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36446
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When it comes to Belks’ contemporary company image, the word fashionable can be replaced with sustainable. Planting seeds of accountability toward the earth and environment is this corporation’s ecologically rooted endeavors. Endeavors exemplified were a volunteer farm stand, Common Grounds, and organic farm, Wild Hope Farm.
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13270
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William Henry Belk opened his first department store in Monroe in 1888. Womick recounts the history of the company founded by this pioneering merchant.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 7, Dec 2010, p42-46, 48, 50, 52, il, por Periodical Website
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7927
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Belk, Lowe's, and Food Lion are readily recognized as giants in their respective industries. Years before their customers numbered into the millions and their employees in the tens of thousands these three businesses were small, one-store, family-owned operations struggling to survive the challenges that all new businesses face. Westbrook discusses how each store developed and what each attributes its enormous success to.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 2, July 2006, p170-172, 174, il Periodical Website
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24393
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Belk stores have changed over time to keep up with customers’ wants, including opening new stores and remodeling old stores.
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32437
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Karl G. Hudson, Jr., executive vice president of Hudson-Belk Company in Raleigh, is active in business, civic and religious activities. This article discusses the history of the company, Hudson’s background, and his perspectives on retail business in Raleigh.
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13078
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Consisting of over 400 hundred corporations, spread across 16 states, the Belk Company, proprietors of the Belk Department Stores, is a family run operation that continues to expand. Undertaking his first commercial venture in 1888, William Henry Belk turned a dry goods store in Monroe, into the largest and most modern department store chain in the Carolinas.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 24 Issue 21, Mar 1957, p17-18, il
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12150
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William Henry Belk opened his first department store in Monroe, North Carolina, in 1888. Offering fixed prices instead of forced haggling, Belk's store flourished. Spreading to South Carolina by 1895, William Henry Belk had officially begun his franchise which would go on to total more than five hundred stores.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 24 Issue 14, Dec 1956, p20-21, il
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