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5060
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In the last eighteen months Cleveland County has lost 900 jobs, and in January 2001, its unemployment rate topped 8.2 percent. However, an incentives package offered Wal-Mart by Cleveland County and the city of Shelby will soon reverse that. The company will begin construction of a huge distribution center in 2001. When completed in 2002, the center will employ 500. It is Cleveland County's largest industrial expansion in forty years.
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S & D Coffee Co. of Concord, which has been owned by the Davis family since 1927, is the country's third largest supplier to the food-service industry. The company filled this niche when brands like Maxwell House abandoned food-service for supermarket sales. Recently the company named its first non- family member CEO, Ron Hinson, who started with the company on a truck route twenty-one years ago.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 10, Oct 2000,
p56-57, 59-60, 62-65, il, por
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5031
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Hugh McColl, CEO of NationsBank, retired April 25, 2001. He is credited with building the bank into the nation's largest. Named CEO of NationsBank's predecessor, NCNB, in 1983, McColl took a bank with $12 billion in assets and built it, through mergers and acquisitions, into one with assets of $642 billion and 140,000 employees.
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement discusses Cabarrus County. Although the county has a diversified economy, two plants that were pillars of the economy closed recently and dealt the county a blow. Pillowtex shutdown completely, and Corning, Inc., halted production and furloughed 800 employees. However, retail growth, an airport that is the state's fourth busiest, and being a mecca for motorsports is helping the county rebound. County residents enjoy ample opportunities for education and outstanding healthcare.
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Corning, Inc., is building the world's largest fiber plant near Concord in Cabarrus County. The project will create 475 new jobs by 2004 and will account for almost $1 billion in county tax value. The plant makes fiber optic cable, which is used to transmit data in high-speed communications networks.
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In the fall of 2004, Johnson & Wales University, the nation's premier hospitality and career college, will open a campus in uptown Charlotte. This is a big economic success for the city. The university will bring 3,000 students and employees into the central business district. J & W will spend $82 million to build the university. At full enrollment in 2007, it will have a $60 million impact on the city.
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Sandon Dennis made wine as a hobby in 1997. When the local Lutheran Church in Albemarle began using it for communion, parishioners started to meet Dennis in the parking lot after the service to buy bottles. In 1998, Cornell University researchers discovered the wine had the fourth highest levels of the antioxidant resveratrol that they had ever tested. Dennis soon left his job in computer consulting to become a full-time winemaker. Dennis Vineyards produces 26,000 gallons of wine a year, all produced from the sweet Muscadine grape native to North Carolina.
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Graham Denton began his banking career in 1971 with Bank of America. Today he is president of the Bank of America in Charlotte. The bank is the nation's largest retail bank. Denton is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile.
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Dr. Algeania Freeman has been named Livingstone College's eleventh president. She is also the first female president of the 1,100-student institution. Livingstone, a private, church-supported, historically black college, was founded in 1879.
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A number of cities are building convention centers to boost their local economies. Wiiliams-Tracy discusses some of these cities, including Greenville and Charlotte, that have opted for this approach.
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When some school systems have a school construction design that meets their meets, they often reuse it in constructing other buildings. The architect still does design work to make sure the plan meets new guidelines and site conditions. Advantages to reuse include saving design fees and reduced time to complete construction. Williams-Tracy describes how Pender County and Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Systems reuse school construction plans.
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement discusses Montgomery County, the state's geographic center. Williams-Tracy describes the county's awesome beauty and welcoming business climate, two features that make the area a unique place to work, live, and play.
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Central Piedmont Community College, located in Charlotte, received a $500,000 grant from Congress to start an academy to train seasoned law enforcement officers in criminal forensics. Forensics is the practice of applying science to law.
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Educational opportunities are on the rise in Charlotte's metropolitan area. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is building a $30 million uptown classroom building that will swell enrollment from the present 650 students to 7,500. Wake Forest is moving its Charlotte MBA program from South Park to an uptown, 30,000-square-foot building in 2008. Johnson & Wales, which opened in 2004, expects enrollment to reach 5,000 in 2008.
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With six stories and 600,000 square feet of floor space, the Loray Mills in Gastonia was once the South's largest textile mill. Now owned by Preservation North Carolina, the old mill is being restored. The project calls for 240 condominiums, restaurants, office space, retail space, and a possible hotel. Developers plan to begin work on the project in 2001.
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