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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently let their basketball coach, Matt Doherty, go. Murray discusses reasons for this and the future of the basketball program at the school.
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Pat Henry was offered a medical school scholarship to Harvard, but declined because she wanted a business career. She joined the Miller Brewing Company in Eden in 1977, and in 1992 became the first woman brew-master of a major American brewery. Today she is the plant manager. Henry is profiled in this BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA feature.
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Century Furniture in Hickory has been operating since 1947, making custom pieces for a hefty price, even though the furniture industry in North Carolina has decreased since 1993.
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A round-table discussion, moderated by Murray, discusses whether promoting biotechnology in other sections of North Carolina will weaken its base in the Research Triangle region.
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Eastern North Carolina traditionally has been an agricultural area, with industrialization a later development. Former Governor James B. Hunt describes what must be done, including improving education, providing job skills training, and building infrastructure, to keep this area from falling behind the rest of the state.
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In 1976, Grant Dial, a Maxton native and Lumbee Indian, quit college with one semester remaining to begin making and selling jewelry. He opened his business, Grant Dial Silversmith, in Red Springs. His work is an adaptation of Navajo-style pieces that use turquoise, onyx, and coral. Prices for his jewelry range from $50 to $10,000.
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Speedway Plumbing, Inc., headquartered in Concord, is a runner-up in the 2003 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. The company, founded in 1996 by Bryan Huneycutt, employs 55 and projects revenues of $5.9 million in 2003. Speedway Plumbing, Inc. installs, maintains, and repairs plumbing.
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Cary-based Ultimus, is a runner-up in BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's High-Tech Company of the Year competition. Founded in 1994 by CEO Rashid Khan, the business has been profitable for six years. Ultimus makes software that automates processes that businesses employ, such as purchase orders and business accounts.
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Mark Packer is a radio talk show host at WFNZ-AM in Charlotte's South End. He delivers sports news and generated an impressive following of his 'Primetime with Packman,' which has spread to ten stations across the Carolinas.
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Sweden's Volvo Group purchased Clark Equipment in Asheville in 1987 and renamed it Volvo Construction Equipment. The newly-expanded 400,000-square-foot factory is Volvo's North American headquarters for its construction-equipment subsidiary.
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Professional stock pickers review North Carolina stocks they thought would rise steadily over twelve months. Many suffered losses instead. Kenan Transport, Lowes Companies, and Family Dollar Stores saw the largest gain in value among North Carolina based companies in 2001.
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NationsBank (now Bank of America) and First Union (now Wachovia) are two new, rapidly growing banks. The CEOs of each bank discuss their methods for managing successful businesses.
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NASCAR racing is big business. Racing teams require over $15 million a year to keep their cars in competition. Primary sponsors of teams, like Mooresville-based Lowe's, pay up to $10 million a season, and secondary sponsors pay up to $1 million. In return, the sponsors get their logos displayed on the racing cars and the drivers' outfits. Sponsors believe the money is a good advertising investment since the thirty-six NASCAR Nextel Cup races attract over thirteen million fans, besides the 200 million who view the four-hour races on television.
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Using 2003 revenues, the Grant Thornton Accounting Firm ranked the state's 100 private companies for BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA. General Parts, Inc., of Raleigh, a distributor of replacement parts for vehicles, retained its No. 1 ranking from 2003. Manufacturers hold twenty-seven positions on the 2004 list, and these companies contribute 31 percent of the revenue. Two textile companies and a furniture manufacturer hold three of the list's top seven positions.
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Once-troubled, Charlotte-based Bojangles' Restaurants Inc., is ranked No. 24 on the 2002 Business North Carolina ranking of the state's 100 largest private companies. Murray discusses the company's turn-around and its chairman and CEO Joe Drury.