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On June 26, the 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games open in the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area. The product of three years of planning, the games bring together 7,000 athletes for nine days of competition. Over 400,000 spectators are expected to view the events. Cost of the games is $35.5 million, and the Summer Games is the largest sporting event in the world in 1999.
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Often cities and counties that build their economies on one major industry face difficulties when that industry declines. Tobacco was Durham's mainstay for decades, but its decline did not heavily affect the city's economic base and quality of life. Rather, Durham moved on to a diversified industrial base, a technology and research and development sector, and a first-rate medical and university system.
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Greater Durham's nickname, \"A City of Medicine,\" is well-earned. For example, almost 28 percent of Durham County's population works in healthcare; over 50 percent of the state's biotech firms are in the county; three Nobel Laureates did their prize-wining research in Durham; and the Duke University Medical Center is ranked the nation's sixth-best medical center.
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Darleen Johns founded Alphanumeric Systems, Inc., in Raleigh in 1979, as a reseller of word processing machines. In 2001, through hard work, Johns has transformed the company into a leading information-technology solutions provider. The company employs 240 and had revenues of $60 million in 1999.
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The greenhouse and nursery industry is expanding rapidly. Horticultural products, including annuals and shrubs, generated $400 million in 1996 and ranked fourth behind hogs, broilers, and tobacco in agribusiness. Nationally, the state ranks third.
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Employing twenty-one percent of the workforce and pumping $45 billion into the economy, agriculture is the state's number one business. Nationally the state ranks third in net farm income with hogs, broilers, tobacco, and horticulture the top farm commodities.
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Thomas R. Beard, CEO of Beard Hardwoods, is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's \"executive profile.\" The Greensboro lumber company remains profitable and continues to grow in a time when industries like textiles and furniture are declining. Most of this success is due to the fact that nearly thirty years ago Beard Hardwoods was one of the first state companies to get into the exporting business.
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Sheila Ogle started in the media business in 1962 at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, where she was an assistant to the women's affairs director. She has created three successful businesses. In 1986, she started Media Research Planning and Placement (MRRP); in 2003, she co-founded Integrated Clinical Trial Services; and in 2000, she purchased and renovated Matthews House in Cary. She also boosts causes that range from women in business to a veteran's park in Cary. Ogle is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's executive profile.
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Johnston County was the state's fastest growing county in 2004 and the fiftieth fastest in the nation. The year was also an outstanding one for business with more than $170 million in new business locations or expansions and creation of over 1,200 new jobs. Formerly an agricultural and low-end manufacturing community, the county focus is now on pharmaceuticals, distribution, and tourism. The county benefits from convenience and accessibility to three major highways, U.S. 70, I-40, and I-95; close proximity to the Raleigh-Durham International Airport; and Wake County and its thriving economy.
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A trip to upstate New York by Johnston Memorial Hospital president Leland Farnell developed into an idea of how to solve the hospital's need for more space because of the growing county's needs. There he had seen physicians and medical services housed together in a mall like so many Gaps, Old Navys, and Disney Stores. Smithfield's 1907 Burlington Industries yarn mill was standing empty. The renovated mill is now the two-year-old Johnston County Medical Mall that has a health and fitness center, a café, conference facilities, an auditorium, a cutting-edge wound treatment center, a medical supply company, and space for physician practices. Further expansion of undeveloped areas is planned.
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Mary Clara Capel, administrative director of Capel, Inc., Troy, North Carolina, is devoted to the rug company started by her grandfather in 1917. Capel has worked from the mailroom to the showroom and knows the family business inside out. She joined the company in 1981 and worked in sales in Atlanta and San Francisco before returning to Troy in 1997. Capel, Inc., is the country's largest privately owned rug manufacturer and importer.
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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,
p8-11, il
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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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