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12008
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In 1978 one of the largest and the newest Miller Brewing Company facility began operations in Eden in Rockingham County. The $375 million facility sits on a 1,600-acre site and employs around 1,600 people. About ten million barrels of beer are produced there annually. A barrel is equal to thirty-one gallons.
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12009
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Curtis E. Long founded the Long, Haymes & Carr of Winston-Salem in 1949. It is now one of the leading advertising agencies in the Southeast and employs a staff of fifty-five.
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12010
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In the 1940s Ervin E. Lampert operated the R. W. Norman Company, a successful 50-year-old retail furniture business with stores in Salisbury and Lumberton. However, he recognized the store needed something else to go with the furniture and those items were draperies and bedspreads. This article describes how the store, now called Norman's of Salisbury, became a full-fledged home furnishings establishment known nationwide.
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12011
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Walter J. Klein, Ltd., a filmmaking company in Charlotte, makes productions for corporations, including ARCO, Chevron, Toyota, VISA, and others. Fees average $92 thousand per film, and the company maintains a free loan library. The company has won more major film festival awards than any other producer in the Southeast.
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12012
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Carolina Mills, founded in Maiden in 1928, owns nine textile mills employing 1,500 people within thirty miles of its home office. The plants produce a diversified range of yarns for the knitting and weaving industry. Annual sales of total operations now exceed $100 million.
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C. Grier Beam began in the trucking business in 1933. Today his company, Carolina Freight Carriers Corporation ranks twelfth in the nation among the country's common carriers and serves twenty-two states and the District of Columbia.
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12014
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WIX Corporation, which began operation in 1939, manufactures over 3,000 filter products for a variety of automotive and industrial purposes.
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12015
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The Hickory Chair Company, formerly the Surry Chair Company, relocated to Hickory in 1911. The company's creations include a broad selection of traditional chairs, upholstery, tables, case furniture, and accent pieces with special emphasis on 18th-century designs. One of Hickory Chair's most significant marketing decisions was the introduction of the 'James River Collection' in 1961.
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Gaston County Dyeing Machine Company, a family-owned business located in Stanley, began operations in 1921. The company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of textile wet processing equipment which is marketed in more than eighty countries. Gaston County operates three plants and employs over 500 people.
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12017
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Asheville's Biltmore Dairy Farms is one of the leading independent dairies in the nation. The company traces its history back the herd that George W. Vanderbilt, the builder of Biltmore Estate, imported from the Isle of Jersey.
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12018
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James M. Craven and Kent L. Hogan founded Carolina Galvanizing Company in Aberdeen in 1969. The company began as a job galvanizing shop with twelve employees. In 1972 the company began its own line of galvanized products and has grown to be the largest producer of galvanized bar stock in the country. The company now employs 198 full-time workers.
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12019
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Versatility of construction techniques and management expertise are major reasons why Wilmington's Miller Building Corporation is one of the state's leading construction companies. The company started operations in 1949.
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12020
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Marshall A. Rauch, chairman of the board and treasurer of Rauch Industries, heads what is believed to be the world's leading Christmas ornament manufacturer. He is now serving his eighth consecutive term in the State Senate representing the 25th Senatorial District. We the People of North Carolina magazine features him in the Businessman in the News section.
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12022
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John East, a political science professor at East Carolina University, is the newly-elected junior United States Senator from North Carolina.
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12027
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Golfing's economic impact on North Carolina is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. This article presents information on how cities benefit from a golfing tournament.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 3, Mar 2010,
p42-44, 46-47, il
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