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7449
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In 2004, approximately 7,800 tobacco farmers raised $588 million of tobacco on 151,000 acres. Martin provides a season-by-season look at North Carolina's most labor-intensive crop.
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North Carolina's one hundred largest employers for 2005 range from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., ranked first, with over 47,845 workers, to The Gap, Inc., which, with 1,870 employees, was ranked at one hundred. The companies are either privately, publicly, or foreign owned. They offer such products and services as textiles, wood products, meat processing, and telecommunications. As manufacturing continues to decline and move out of North Carolina, more service sector jobs, which are not portable, were added to the list.
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Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 26 Issue 2, Feb 2006, p16-19 Magazine Supplement, il Periodical Website
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Located in Charlotte, the Hyatt Coin and Gun Shop is the country's largest independent gun store.
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Turning House Millworks, located in Landis, and its sister company, Turning House Furniture in Bassett, Virginia, convert long-abandoned non-historic mills and factories into building materials. In so doing, the company saves thousands and thousands of trees. The company recently introduced its furniture collection made from rare and extinct vintage wood rescued from the old buildings.
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Autobell Car Wash, Inc., founded in Charlotte in 1969 by the late Chuck Howard, Sr. and currently overseen by his son Chuck, Jr., is the nation's largest regional car-wash chain. Still privately owned, the company recently opened its sixty-first wash. Each new one costs an average of $2 million.
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Rick's Auto Marketing Center is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine 2005 North Carolina Small Business of the Year. Richard Yow founded the Carthage company, which sells formerly leased vehicles, in 1987. He started the company with four used cars and $800 in his pocket. The company has ten full-time employees, plus part-timers, and projects revenues in 2005 of $4 million.
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Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 12, Dec 2005, p28-30, 32, 34, 36-37, il Periodical Website
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Fletcher, North Carolina based Legacy Paddlesports LLC is one of the most prominent brands of kayak in the world. More than a decade after its launching, the company now merged with Native and Heritage brands of Greensboro, is expanding and bringing a new plant to the Green River, where inspiration first struck.
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David and Jill Johnson founded Johnson Nursery Corp in Willard, in 1980. It is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's 2012 North Carolina Small Business of the Year. The company employs about eighty. This year the nursery will sell to over 400 wholesale customers about a million pots of flowers and ornamentals worth about $5.5 million.
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Many people associate Durham with tobacco, but few know that the world's most powerful jet engine is built there. GE Transportation-Aircraft Engines builds the GE90, an engine with 115,000 pounds of thrusting power that is equivalent to the power of forty corporate jets. The jets are built mostly by hand on an assembly line that moves about three feet. Most engines power commercial airliners, but some are used by the military.
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"Changing the State's quirky liquor system churns debate, but lucrative transfers to government coffers repel calls for reform." Current criticism is focussed on the North Carolina ABC Commission's contract with a private Missouri company which operates the state-owned central warehouse in Raleigh.
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North Carolina recently had twenty-four hospitals listed in four national magazines, whose rankings in a variety of areas are widely followed. These magazines included U.S. News and World Report and Modern Maturity. To further refine the list, BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA asked Health Grades to examine state hospitals and rank the ten best in the following categories: cardiac, vascular, and orthopedic procedures.
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Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 3, Mar 2003, p20-24, 26, 28-29, 32, il Periodical Website
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The closing of Eden’s MillerCoors negatively impacted the town’s other large business, Morehead Memorial Hospital. Its closing served as a reminder of factors that leave towns like Eden and its rural Rockingham County economically vulnerable, such as brain drain and the rural-urban divide. Believed reasons why it closed included Anheuser-Busch In-Bev’s purchased SAB-Miller not having competition. Believed reasons why it remains closed includes the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina favoring cities.
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With a large international business community, professional sports teams, and major business relocations, Charlotte is nationally recognized. Yet the city preserves a sense of community that supports changes and rapid growth.
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North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 55 Issue 8, Aug 1997, p16-18, 22,26,30,32-37, il
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Murchison "Bo" Biggs is past president of the N.C. Free Enterprise Foundation. In December 2019, he was elected chairman of the Golden LEAF Foundation. Biggs is secretary-treasurer of K.M Biggs in Lumberton.
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Earlier this year, Rebecca Williams with grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council and N.C. arts Council, completed her documentary film on the story of Beacon Manufacturing in Swannanoa. The facility, built in 1936, was destroyed by fire in 2003. She is hoping it will air on public television and in museums and schools in the coming months. Beacon was once the nation's largest blanket mill. Williams film is entitled "Blanket Town".
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