Record #:

8488

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

Elizabeth City Glass Co., headquartered in Elizabeth City, is a runner-up in the 2006 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. The company was founded in 2001 and employs eight people. Company president Shawn LeMond projects revenues of $320,000. Elizabeth City Glass Co. recycles glass, crushing it into a sandy material for such uses as sandblasting, making concrete, and filtering swimming pools.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 26 Issue 12, Dec 2006, p45, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Recycling industry--Elizabeth City

Record #:

5336

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

Durham-based Red Hat Inc. is a runner-up in BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA's High-Tech Company of the Year competition. Red Hat Inc., founded in 1993, is a maker of computer software and employs 600.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 3, Mar 2002, p36, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Computer software industry--Durham; High technology industries--Durham; Red Hat, Inc. (Durham)

Record #:

6943

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

T. W. Garner Food Co. is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's 2004 North Carolina Small Business of the Year. The company, founded by Thad W. Garner in Winston-Salem in 1929, makes and sells sauces, jams, jellies, and preserves. Texas Pete, the best-selling hot sauce in the South and No. 3 in the country, is one of Garner Food's most-recognized products. The family-owned company employs about sixty-five and projects revenues of $20 million in 2004.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 12, Dec 2004, p34-36, 38, 40, 42-43, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Sauce industry--Winston-Salem; T.W. Garner Food Co. (Winston-Salem)

Record #:

4713

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

Meg Scott Phipps is the daughter and granddaughter of North Carolina governors - Bob Scott and Kerr Scott. A Democrat, Phipps is seeking the position of North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture in the November 2000 election. Her platform includes an 18-month moratorium on farm foreclosures, establishing a team to assist farmers facing financial crisis, reorganization of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, and increasing the number of produced inspectors.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 8, Aug 2000, p26, 28-29, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Phipps, Margaret Scott (Meg)

Record #:

24290

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

Bill Cavanaugh is chairman, president, and CEO of Carolina Power and Light Co., and brightened the company's prospects by buying Florida Progress Corp. in Florida and turning the business into a super regional power.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 1, January 2000, p22-31, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Chief executive officers; Carolina Power & Light Co. (CP&L)

Record #:

4362

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

Regulator Marine Inc., based in Edenton, is Business North Carolina's Small Business of the Year. Owners Joan and Owen Maxwell build high-quality, center console fishing boats, priced between $37,000 and $120,000. Since 1997, Regulator's workforce has doubled, and the plant has added two production lines. The company is on schedule to build 200 boats and earn $10.8 million in 1999.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 19 Issue 12, Dec 1999, p28-35, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Boatbuilders--Edenton; Boats and boating--Edenton; Regulator Marine, Inc. (Edenton)

Record #:

24195

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

Lew Ebert is president and chief executive of North Carolina Citizen's for Business and Industry and plans to bring in members and money to the state.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 27 Issue 5, May 2007, p28-35, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry; North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry--President

Record #:

3279

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

When Governor James Hunt needs a problem cleaned up, he sends in Janice Faulkner. The former East Carolina University administrator has handled problems in the Secretary of State's office and, currently, the Division of Motor Vehicles.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 6, June 1997, p16, 18-19, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Faulkner, Janice Hardison, 1932-

Record #:

7644

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

Erskine Bowles, the new president of the University of North Carolina system, is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine Mover and Shaker of the Year. Bowles was head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, chief of staff in President William Jefferson Clinton's White House, and a twice-defeated candidate for the U.S. Senate prior to his appointment. Supporters feel his diplomatic deftness, financial insight, national experience, and North Carolina background make him an excellent choice for the position.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 26 Issue 1, Jan 2006, p24-29, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina (System); Bowles, Erskine Boyce, 1945-

Record #:

10365

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

Mark Higgins operates funeral homes in Durham, Pittsboro, Oxford, and Franklinton. His company does about 450 funerals and cremations a year and generates around $2.5 million a year in sales, making it a medium-sized company.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 28 Issue 10, Oct 2008, p56-63, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Undertakers and undertaking

Record #:

4327

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA selected twenty-one young people most likely to have an impact on the state in the next century. The list includes Amy Woods Brinkley (Banking), David Brown (Health Care), Roy Cooper (Law), Marybeth Cornwell (Manufacturing), and Peter Loftin (Telecommunications).

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 19 Issue 11, Nov 1999, p30-33, 35-36, 39-41, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Women in business; Businessmen

Record #:

4001

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

Partnership for the Sounds, founded in 1993 and based in Columbia, seeks to interest tourists traveling to the beaches in eco-tourism in Tyrrell, Hyde, Beaufort, and Bertie Counties.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 19 Issue 1, Jan 1999, p16,18-19, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Tourist trade; Ecotourism; Partnership for the Sounds (Columbia)

Record #:

11824

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

W. P. Hickman Co., headquartered in Asheville, is a runner-up in the 2009 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. Founded in 1945, the company employs fifty-two people and projects revenues in 2009 of $15 million. The company makes commercial-roof edging.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 29 Issue 12, Dec 2009, p62-63, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Small business--Asheville; Roofing industry--Asheville

Record #:

9646

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

Gray discusses how the state's economy got where it is and where it will go over the next twenty-years.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 26 Issue 10, Oct 2006, p84--88, 90, 92, 94-95, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--Economic conditions; Business forecasting

Record #:

5844

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

David Griffin, Jr. is vice-president of the family business, D. H. Griffin Wrecking. The company is the Southeast's largest and the country's third-largest wrecking company. Gray discusses the work of Griffin and the company at the clean-up of the World Trade Center in New York.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 6, June 2003, p38-49, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Construction industry--Greensboro; Wrecking--Greensboro; D.H. Griffin Wrecking (Greensboro)