After seeing an early business venture fail, P. H. Rose met success with his store in Henderson, which opened in 1915. From there it grew into a chain of stores, called Rose's, now numbering 68 in North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee.
W. B. Taylor began his chewing tobacco business in a little one-room establishment in Winston-Salem in 1883. The product proved so popular that a plant was soon built. Today, Taylor Brothers is the largest manufacturer of chewing tobacco in the country. The company uses over two million pounds of tobacco a year to produce a chewable product with names such as Black Maria, Cannon Ball, and Bull of the Woods.
Ruth Faison Shaw, a visionary artist and internationally known educator, rediscovered the ancient art of finger painting and formulated an educational system which brought about its practical use in 1931. Through the medium of Shaw Finger Paint, her fame spread here and abroad. She was born in Kenansville in Duplin County in 1888.
Bernhardt Industries, Inc. is a family-owned, furniture-making enterprise located in Lenoir. It is one of the largest independent companies in North Carolina and the nation, with six plants, a modern office building, and a showroom in Lenoir alone. Other facilities are located at Statesville, Shelby, and Troutman. John C. Bernhardt, who heads the company, is featured in We the People of North Carolina magazine's Businessman in the News.
Charles H. Crutchfield is president of the Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting Company, a company he has headed since 1945. It is not the largest radio-TV operation in the nation, but few of the industry's major executives are better known in business and government, even the White House, than he is. Crutchfield is featured in We the People of North Carolina magazine's Businessman in the News.
This article explains the Police Information Network (PIN) and how it works in North Carolina. The system provides a way for law enforcement and criminal justice officials to send and receive information about criminals and their activities. Headquartered in Raleigh, PIN can respond to requests from more than 232 terminals around the state in five seconds or less.
The North Carolina State Fair has been held almost annually since 1853, when the North Carolina Agricultural Society founded it. This article recounts some of the fair's historic moments and describes the twelve months of planning that goes into making the nine-day event a success.
Robert Chatham is the fourth generation of his family to work in the Chatham Manufacturing Company, which his great-grandfather founded in 1877. He is featured in We the People of North Carolina magazine's Businessman in the News. The company employs over 3,000 people at plants in Elkin, Charlotte, and Eden. Fabric for furniture upholstery is Chatham's top product, with blankets and auto upholstery ranking second and third.
Governor Holshouser appointed Nye to fill the position of Commissioner of Labor after the death of longtime Labor Department employee, W. C. (Billy) Creel. Nye is discussed in this ongoing series of brief profiles of major newly elected and appointed state officials.
L. L. Wren founded the Siler City Milling Company in 1910. The company originally milled flour and corn meal, but in the 1920s, began to manufacture their own pet foods and animal feeds. Siler Mills is one of the nation's largest companies that produces and markets its own dry dog food under the brand names of \"Chatham\" and \"Champ.\" It also controls its products from the farm to the marketplace.
Edwin H. Brown, Richard P. Bruce, and F. B. Lineweaver founded Knit-Away, Inc. in 1970 with the idea \"of supplying innovative merchandising and the newest and best knit fabrics to the volume areas of the fashion industry where good styling at reasonable prices was almost non-existent.\" Today the company employs over 1,200 people at the main plant in Raeford.
Paul N. Howard, Jr. founded the Paul N. Howard Company in Greensboro in 1950. The company is recognized as one of the country's major contractors and has recently expanded into the international market with multi-million dollar projects in Haiti and the Middle East. Contract awards for the first six months of 1975 were $40 million.
The Hurley family has operated the SALISBURY POST for three generations dating back to 1920. The newspaper gets high marks for the excellence of its product and printing among the state's daily papers. Since 1960, POST reporters have won over seventy-five awards for excellence. The papers circulation is larger than the city it serves.