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16333
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In the 1970s, when polyester clothing was all the rage, Rocky Mount-based Texfi Industries, Inc. was flying high, with good profits and shares reaching as high as $68. Then consumers moved on to other styles and Texfi lost million over the next decade; by 1984 the company was down to three plants. Donsky describes how the new chairman and CEO, Terrell Sovey, turned the company into a profitable one again.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 5, May 1990,
p44-46, 48-52, por
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16275
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Bill Zimmer bought his first jewelry store in Wilmington in 1946 and changed the name to Reeds. By 1979 his family-owned company had grown to twenty-four stores. Nationwide there are 32,000 separately owned jewelry stores competing in a $13 billion market. Donsky describes what happened when son Alan Zimmer came into the business in the 1980s and took the company public and growing it to sixty-three stores.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 8, Aug 1989,
p52-54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, por
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3.The Jobs Machine Shifts Gears by Donsky, Martin Business North Carolina Vol. 9 Issue 4, April 1989
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24363
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Some industries are more influential than others. The growth of the automobile industry in North Carolina provides a useful example of how a single industry can impact overall growth and economic development in the state.
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13758
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine presents its first rankling of the state's largest employers. Sara Lee, a producer of baked good, hosiery, and other consumer products, ranked first with 22,000 employees. Food Lion was second with 21,700 employees.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 1, Jan 1991,
p16-20, 22, , il
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Record #:
13681
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In 1967 Ralph Ketner's supermarket chain of sixteen stores had dropped to seven and his profits totaled only $36,000. He was not certain he would be in business the following year. Yet he did not go under. Now, in 1990, at age 70, he is retiring as chairman of the board of the country's fastest-growing supermarket chain - Food Lion, which had sales of $4.7 billion in 1989. Donsky discusses the remarkable turnaround.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 4, Apr 1990,
p50-55, por
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Record #:
16268
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's annual ranking of the state's top fifty public companies reveals that in the last eight years seventy-five companies have appeared on the list. The twenty-five that are gone were sold, moved, or taken private. Food Lion, Lowe's Co., and Rose's Stores head this year's list.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 5, May 1989,
p18-19, 22, 24-31, 34-37, il
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Record #:
15692
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's annual ranking of the state's top fifty public companies reveals that the list has undergone its most extensive shakeup since the listings began in 1982. Last year's top three companies were RJR Nabisco, Burlington Industries, and Food Lion. This year Food Lion takes over the top ranking with Lowe's and Fieldcrest Cannon taking over the second and third positions.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 5, May 1988,
p70-72, 74-81, il
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Record #:
28936
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The Campaign Reporting Office of the North Carolina state Board of Elections processes reports of contributions and expenditures required to be filed under law. Two full-time clerks read the reports looking for errors and file the reports away. The clerks acknowledge that they take more of a passive approach to monitoring campaign finance.
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15608
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Wallace J. Conner is president and chairman of the board of Conner Homes Corporation of Newport, a company he began in 1959 with a single mobile home lot in Havelock. In 1964, he began manufacturing mobile homes from a plant in Newport and began building the company is a nationally-recognized leader in the mobile home industry. The company made $7 million in 1985, yet over the next eighteen months it lost $40 million. Donsky discusses how the country's fastest growing company in the mobile home industry stumbled and fell.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 2, Feb 1988,
p16-22, il
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Record #:
24361
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Mark Ethridge has extensive experience in journalism. He recently left ‘The Charlotte Observer,’ where he was managing editor, and now works at ‘The Business Journal,’ much smaller but a worthy contender in business reporting in North Carolina.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 11, November 1990,
p56-64, il
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Record #:
16328
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C. D. Spangler achieved fame and fortune in the world of business. Now he is moving into the academic world as president of the University of North Carolina System. Donsky discusses how well this change is going.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 2, Feb 1990,
p22-26, 29-30, 32-33, por
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