business registrations. Each of those three counties increased its percentage by almost 2 percent.
In Pleasants County, 4 new business entities were registered. In Grant, 9 businesses; and in Marion, 40 new entities were licensed to set-up shop.
Since Secretary of State Mac Warner took office in January, over 7,300 new businesses have registered with the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office.
Author: Liz McCormick
Liz is WVPB's Webmaster/Digital Coordinator and Eastern Panhandle Bureau Chief, based in Shepherdstown, WV on Shepherd University's campus. Liz is a native of Charleston, West Virginia. She received a M.A. in Strategic Communication from American University in 2022 and a B.A. in Communication and New Media from Shepherd in 2014. Prior to her role as webmaster, Liz was WVPB's Eastern Panhandle reporter from 2014-2022, the House of Delegates reporter on "The Legislature Today" from 2015-2017, and she covered K-12/higher education from 2020-2022. Liz has also worked as a technical assistant and associate producer on "The Legislature Today."
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