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1.Exceptional North Carolina Women Leaders by Wood, Suzanne M. NC Magazine Vol. 65 Issue 4, Apr 2007
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There are many successful businesswomen in North Carolina. Wood chose six to highlight as exceptional women in business. They are Sue Cole, principal of Granville Capital, a Greensboro-based investment company and chair of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center board of directors; Mary Clara Capel, administrative director of Troy-based Capel, Inc., the nation's largest importer and manufacturer of area rugs; Susanna Gibbons, a partner in Poyner & Spruill, a 106-attorney firm in Raleigh; Dr. Maureen Hartford, president of Meredith College in Raleigh; Ellen Ruff, president of Duke Energy Carolinas; and Drew Putt, president of RBC Centura.
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The growth of the biotechnology industry in North Carolina has taken the state to third place nationally in the number of biotech jobs. The state has almost 400 biotech companies employing over 48,000 people with an economic impact of $3 billion a year. Wood examines this growing industry that is supported by a strong infrastructure.
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North Carolina has an ambitious biofuel production goal. Legislation introduced into the General Assembly this spring calls for 10 percent of the liquid fuels sold in the state to come from biofuels grown and produced locally. Wood discusses what scientists and businesspeople around the state are doing to lessen North Carolina's dependence on foreign oil.
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Edward T. Carney, vice president and general manager of Cisco's Global Government Solutions Group in the Research Triangle, is featured in NC Magazine's executive profile.
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For one week every April and October the world's furniture manufacturers and retail buyers come to the High Point Furniture Market, the world's largest furniture expo. Business transactions are in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and the local economy benefits by $1 billion. Wood describes the strength of the state's furniture industry as it moves into the twenty-first century.
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Wood discusses three mayors who lead large metropolitan cities--Pat McCrory (Charlotte); Keith Holliday (Greensboro); and Charles Meeker (Raleigh).
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East Carolina University graduate Shirley Carraway, 1975, 1985, 2000, planned a career in business, but switched her major to education. During her thirty-two years in the field she has been a speech therapist, assistant principal, principal, and school system administrator. She will retire as superintendent of the Orange County Schools on October 1, 2007.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 6 Issue 1, Fall 2007,
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Brody is a well-known name in Greenville. For years the family operated Brody's, a successful chain of six department stores. The Brody Medical School at East Carolina University was named for them, for their lifelong support of the school. David Brody worked in the retail chain until its sale to Proffitts in 1998. He is now a successful real estate developer. His company, Brody Associates, is a partner in the La Promenade shopping center in Greenville and the Mayfaire mixed-used development in Wilmington.
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James Maynard, a 1965 graduate of East Carolina University, started with a single steakhouse in Fayetteville and built it into a $1 billion business. Maynard is the co-founder and chairman of the company that runs the Golden Corral restaurant chain. Golden Corral, with around 500 restaurants, ranks number one in the family-style buffet restaurant industry with a 40 percent share of the market.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 4 Issue 2, Winter 2006,
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Lynn Mull Lail, of Hickory, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. As a teenager, she worked in the family motel, learning information about business and tourism. She inherited the Mull Motel and the Hickory Furniture Mart from her parents, Pearlie and Maude Mull. At the time, the furniture mart was a wholesale business and was open only two days a year, during nearby High Point's Furniture Market. In 1985, she and her husband opened the Hickory Furniture Mart to the public year-round. The mart is now the area's biggest tourist attraction and one of the state's top visitor destinations, attracting over 500,000 people every year. The million-square-foot complex displays over 1,000 furniture lines and includes 100 factory outlets, stores and galleries, shipping service, visitor center, museum, cafe, coffeehouse, and motel.
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Virgil Smith is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. He has thirty-five years in the newspaper business, beginning with a paper route and a job as a mailroom employee. Today he is both president and publisher of the 136-year-old ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, the largest daily newspaper in Western North Carolina.
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Rusine Mitchell-Sinclair is the senior state executive for IBM's operations in the Research Triangle Park--the largest IBM site in the world--and the company's other locations across the state. She also serves as vice-president of strategy and implementation of the company's Global IT Delivery division, which helps IBM's clients run their technology systems and data centers in this country and around the world. Mitchell-Sinclair is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile.
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James H. Ammons, Chancellor of North Carolina Central University in Durham, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. He has been the University's leader for the past five years.
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Felton Capel, the founder of Century Associates of North Carolina, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. He is an award-winning executive, an honored civic leader, and a former town councilman in Southern Pines. He received the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's University Award and has been inducted into the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame.
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Scott Custer, CEO of RBC Centura, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine executive profile. In his twenty-seven-year banking career, he has worked for only two companies--Wachovia and RBC Centura. RBC is based in Toronto, Canada, and acquired Rocky Mount-based Centura in 2001. Custer discusses his work and RBC Centura's plan to move the company's headquarters to Raleigh. The bank is the largest U.S. subsidiary of the largest Canadian bank.
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