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Lumberton-based Converse, Inc. is selling their canvas Chuck Taylor All-Stars as fast as they can produce them. Despite intense competition in the athletic shoe business, the future of both the company and its North Carolina workforce looks bright.
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The newest entry in North Carolina's $100 million dollar minor league sports enterprises is hockey. Bill Black, part-owner of the Greensboro Monarchs, is one of a number of businessmen who have expanded into professional sports.
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The state's independent filmmakers often have to make low-budget films just to make ends meet. However, as filmmakers become more business-smart and local investors understand the industry better, funding and film quality will improve.
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Larry Shaw built his business, Shaw Food Services, from scratch. 21 years later the company employs 650. Now a state legislator, Shaw promotes bills to help small businesses in rural and low income areas receive loans and financing.
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Dissatisfied with the performance of the state's public schools, business leaders, in such cities as Charlotte, are taking a more active roll in working for educational reform through volunteerism, money, and politics.
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The William C. Friday Fellowship for Human Relations is a two-year program designed to give emerging leaders an understanding of economic and social issues facing the state.
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By concentrating on drug store and mail order distribution, Stedman Stevens, president of Wilmington-based Rose Spice, Inc., has increased sales from $1 million in 1987 to a projected $20 million in 1996.
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Raleigh soil scientist Barrett Kays is planning and directing the restoration of a fifteen-acre oval known as the Great Lawn in New York City's Central Park. The $18.2 million restoration is scheduled for completion in 1997.
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In Greensboro, H. Michael Weaver's family has been involved in philanthropy, real estate, and construction for almost fifty years. The Weaver Foundation ranks in the state's top ten corporate foundations in assets and yearly giving.
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William R. Jordan is a physician and CEO of Lithotripters, Inc., a company that operates 29 mobile kidney stone crushers, which cost $1.7 million apiece. The company is the largest lithotriptic operator in the nation.