Richard W. Salmons

First Financial Holdings, Inc. is a savings and loan holding company. The company through its subsidiaries provides integrated financial solutions, including personal, business, and wealth management services. It offers residential, commercial and consumer loan products, consumer and business deposit products, debit cards, cash management services, safe deposit boxes, trust and fiduciary services, and reinsurance of private mortgage insurance and premium financing activities. The company serves individuals and businesses throughout coastal South Carolina, as well as the Florence, Columbia, and upstate regions of South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. First Financial Holdings was founded in September 1987 and is headquartered in Charleston, SC.

SCBT Financial Corp. is the bank holding company for South Carolina Bank & Trust. The company, through its subsidiary, provides a broad range of financial services to individuals and companies in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. It provides customers with checking accounts, NOW accounts, savings and time deposits of various types, brokerage services and alternative investment products, such as annuities and mutual funds, trust and asset management services, loans for businesses, agriculture, real estate, personal use, home improvement and automobiles, credit cards, letters of credit, home equity lines of credit, safe deposit boxes, bank money orders, wire transfer services, correspondent banking services, ATM processing, and trust services. SCBT Financial was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Columbia, SC.

Salmons Dredging Corp. provides dredging and marine contracting services. The company specializes in marine construction and provides commercial diving and marine services to the industrial, utility, government, transportation, and service sectors in the southeastern United States. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Charleston, SC.

South State Bank is a financial institution that is based in Columbia, SC. The company provides banking services to its customers.