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16613
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Martin describes the work performed by Carolina Eye Prosthetics, Inc., a family owned business located in Burlington. It is one of only about three hundred worldwide that makes artificial eyes.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 4, Apr 2012,
p64-71, il
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16662
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Alcoa Power Generating, Inc. received a 50-year lease in 1958 to generate hydropower on the Yadkin River. Four dams were built to power the nearby Alcoa aluminum plant which employed 1,000 in Stanly County and the town of Badin. The lease expired in 2008, and the plant closed in 2002. The dams still generate power which nets millions in profit yearly for Alcoa. The dams belong to Alcoa but the water belongs to North Carolina. The governor and Stanly County officials opposed renewal of the lease because the company is making money but not putting much back into the area. The dispute is now in the courts.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 1, Jan 2012,
p36-41, il, por, map
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16867
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The Bank of Granite grew from one office in Granite Falls in the foothills of Western North Carolina with five employees and $1 million in assets in the 1950s to one with nineteen offices with over 250 employees and $1 billion in assets by the early 2000s. It was solid as a rock, but it failed. Martin discusses reasons for its collapse.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 6, June 2012,
p48-55, il, por
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16868
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Martin describes the nearly completed new casino complex owned by the Cherokee tribe in Western North Carolina. It will feature the largest hotel in the state with over 1,000 rooms, four restaurants, an increase in size of the gaming floor to 150,000 square feet, and a 3,000-seat live entertainment center. It will add 700 jobs to the already 1,700 people employed and have a great financial impact on the local economy.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 6, June 2012,
p60-65, il
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17170
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Consumers in this country used over one hundred billion aluminum cans a year. The colors on the cans come from the INX International Ink Company plant in Charlotte. The factory, the world's largest producer of ink used to decorate the cans, ships about 50,000 pounds of ink a day.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 7, July 2012,
p54-59, il
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17378
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At Nag's Head Jenrette's Pier juts one thousand feet in the ocean and features wind power and geothermal heating. It replaces a pier heavily damaged by Hurricane Isabel in 2003. The original was built in 1939 by William Jenrette an Elizabeth City fruit and produce wholesaler. The structure will help to preserve the architecture, history and culture of North Carolina's coast.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 9, Sept 2012,
p70-75, il
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18067
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Martin describes the Carolina Renaissance Festival which is held in Charlotte each fall for seven straight weekends. Over 170,000 attended last year to see jousts, look at vendors' wares, and enjoy the food.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 10, Oct 2012,
p62-67, il
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18378
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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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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 12, Dec 2012,
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18380
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Fuentek LLC, a technology-transfer service located in Apex, is a runner-up in the 2012 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. Laura Schoppe owns the company which employs nine salaried and twenty-one contractors. Founded in 2001, the company projects $1 million in revenues in 2012.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 12, Dec 2012,
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18385
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New Finish Inc. is a runner-up in the 2012 Business North Carolina Small Business of the Year competition. Founded in 2001 by Steve and Brenda Bradley and headquartered in Norwood, New Finish is a metal powder coating and electrocoating company which employs fifty. The company projects revenues of $4.5 million in 2012.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 12, Dec 2012,
p56-57, por
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18386
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Prima Tech USA Inc. is a runner-up in the 2012 Business North Carolina Small Business of the Year competition. Founded in 1996 by Kim Quinn and headquartered in Kenansville, the company designs, assembles, and sells animal-health applicators and related products. Prima Tech employs over forty and projects revenues of over $10 million in 2012.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 12, Dec 2012,
p58-59, por
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18829
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA presents its annual ranking of the top 100 private-sector employers in the state. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., with 50,070 employees, and Duke University, with 46, 075, ranked first and second.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 2, Feb 2013,
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18831
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Sue and Hal Brownfield are engineers--her degree from the University of Michigan, his from West Point. After working in the auto industry, they formed Andrew Pearson Industries, Inc., in 1989. The name is a combination of his middle and his mother's maiden name. In 1994 the company moved to Mt. Airy where it makes architectural and decorative glasswork.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 2, Feb 2013,
p58-63, il, por
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19256
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Business North Carolina ranks the state's best hospitals; patients pick theirs; and U.S. News & World Report ranks state hospitals by their specialties nationwide and lists the state's Standout Hospitals that perform higher than the national norm in certain adult specialties. There is also some discussion of pay-for-performance contracts that prevail between hospitals and insurers.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 3, Mar 2013,
p42-49, il
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19259
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In 2010, Stanly Furniture Company brought its Young America line back from Asia to its plant in Robbinsville. In 2013, Stanly will complete its headquarters move from Stanlytown, VA, to High Point. While Stanly will continue to make high-end adult furniture at its Asia plant for citizens of Southeast Asia, the Young America line, including youth beds and cribs, was brought back for quality control. These products are subject to more recalls and consumer scrutiny than regular furniture.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 3, Mar 2013,
p66-71, il
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