Sageworks Inc. CEO Brian Hamilton holds seminars with prisoners in North Carolina to discuss how they can start their own businesses and improve their lives.
Sonny Wilburn, president of the Alamance County Chamber of Commerce, hoped Mercedes-Benz would build its first American factory in North Carolina. The German company involved a number of states in a bidding competition which would ultimately decide where the factory would be built.
Nearly three years after the completion if I-40, many rural counties are still waiting for an influx of jobs and development. Areas around Raleigh and Wilmington, however, have grown.
Sports Endeavors Inc. is the nation’s biggest soccer catalogue retailer and was the brainchild of teenager Mike Moylan. Now, the company, based out of Hillsborough, is worth fifteen million dollars and employs forty people.
Though the condition of the Neuse River has improved over the years after textile mills and other factories stopped dumping waste into it, environmentalists agree it has a long way to go before the river quality is back to what it should be.
Duke University Medical Center is the cutting edge location for heart surgery. This article examines the costs of operations and who ends up paying for them.
Maceo K. Sloan and Justin F. Beckett run NCM Capital Management Group Inc., a minority-run group of money managers. The men overcame many difficulties in order to set up their business and achieve the success they are experiencing today.
Wayland Cato Jr. owns the Charlotte-based discount retailer Cato Corporation. The family-based business has experienced many ups and downs over the years.
The experience of Mickie Davis, a Burnsville citizen who works in the Outboard Marine Corporation factory exemplifies wider trends of changing industry in North Carolina, in which the textile industry is giving way to the transportation and communications industry.
A Charlotte infertility clinic, the Center for Reproductive Medicine, ran into trouble after mismanaging their money. Such medical facilities are still are still primarily businesses that need to demonstrate good management skills in order to achieve success.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. CEO F. Ross Johnson moved the company headquarters and mounted a management buyout. This ultimately shocked Winston-Salem citizens, since the company brought much-needed business to the city.