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24231
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This article presents the ranking of the top private companies in North Carolina in 2003 and compares them to last year's winners to shed insight about economic change in the state.
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Steve Harrell is curator of exhibit design at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. He is in charge of maintaining whatever is being displayed at the seven-story, 200,000-square-foot Raleigh museum. Harrell discusses the requirements of his job, which include dusting whale bones the dangle from the ceiling and making certain the mechanical exhibits work.
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Kannapolis-based textile manufacturer Pillowtex Corp. closed its doors, causing more than 5,000 people to lose their jobs. This article highlights unemployment and the difficulties of finding a job without a high school diploma or many skills.
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Pete Murphy owns two companies in Duplin County that built restaurants in River Landing. Though it seems to be in the middle of nowhere, Murphy chose the location because of housing developments cropping up. The entrepreneur invested in the area knowing it would expand in the future and bring in money.
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There are two historically black, women's colleges in the United States -– Spelman, in Atlanta, and Bennett, in Greensboro. Johnnetta Cole has been president of both. She revived Spelman and has, since coming to Bennett in 2002, brought the school back from the brink of bankruptcy. Cole is profiled in this BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA article.
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Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 6, June 2004, p56-60, 62-65, il, por Periodical Website
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McDowell Lumber Co. is a sawmill just outside of Asheboro that produces about 100,000 board feet a day and has expanded in size since 2001.
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Broad Street Software Group, Inc., headquartered in Edenton, is a runner-up in the 2005 Business North Carolina Small Business of the Year competition. The company, founded in 1995 by Tully Ryan and Kim Winslow, makes artificial intelligence software. Broad Street Software projects revenues in 2005 of $2.5 million.\r\n
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Cheerwine was developed in Salisbury over eighty years ago. The soft drink, though marketed in other states, makes most of its revenues in North Carolina. Murray discusses the history of the company and its plan to market the local product across the country to a younger consumer group.
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Oakwood Homes Corp. has a new president, Myles Standish, who hopes to bring the nation's fourth largest manufactured home builder back to profitability.
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Tigertek, Inc., with headquarters in Stoneville, is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's 2008 North Carolina Small Business of the Year. The company began in 1983 as a repairer of all kinds of industrial equipment, and was later purchased by Peter Mitchell in 1998. The company still is an emergency responder day or night, but now it has an international reach, with repairs including advanced electronic and computer-driven equipment. It has a staff of forty-four and projects revenues in 2008 of $3.5 million.
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Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 28 Issue 12, Dec 2008, p48-50, 53, 54, il, por Periodical Website
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Jim Blaine joined the Raleigh-based State Employees Credit Union in 1973. Six years later he was its president and CEO. The credit union had 25 branches and $300 million in assets when he became president. Blaine has built it into the nation's second-largest credit union and the state's fifth-biggest financial institution. Murray discusses the man and his methods.
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The Research Triangle forged the state's reputation as a biotechnology power. Murray, managing editor of BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA, discusses with leaders of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center the efforts of the industry to extend the sector to other sections of the state. The center is a nonprofit that promotes biotechnology and lobbies on its behalf.
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McAllister Towing of Wilmington Inc. is a three-tug fleet that works to tow ships into port. Overall the company has nine locations in the United States, owning 65 tugboats in total.
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Murray moderates a discussion between leaders in eastern North Carolina. In this edited transcript, they discuss what the eastern part of the state needs to help it grow and develop economically.
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