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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct four outstanding business leaders in the fall of 2001. They are: Edward E. Crutchfield (Charlotte), former chairman of First Union Corp; C. Felix Harvey (Kinston), chairman of Harvey Enterprises and Affiliates; W. Duke Kimbrell (Gastonia), chairman and CEO of Parkdale Mills; and Dalton L. McMichael (Madison), former chairman of Mayo Yarns.
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J. Keith Crisco is president, chairman, and co-founder of Asheboro Elastics Corporation. The company, founded in 1986, has a workforce of around 150 and makes knitted elastic for textile, furniture, and other industries. Crisco is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's \"executive profile.\"
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5144
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North Carolina has a long history of wine making, dating back to Sir Walter Raleigh and his Roanoke Colony. Today there are 250 vineyards and 21 wineries in the state, with more in the planning stages. In 2000, over 500,000 gallons of wine were produced. North Carolina ranks tenth in the nation in wine production and twelfth in grape production. Annual retail sales of wine is $25 million.
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Historic Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, located in the heart of the Piedmont Triad, are discussed in this NORTH CAROLINA magazine community profile, which highlights the area's strong emphasis on education, support of established and developing businesses, and shift from a manufacturing area to a more service-oriented one.
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The Piedmont Triad Research Park opened in 1994 with the purpose of finding causes and cures of life-threatening diseases and developing new computer technology. Idealliance was created in 1999 to manage growth in the park. Currently ten biomedical and five information technology businesses and four support service companies occupy the site.
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Krispy Kreme, the Winston-Salem doughnut company, was privately held from 1937 till 2000, when it went public and began expanding its territory. Now in twenty-nine states, Krispy Kreme will open thirty-two new stores in Canada in 2001. Retail outlets are currently making three million doughnuts a day and in 2000 generated revenues of $300 million.
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