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28755
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Art Pope and the success of his discount chain store Roses are profiled. The chain store has succeeded where others have failed and the store continues to do well despite the recent problems in the retail industry nationwide.
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10166
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P. H. Rose created a family business that grew into a retail giant. He started in 1915, in Henderson, opening stores that would eventually bear the name Rose's. During the chain's heyday in the 1960s and 1970s sales grew from $54 million to over $500 million.
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4446
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Employment is high in North Carolina; consumer prices are low; and retail sales are up. For the fiscal year ending June 1999, retail sales were up $126.3 billion or 8 percent from 1998. Retail areas posting gains included department stores, up 13.4 percent to $2.3 billion; discount stores, up 7.4 percent to $7.1 billion; and auto sales, up 13.4 percent to $7.8 billion.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 2, Feb 2000,
p93-95, il
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24307
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Danny and Pam Jones owned and operated a retail business and worked with Champion Products, a Winston-Salem based retail company. The Jones' never signed a formal contract with the company, however, and when Sara Lee took over, the Jones' lost millions.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 1, January 1998,
p42-49, il
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3025
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Retail chains competing with Wal-Mart often find sales declining. However, results are mixed for two state-based retailers - Cato and Family Dollar - with Cato struggling and Family Dollar continuing to expand.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 16 Issue 7, July 1996,
p22,24-25, il
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3127
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The retail industry is a large part of the state's economy, producing around ten percent of the gross state product and employing 625,000 people, or twenty percent of the workforce. In the last decade retail has created over 128,000 jobs.
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2151
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Led by durable goods, like appliances, cars, and trucks, retail sales rebounded statewide to $78 billion in 1994, compared to $71.2 billion in 1993. However, weak apparel sales and new competition hurt chain stores like Cato's and Family Dollar Stores.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 15 Issue 2, Feb 1995,
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24337
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Sports Endeavors Inc. is the nation’s biggest soccer catalogue retailer and was the brainchild of teenager Mike Moylan. Now, the company, based out of Hillsborough, is worth fifteen million dollars and employs forty people.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 13 Issue 5, May 1993,
p54-62, il
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24356
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Wayland Cato Jr. owns the Charlotte-based discount retailer Cato Corporation. The family-based business has experienced many ups and downs over the years.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 12, December 1991,
p40-46, il
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12167
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Lucius H. Harvin, III, is president and CEO of Rose's Stores, a firm founded by his grandfather, P. H. Rose, in 1915. He is only the fourth person to lead this family-owned retail chain of 240 stores which employ around 13,000 people in thirteen southeastern states. Rose is featured in We the People of North Carolina magazine Businessman in the News section.
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12118
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John W. Pope went into business with five small variety stores and built it into a chain of 326 stores under the name of Variety Wholesalers, Inc. Pope is President, Chairman and CEO of the Raleigh-based company. Stores operating under the Variety banner include Pope, Eagle, United, Value Mart, and Super-Dollar Stores.
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13295
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In 1962 the Record Bar was a single mom-and-pop store in a dying section of downtown Durham. By 1982, it had grown into the second-largest national retail chain in the record industry with sales in 1981 of $65 million. The retail chain has 136 stores in twenty-eight states.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 2, Feb 1982,
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11710
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Mack's Stores, Inc., a variety chain store, began operations in Sanford in December 1923. Today, Mack's operates ninety-six stores in the North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia. The company employs over 1,600 and projected sales for 1977 are expected to exceed $45 million.
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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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11049
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John T. Church, senior vice president and secretary and merchandising manager of Henderson-based Rose's, is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S North Carolina Businessman in the News. He served two terms in the North Carolina General Assembly House of Representatives from Vance County, and this year he will return as a State Senator representing the 7th Senatorial District.
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