Record #:

2192

Author(s):

Wheeler, Vince

Abstract:

Stocks for fifty-one North Carolina companies, including Oakwood Homes and Lowe's, are rated over a five-year period. Twenty-six of the stocks had returns greater than that of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 15 Issue 3, Mar 1995, p18-22, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Stock price indexes; Stocks--Prices

Record #:

2214

Author(s):

Scheer, Lisa

Abstract:

Nicholas St. George is CEO of Greensboro-based Oakwood Homes, the nation's largest manufactured-housing retailer. St. George is the driving force behind the company's economic recovery; stock prices have risen from $3 in 1987 to $29.74 in 1994.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 15 Issue 3, Mar 1995, p24-36, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Mobile home industry; St. George, J. Nicholas, 1939-; Oakwood Homes Corp. (Greensboro)

Record #:

2216

Author(s):

Martin, Edward

Abstract:

Government deregulation of the trucking industry caused some trucking companies to fold. Earl Congdon, chairman of Old Dominion Freight Lines, Inc. in High Point, cites the absence of unionization as one factor contributing to his company's profitability

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 15 Issue 3, Mar 1995, p38-42, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Trucking; Congdon, Earl E., Jr.,; Old Dominion Freight Lines, Inc.