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8029
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In August 2006, Lew Ebert became the sixth president and CEO of North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI). A graduate of Millersville University, Ebert worked over twenty years for the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry in positions that included vice president of marketing. Before coming to North Carolina, he led the Kansas Chamber for three-and-one half years, significantly building up the organization's membership, doubling its yearly revenue, and tripling its reserves. He is best known for crafting tightly-focused legislative agendas based on the needs of members and empirical data.
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4130
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Earl N. Phillips, Jr., chairman and CEO of GE Capital First Factors of High Point, is the new chairman of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI) for 1999-2000. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1962 and later from Harvard Business School.
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13693
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Business executives of nine companies in the state have been selected as North Carolina Entrepreneurs of the Year and will be inducted as members of the American Institute of Entrepreneurs' hall of fame.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 7, July 1990,
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30190
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Steve DeCarlo turned Cooney Rikard & Curtin Inc., a sputtering insurance brokerage, into a market leader valued at more than two-billion dollars. The company takes a middleman role between property-casualty agents, who work directly with local businesses, and insurance companies that provide risk coverage. This article explains how DeCarlo and the company gained their success.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 36 Issue 5, May 2016,
p50-55, il, por
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After founding the Electronic Accounting Card Company in 1957, Edgar “Bucky†Snider sold his business to Control Data Corporation of Minneapolis in 1968, but remained, under terms of the $7 million dollar stock deal, as its President until January 1971. Snider then founded a new company, the High Point Electronic Card Company, whose success enabled him to buy his old company back from Control Data Corporation, which was now experiencing financial difficulties. Snider's new company, an amalgamation of his now expanded CDC division and his new High Point Electronic Card Company, was called NEC, or the National Electronic Card Company. NEC employs 120 persons at its High Point base, along with approximately 100 employees in it five branch plants.
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4793
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On November 14, 2000, the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct four outstanding business and government leaders. They are James H. Millis, Sr., chairman of the Millis Foundation; Harlan E. Boyles, retiring Treasurer of North Carolina; John M. Belk, chairman and CEO of Belk, Inc.; and R. Stuart Dickson, chairman of the executive committee of Ruddick Corp.
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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct four outstanding business and government leaders in the fall of 2000. They are James H. Millis, Sr., chairman of the Millis Foundation, High Point; R. Stuart Dickson, chairman of the executive committee of Ruddick Corp., Charlotte; John M. Belk, chairman of the board and CEO of Belk Inc., Charlotte; and Harlan E. Boyles, retiring Treasurer of North Carolina.
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Harold W. Whitcomb, Board Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee for Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. in Eden, is featured in We The People Magazine's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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10475
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Nello L. Teer, Jr., president of Nello L. Teer Company and its affiliates, is featured in WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S \"North Carolina Businessman in the News\". The company owns its own railroad (Durham and Southern); operates a large stone quarrying and crushing business; and a construction company. Nello L. Teer Sr. started the business in 1909 with a team of mules.
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11107
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John E. Reeves, a native of Mount Airy, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Reeves Brothers, Inc., which was founded in Mount Airy in the early 1920s by Micah R. and John M. Reeves. The company is one of the nation's larger textile manufacturing corporations. Reeves is featured in this month's WE THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE's North Carolina Businessman in the News.
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B. Franklin Skinner is the vice president and general manager for Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company’s North Carolina operations. Recently, Skinner proposed a rate increase to maintain the company’s service and to keep up with growth in North Carolina. This article discusses Skinner’s background, contributions to the telephone industry, and current issues facing Southern Bell.
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32228
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Arthur L. Becker is general manager of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) manufacturing facility in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. Since 1965, Becker has observed IBM’s significant contribution to the state’s economic growth. In this article, Becker discusses his background, mechanical and managerial abilities, and vision for the corporation.
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33044
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Charles Cline Peters is vice president for manufacturing of Federal Paper Board Company. He runs the company’s Forest Products Division, also known as the Riegelwood Operation, which encompasses one of the world’s largest fully bleached paperboard and pulp mills, and lumber mills. This article discusses Peters’ background in business and the Riegelwood Operation.
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Former North Carolina Senator, Charles H. Reynolds, is the president and chief executive officer of Spindale Mills, Inc. and Cherokee Textile Mills. Reynolds and other textile leaders are fighting against economic repression. This article discusses Reynolds background in politics and business, and presents his views on the challenges facing North Carolina’s textile industry.
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32442
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David C. Edmisten is vice president of Texasgulf’s Agricultural Chemicals Division in Raleigh. This article discusses Edmisten’s background in chemical engineering, and operations of the company. Texasgulf is mining phosphate rock at Lee Creek in Aurora for the development of fertilizer.
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