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IKEA, founded by Ingvar Kamprad of Sweden, is the top furniture retailer in the world, with more than 250 stores in 34 countries and sales in excess of $22 billion annually. It is a privately held company. The company recently announced a Charlotte location opening in 2009. The 345,000-square-foot IKEA Charlotte will occupy 25 acres and employ over 400. IKEA stores in Atlanta, Georgia and Woodbridge, Virginia are the closest to North Carolina at present.
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North Carolina has outstanding health care systems that offer unique and innovative programs, specialized centers, and firsts, like robotic surgery at Pitt County Memorial Hospital. However, it is no longer enough for hospitals to have the latest in care and technology; they have to let prospective patients know what is available. Maurer discusses marketing strategies hospitals use.
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3.From Breaking Things to Making Things by Wood, Suzanne M. North Carolina Vol. 65 Issue 2, Feb 2007
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Wood profiles Mark Munday, CEO of Elster Electricity. The company sells electric metering products and systems and services to utilities and industries around the world. Munday is a technical innovator who knows how to manage, inspire, and motivate people.
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The Fit Community initiative, sponsored by the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, rewards cities and towns for their active promotion and support of healthy eating, physical activity and tobacco-free living. $1 million in grants will be available to municipalities across the state through 2007. Participating cities and towns can receive up to $60,000 for programs during the two-year period.
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Hospital wellness programs help their own employees and those of regional businesses focus on healthy lifestyles, which include healthy eating, exercise, and disease management. Maurer examines wellness programs: WakeMed's, which began in 1986, in Raleigh; Duke University Medical Center's program, now in operation for twenty-one years, in Durham; and Mission Hospital's, which began eight years ago, in Asheville.
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement features New Hanover County. The population is expanding, business is hot, and Wilmington and New Hanover County are booming. The economy is strong and diverse, with a good manufacturing base, a good service base, and strong residential development. The New Hanover Health Network, with over 450 physicians and 4,700 employees, makes a $1 billion economic impact on the area. City and county leaders promote and support new growth by working to improve the community's infrastructure. Wilmington's National Register Historic Districts, covering over 230 blocks, attract many tourists.
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Brody is a well-known name in Greenville. For years the family operated Brody's, a successful chain of six department stores. The Brody Medical School at East Carolina University was named for them, for their lifelong support of the school. David Brody worked in the retail chain until its sale to Proffitts in 1998. He is now a successful real estate developer. His company, Brody Associates, is a partner in the La Promenade shopping center in Greenville and the Mayfaire mixed-used development in Wilmington.
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Charles Kuralt's love of the outdoors developed from his years of growing up in North Carolina and his later travels across America. One of the most popular features of his CBS television program, \"Sunday Morning,\" was the last five-minute segment in which he brought the beauty of the nation's National Wildlife Refuges and other wilderness landscapes to millions of viewers. To honor his efforts, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service created the Charles Kuralt Trail, which links eleven national wildlife refuges and one national fish hatchery. The trail winds though the coastal plain of Virginia and North Carolina, and includes the Great Dismal Swamp and Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge.
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Barry Everland, immediate past chair of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI) board and retired IBM senior state executive, has been named interim president/CEO of NCCBI effective January 1, 2006. Phil Kirk, former president and CEO of the organization, resigned to seek new opportunities in December 2005, after sixteen years in the position. Everland, who retired from IBM in March 2005, had thirty-nine years experience with the company in manufacturing and logistics.
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The Carolina Film and Video Festival is one of the nation's oldest. Now in its twenty-ninth year, the festival is hosted every February by the cinema and broadcasting school at UNC-Greensboro. Durham's Carolina Theatre holds a series of festivals through the year beginning in February and ending in October.
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Sandon Dennis made wine as a hobby in 1997. When the local Lutheran Church in Albemarle began using it for communion, parishioners started to meet Dennis in the parking lot after the service to buy bottles. In 1998, Cornell University researchers discovered the wine had the fourth highest levels of the antioxidant resveratrol that they had ever tested. Dennis soon left his job in computer consulting to become a full-time winemaker. Dennis Vineyards produces 26,000 gallons of wine a year, all produced from the sweet Muscadine grape native to North Carolina.
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This special NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile supplement features Stanly County. Although the county is generally rural, with farms, mountains, streams, and small towns, urban amenities are less than an hour away in Charlotte. The county has nine incorporated towns, with Albemarle as the county seat. Textiles brought prosperity to the county in the late 1890s, and today the textile industry remains the third largest private employer. Retail sale increased over the last five years, and the county is developing as a regional shopping area. The county school system had the state's highest K-12 test scores in 2005. The county has boundless tourism opportunities, including Morrow Mountain State Park.
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Bill Johnson, president and COO of Progress Energy Inc., is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. Johnson has served the company in a number of capacities since 1992, including group president for energy delivery, president and CEO for Progress Energy Service.
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Methodist College (Fayetteville), North Carolina State University (Raleigh), Campbell University (Buies Creek), and Queens College (Charlotte) offer professional golf management majors aimed at preparing students at careers as golf professionals. The programs combine business, liberal arts, and golf course work. The Professional Golfers Association requires graduates to pass a player ability test since much golf management includes teaching golf lessons. All four programs have substantial internship requirements of sixteen months.
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The horse industry is good for North Carolina's economy, producing annual revenues of over $750 million and creating more than 10,000 jobs. Activities range from rustic trail rides in the Appalachians to elegant events. North Carolina's four steeplechases are the most elegant of all. They are Stoneybrook (Raeford); Block House Races (Tryon); Queens Cup (Mineral Springs); and Brookhill (Clayton). Racing is a small part of the industry. Horseshows are very popular, with state equestrian centers sponsoring them across the state every weekend.
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