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4059
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In the 20th-century, 20 individuals made their marks in a number of businesses and in so doing changed the direction of business in the state. They include J. Spencer Love (textiles), William H. Belk (retail), Jonathan W. Daniels (publishing), and A.J. Fletcher (broadcasting).
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4130
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Earl N. Phillips, Jr., chairman and CEO of GE Capital First Factors of High Point, is the new chairman of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI) for 1999-2000. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1962 and later from Harvard Business School.
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4327
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA selected twenty-one young people most likely to have an impact on the state in the next century. The list includes Amy Woods Brinkley (Banking), David Brown (Health Care), Roy Cooper (Law), Marybeth Cornwell (Manufacturing), and Peter Loftin (Telecommunications).
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4406
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In December 1989, Phil Kirk became president and secretary of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI) as well as publisher of NORTH CAROLINA magazine. Kirk discusses some of his successes over the past decade as well as his plans for the organization.
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4635
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Brothers are sometimes confidants; sometimes colleagues; sometimes competitors; and sometimes they are all three. While women tend to put relationships first, men see their identify in what they do. Davis looks at the relationship of seven sets of brothers, including Joe and Jim Martin; McKay, Johnny, and Tim Belk; and Aaron, Kenneth, and Asa Spaulding.
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4734
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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct four outstanding business and government leaders in the fall of 2000. They are James H. Millis, Sr., chairman of the Millis Foundation, High Point; R. Stuart Dickson, chairman of the executive committee of Ruddick Corp., Charlotte; John M. Belk, chairman of the board and CEO of Belk Inc., Charlotte; and Harlan E. Boyles, retiring Treasurer of North Carolina.
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4793
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On November 14, 2000, the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct four outstanding business and government leaders. They are James H. Millis, Sr., chairman of the Millis Foundation; Harlan E. Boyles, retiring Treasurer of North Carolina; John M. Belk, chairman and CEO of Belk, Inc.; and R. Stuart Dickson, chairman of the executive committee of Ruddick Corp.
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5134
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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct four outstanding business leaders in the fall of 2001. They are: Edward E. Crutchfield (Charlotte), former chairman of First Union Corp; C. Felix Harvey (Kinston), chairman of Harvey Enterprises and Affiliates; W. Duke Kimbrell (Gastonia), chairman and CEO of Parkdale Mills; and Dalton L. McMichael (Madison), former chairman of Mayo Yarns.
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6811
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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct five outstanding business and government leaders in the fall of 1990. The inductees are the late J. E. Broyhill, former chairman of Broyhill Furniture Industries, Inc.; the late Luther H. Hodges, former governor of North Carolina; Ralph W. Ketner, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Food Lion, Inc.; Thomas I. Storrs, retired CEO of NCNB Corp.; and the late Louis V. Sutton, former chairman and president of Carolina Power and Light Company.
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6877
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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct four outstanding business leaders in the fall of 2004. They are Paul Broyhill, former chairman and chief executive of Broyhill Furniture Industries; Wayland H. Cato, Jr., former president and chief executive of The Cato Corp.; Ron Doggett, former chairman and chief executive of GoodMark Foods, Inc.; and A.F. Sloan, retired chairman and president of snack food maker Lance, Inc. The Hall of Fame was established in 1988 to recognize business leaders who made significant contributions to building the state's economy and who provided outstanding community and statewide service.
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7429
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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame, established in 1988, recognizes business leaders who made significant contributions to building the state's economy and who provided outstanding community and statewide service. Inductees must be retired from day-to-day operation of their organization or be at least seventy years of age. The 2005 honorees are William A. V. Cecil, owner, Biltmore Estate, Asheville; Hugh L. McColl, Jr., former CEO Bank of America, Charlotte; W. David Stedman, former textile executive, entrepreneur, and former NCCBI chair; and Joan Zimmerman, CEO Southern Shows and NCCBI Board member, Charlotte.
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8029
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In August 2006, Lew Ebert became the sixth president and CEO of North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry (NCCBI). A graduate of Millersville University, Ebert worked over twenty years for the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry in positions that included vice president of marketing. Before coming to North Carolina, he led the Kansas Chamber for three-and-one half years, significantly building up the organization's membership, doubling its yearly revenue, and tripling its reserves. He is best known for crafting tightly-focused legislative agendas based on the needs of members and empirical data.
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Seeking an education, Nido Qubein emigrated to North Carolina from Jordan in 1966. He graduated from High Point University and received a master's degree in business from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1973, he started his first business: writing and publishing leadership materials for schools and camps in thirty countries. By 1977, he was giving 200 motivational talks a year. This grew into Creative Services, the international consulting firm he owns today. He is chairman of Business Life in Greensboro; Great Harvest Bread Co., a 218-store national chain; McNeill Lehman, a public relations firm; and Southern National Bank Corp. In 2004, he was named president of High Point University. Since then he has raised almost $70 million for the private university and changed the school's culture with unorthodox methods, such as hiring a “Director of WOW†and arranging valet service for students.
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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct three outstanding business leaders in the fall of 2007. They are Ed and Charles Shelton and James B. Hunt, Jr. The Sheltons, after successful business careers, opened Shelton Vineyards in Dobson, which is the largest family-owned estate winery in the state. Hunt, the state's only four-term governor, chairs institutes he founded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at North Carolina State University.
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After founding the Electronic Accounting Card Company in 1957, Edgar “Bucky†Snider sold his business to Control Data Corporation of Minneapolis in 1968, but remained, under terms of the $7 million dollar stock deal, as its President until January 1971. Snider then founded a new company, the High Point Electronic Card Company, whose success enabled him to buy his old company back from Control Data Corporation, which was now experiencing financial difficulties. Snider's new company, an amalgamation of his now expanded CDC division and his new High Point Electronic Card Company, was called NEC, or the National Electronic Card Company. NEC employs 120 persons at its High Point base, along with approximately 100 employees in it five branch plants.
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