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6886
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The North Carolina Department of Prisons inherited the making of license plates from the highway department in 1929. Plates were made at Central Prison in Raleigh until 2001 when the operation outgrew the facility. A new plant was built in 2001 at the Correctional Institution for Women in southeast Raleigh where plates are now made. It costs $1.51 to make a plate that sells for $20 a car and $30 if personalized. Last year the tag plant generated $4.1 million of revenue for the state.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 10, Oct 2004,
p72-77, il
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6894
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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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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 11, Nov 2004,
p58-63, il
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6945
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McGill Environmental of North Carolina, Inc., headquartered in Harrrells, in Sampson County, is a runner-up in the 2004 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. The company, founded in 1991 by Noel Lyons and James H. McGill, turns about 200,000 tons of waste a year into compost. The company employs 52 and projects revenues of $7 million in 2004.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 12, Dec 2004,
p39, por
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6952
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Thomas Built Buses, Inc., started in High Point in 1916 as a maker of streetcars. In 1936, the company began building buses and today is the world's largest school bus manufacturer. In August 2004, the company opened a new, $39.7 million plant. When operating at full capacity in 2005, experts expect it to produce about forty-four school buses a day.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 12, Dec 2004,
p44-49, il
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7093
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Bob Orr grew up in Hendersonville and has been executive director of the Raleigh-based North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law since 2003. Before assuming this position, he graduated from UNC Law School, served eight years on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and was in his second term on the North Carolina Supreme Court when he retired in 2003. Orr has strong feelings against economic incentives, an approach used by states and localities to attract businesses to their areas through tax breaks, money, and other inducements. Incentives allow corporations to play states against each other to receive extraordinary benefits. He hopes his institute will develop alternatives to this approach.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Mar 2005,
p22-23, il
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7097
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Tim Donley, a mechanical engineer by training and an accomplished player of old mountain tunes, makes and repairs violins. He opened his shop in Charlotte in 2000 and by 2002, had run out of space. Now settled in Charlotte's 1890s Elizabeth neighborhood, Donley discusses his work and creations.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Mar 2005,
p56-61, il
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7179
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In the business community most of the CEO positions are filled by men. Of the fourteen Fortune 500 companies in North Carolina, only one has a woman CEO. Only three of the top seventy companies based in the state have female CEOs, and the state's top one hundred private companies list but two. Martin discusses reasons for this and lists women in the state who have the potential to make the top rung on the ladder.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 4, Apr 2005,
p32-40, 42-43, por
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7280
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Sally Kay, a 1988 graduate of Clemson University, is president of The Hosiery Association. After graduation, she worked in the hospitality industry in Charlotte. In 1990, she went to work for what was then known as the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers. In 2001, she was elected the association's first woman president. The 300 association members make and distribute approximately 85 percent of the country's hosiery. About half of the hosiery mills are located in North Carolina. Kay discusses some of her job activities.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 7, July 2005,
p24, por
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7313
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As a young man, Donald Haack hunted diamonds in exotic places. Haack, former chairman of Charlotte's Foreign Trade Zone and World Trade Association, is the founder of Donald Haack's Diamonds and Fine Gems in Charlotte. The business employs eighteen and an average sale is between $6,000 and $10,000. Haack recently published a book called BUSH PILOT IN DIAMOND COUNTRY, which recounts his life a diamond miner, trader, and broker.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 6, June 2005,
p25-26, il
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7338
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A paper mill built on the Pigeon River in 1905 brought prosperity to the town of Canton for nearly a century, though the plant pumped pollutants into the river for years. Threats of lawsuits by two states and the federal government forced the company into fifteen years of pollution remediation. This, coupled with depressed paper prices and increasing competition, brought the mill to the verge of a shutdown in 1997when the mill was put up for sale. In 1999, the employees and their union bought it.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 7, July 2005,
p34-43, il
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7404
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A Navy plan to build a practice landing field in Washington and Beaufort Counties has county residents up in arms. The proposed landing field is on 30,000 acres next to the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge where thousands of migrating birds spend the winter.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 9, Sept 2005,
p38-44, 47-49, il
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In 2004, Robert Crabb, Jr., and a group of investors purchased the Carolina Stockyards from Howard and Harry Horney, who had owned it since 1950. Located in Siler City, the stockyard sold about $40 million in livestock in 2004, which included 86, 673 head of cattle, 4,700 goats, a few horses, and one llama. Commissions on sales averaged about 2.7 percent.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 9, Sept 2005,
p50-55, il
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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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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 11, Nov 2005,
p66-71, il
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7501
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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
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7637
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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
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