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North Carolina has a long history of wine making, dating back to Sir Walter Raleigh and his Roanoke Colony. Today there are 250 vineyards and 21 wineries in the state, with more in the planning stages. In 2000, over 500,000 gallons of wine were produced. North Carolina ranks tenth in the nation in wine production and twelfth in grape production. Annual retail sales of wine is $25 million.
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Charlotte's business community has an international flavor with foreign companies looking for new places to locate and Charlotte-based companies looking for new areas abroad. Currently 700 foreign companies have installations located in Charlotte. Of these, German companies total 165, the highest German investment area in the country.
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In 2000, the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation that allowed the state's public universities to develop research parks. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte created the Charlotte Research Institute, which occupies one hundred acres on campus. Since its creation, research dollars from foundations have increased and the university has become more widely recognized for its work in such areas as optics, precision metrology, and bioinformatics. UNCC's long-range goal is to become a full research university, much like UNC-Chapel Hill.
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North Carolina, the sixth most visited state in the country, attracts over 43 million tourists each year. The tourism industry pumps $12.6 billion a year into the state's economy and creates 194,000 jobs. It is also the state's second largest industry.
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Executives do not always have time to take full-fledged MBA courses. For businessmen who are time-pressed, North Carolina's colleges and universities offer a wealth of options to upgrade business skills. The article lists all of the state's MBA programs and includes the schools, enrollments in the program, types of programs offered, websites, and distinctions earned by the program.
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement features Stanly County. Although the county is generally rural, with farms, mountains, streams, and small towns, urban amenities are less than an hour away in Charlotte. The county has nine incorporated towns, with Albemarle as the county seat. Textiles brought prosperity to the county in the late 1890s, and today the textile industry remains the third largest private employer. Retail sale increased over the last five years, and the county is developing as a regional shopping area. The county school system had the state's highest K-12 test scores in 2005. The county has boundless tourism opportunities, including Morrow Mountain State Park.
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Charlotte, the nation's fifth-largest urban region and second-largest financial center, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's “community profile.†The city boasts tall buildings; the Carolina Panthers NFL team; the Carolina Bobcats NBA team; places for eating, shopping, living, world-class entertainment; and a wide choice of educational opportunities, including UNC-Charlotte, Central Piedmont Community College, which serves 70,000 students, and Johnson & Wales University, famous for its culinary and business schools.
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North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 62 Issue 11, Nov 2004,
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