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19735
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North Carolina's top one hundred banks are ranked by their 2012 revenues. Bank of America (Charlotte), BB&T (Winston-Salem), and First Citizens BancShares (Raleigh) ranked first, second, and third respectively. VantageSouth Bank of Raleigh and its CEO Scott Carter are featured in the article.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 33 Issue 6, June 2013,
p40-45, il
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40625
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Along with hospitals, Atrium Health clinics and digitally based health care programs are providing comparable medical services. Telemedicine and urgent care clinics in thirty-one locations are a boon especially to uninsured individuals or those with high deductibles.
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21839
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North Carolina ranks fifth in peanut production, producing 435 million pounds in 2012 with a value of $150 million. Luther Powell and his brother-in-law, Jonathan Stokes, started a farm-supply business in in Windsor in Bertie County in 1919. Peanuts was one of the crops they purchased. Although they shared peanuts at the store and in meetings, it was not until 1992 that they began marketing their well-known product, Bertie County Peanuts.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 4, Apr 2014,
p44-49, il, por
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28597
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Oak Island has a reputation as a low-key oceanfront hideaway. Tourism is its main industry and the Cape Fear Regional Jetport on mainland Brunswick County is the busiest general-aviation airport in the state. The county is one of the fastest growing in the state. The residents of the island want smart growth to maintain the lifestyle and culture that Oak Island and Brunswick County have worked to create.
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24198
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The author discusses the difficulty with balancing development and preservation in North Carolina's mountain counties, such as Jackson County, Swain County, and Henderson County.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 27 Issue 6, June 2007,
p54-63, il
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4797
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S & D Coffee Co. of Concord, which has been owned by the Davis family since 1927, is the country's third largest supplier to the food-service industry. The company filled this niche when brands like Maxwell House abandoned food-service for supermarket sales. Recently the company named its first non- family member CEO, Ron Hinson, who started with the company on a truck route twenty-one years ago.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 10, Oct 2000,
p56-57, 59-60, 62-65, il, por
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43294
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German automaker giant Daimler Trucks North America assembles trucks in Cleveland in Rowan County with parts made in Daimler plants in Gastonia and Mount Holly.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 41 Issue 11, November 2021,
p16-17
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24385
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Textile/Clothing Technology Corp. is a company that hopes to save U.S. apparel makers from faltering productivity and sales. Using innovation and equipment modernization, the company hopes to bolster the nation’s manufacturers, which have been suffering as a result of outsourcing and rising imports.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 4, April 1988,
p40-43, il
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43102
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"Luther Hodges is best known as the father of Research Triangle Park. He also was a segregationist, albeit a complicated one.' Karl Campbell, an Appalachian State faculty member has spent the past decade researching the paradox of Hodges.
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14053
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This month's BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA community profile features the three cities in the Piedmont Triad - Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Mar 1984,
p20-21, 23-24, 28-29, 31, 33-34, 36, 38
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3710
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In 1997, when David Ghantt and accomplices robbed Loomis, Fargo, & Co. in Charlotte of $17 million, they pulled off the largest theft in the state's history and the nation's second largest. All were captured and most of the money recovered.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 7, July 1998,
p32-40, il
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15737
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Only four women are CEOs of the North Carolina 100, the state's largest private companies. They are Ann H. Gaither, of J. H. Heafner Co. Inc., a Lincolnton distributor of rubber tire products; Annabelle L. Fetterman, of Lundy Packing Company, a Clinton pork processor; Dale F. Halton, of Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Charlotte; and Lola Richardson, of Star-based Clayson Knitting Co. Inc. Nelson discusses with the four women how they got to be CEO's without being SOBs (Sons of the Boss).
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 8 Issue 6, June 1988,
p68-74, 76-77, por
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7179
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In the business community most of the CEO positions are filled by men. Of the fourteen Fortune 500 companies in North Carolina, only one has a woman CEO. Only three of the top seventy companies based in the state have female CEOs, and the state's top one hundred private companies list but two. Martin discusses reasons for this and lists women in the state who have the potential to make the top rung on the ladder.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 4, Apr 2005,
p32-40, 42-43, por
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221
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With a fragile economy built on low-wage, low-skill jobs, rural North Carolina must remake its work force as its industries remake themselves.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 12 Issue 4, Apr 1992,
p48-61, il
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24133
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RTI International is housed in a research park between Raleigh and Durham and works to study DNA, environmental issues, and obesity. The author discusses the current president and CEO of Research Triangle Institute, Wayne Holden, and presents what the CEO has to offer the Institute.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 11, November 2012,
p46-55, il, por
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