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24364
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Rocky Mount, once a slumbering tobacco and railroad town, has grown as a result of out-of-state manufacturing companies building plants in the area. The Hardees enterprise also helped the local economy after establishing its headquarters in Rocky Mount.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 4, April 1989,
p24-31, il
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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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15690
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Donsky discusses how traffic congestion is affecting North Carolina, such as the state's high reputation for quality of life, whether companies considering relocation to the state will come, and what the economy will allow the state and major cities to do to alleviate the situation. North Carolina now ranks as the tenth most populous state, and growth continues.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 5, May 1988,
p46-49, 53, 55-57, il
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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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15699
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Donsky discusses the operation of short line railroads in the state. Short lines are small or mid-size companies that operate over short distances, for example, forty-seven miles, as compared to a national company having thousands of miles of track. The NC Department of Transportation lists nine short lines in the state with the oldest being the Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad, founded in 1892.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 6, June 1988,
p20-25, 27-29, il, map
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24382
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DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group is housed in Wilmington, North Carolina and owns seven soundstages. It produced seven of the twenty-two movies filmed in the state in 1987, causing North Carolina to be fourth in the nation in terms of movie-making profits. Now, the company is struggling financially, which may have a negative effect on bringing in future movie-makers to the state.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 4, April 1988,
p16-22, il
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24389
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Hand Held Products is a Charlotte-based company that specializes in computer technology and made a splash in the market after creating the Micro-Wand, the gadget FedEx uses to keep track of packages it delivers. This article discusses how the company hopes to make more products and increase its revenues.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 7, July 1988,
p36-43, il
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24392
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North Carolina brokerages discuss how they bounced back after the stock market crash of 1987.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 12, December 1988,
p28-32, il
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15592
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Donsky profiles Roger Soles, who has worked for Jefferson-Pilot Corp., of Greensboro, one of the Southeast's dominant insurers, for forty years. He was named chairman and chief executive officer in 1967.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 7 Issue 12, Dec 1987,
p16-20, 22-23, il, por
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24404
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Interstate Securities Inc., a Charlotte-based securities brokerage, was founded in 1932 and run the same way until Craig Redwine became president and decided to shake things up by having a say in every aspect of how the company is run. This article discusses what the business is going through after Redwine’s changes.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 7 Issue 11, November 1987,
p16-31, il
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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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