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24420
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This article discusses how businesses lower travel costs when travelling for sales meetings. Employees fly economy, choose cheaper red eye flights, or drive long distances.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 3 Issue 4, April 1983,
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28577
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Bob Crumley, an Asheboro lawyer and president of Founder’s Hemp, and Bruce Perlowin, an ex-con and Las Vegas-based Hemp Inc. CEO, expect hemp to be a billion dollar industry in North Carolina. Part of their mission is to educate people on the use of hemp in thousands of products including clothing, paper, textiles and food.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 37 Issue 3, March 2017,
p22-23, il, por
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36231
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Building a quality workplace has become about fulfilling needs such as attracting and retaining talent, managing costs, and promoting engagement and productivity. Hill, Chesson, and Woody believes these needs can be fulfilled by offering solutions tailored to each business’ objectives; program effectiveness and efficiency; employees’ well-being; cross-industry services. Asserting its approach’s success were awards such as the American Heart Association’s Fit-Friendly Company and Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility.
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36249
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Redefining the meaning and location of workplace were employees called super-commuters or road warriors by the author. Included in his discussion of this occupational trend: the Great Recession surge; super-commuter characteristics; cultural changes yielding the acceptance of super-commuting; and profilers of three commuters. 12-14
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36259
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The nine individuals interviewed represented the Carolina Biological Supply Company, Ward and Smith PA, Family Enterprise Center, Capel Inc., Conrad Industries, TradeMark Properties Inc., and Qualified Builders Inc. Topics included growing up in the family business, other career paths explored, family business histories, challenges unique to family-owned businesses, and how they anticipated keeping their family businesses for the next generation.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 37 Issue 7, July 2017,
p24-28, 30
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36263
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UNC system research and startup businesses generated over 2.6 billion dollars and created over 28,000 jobs. Also yielded were medical advancements such as gene therapy, businesses like GI Therapeutics, Inc., and protective measures of the state’s ecosystems aimed to improve oyster growth.
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43545
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This article is about the purchase of the Maola Milk and Ice Cream Co. in New Bern by Harvey Barns from F. E. Mayo, from Washington NC. The name of the company Maola came from the original owners first name combined with Coca-Cola because the original owner owned a Coca-Cola bottling company. The Maola company was struggling in its early years because of a lack of capital but this did not make Harvey Barns to give up. Through the sheer will and his sales abilities Harvey was able to inspire his employees to help push the company through this difficult time. The next obstacle that Harvey Barns was faced with was opening the first milk pasteurizing plant in the four-county region of Craven, Pamlico, Carteret, Beaufort counties. Through the help of the local women’s and health associations to educate the locals on the benefits of pasteurized milk.
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The author is discussing how the president of Nirosteel LLC based in Charlotte was going to be able to run his company with the new tariffs on steel that the Trump Administration created. This fear is shared by other companies around NC because the Trump Administration created a blanket tax of 25% on both steel and aluminum. The chairman of North Carolina District Export Council, Wayne Cooper, stated that companies should worry about the steel and aluminum tax because the cost will increase one it funnels through the local markets. Many companies are worrying if they will be able to keep their companies afloat with the new tax.
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