Brendan Sherar is the developer of Biblio.com, an Asheville-based online marketplace for books. Now the third-largest company of its kind, the website sells and buys used, rare, out of print, and text books.
Bill Carl and James Maynard founded their first steakhouse in Fayetteville in 1973. A success from the start, Golden Corral is now one of the country's 100 fastest-growing private companies in the country.
The state's top seventy-five public companies are ranked by their May 1999 market value. Bank of America, First Union, and Duke Energy retained their first, second, and third rankings. RF Micro Devices made the biggest jump, moving from Number 59 to 19.