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3120
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In 1994, Hardee's fell to fourth place in the fastfood business and has remained in that position. The company seeks to improve its position through job cuts, plant closings, modernization, new marketing approaches, and new products.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 16 Issue 8, Aug 1996,
p40-43,45,47,49-50, il
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3121
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In the late 1960s, Jim Farr led a group of psychologists and researchers in developing one of the country's most innovative and creative management-training programs at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 16 Issue 8, Aug 1996,
p52-57,59-62, il, por
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3122
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The state's health-care industry is profiled with statistical data pertaining to hospitals, health maintenance organizations, physicians, and nursing homes.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 16 Issue 8, Aug 1996,
p50-51, il
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3123
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Medic Computer Systems, Inc. sells computer systems to private- practice doctors, allowing them to run their practices more efficiently. Since going public in 1992, stock has soared 1,025 percent.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 16 Issue 8, Aug 1996,
p52-55,57,59, il
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3129
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A new trend in radio broadcasting is for one company to own an unlimited number of stations nationwide. Consolidation of this type has occurred in Charlotte, the Triad, and the Triangle. Some fear this will decrease competition and local interest.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 1, Jan 1997,
p16,18-19, il
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3161
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The state's one hundred largest employers in 1996 are ranked, with Food Lion continuing its 1995 number one ranking. Products and services included textiles, poultry, nursing homes, financial services, and apparel.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 2, Feb 1997,
p60-61,63-64, il
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3162
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The economic vitality of the state's one hundred counties is profiled with data that includes 1996 civilian labor force, per capita income, building permits, and population on food stamps.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 2, Feb 1997,
p122-128, il
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3163
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William Mazze, dean of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Belk College of Business Administration, is a man with a mission - to build a first-class business school solidly backed by the local business community.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 1, Jan 1997,
p42-45,47-48,50, por
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3240
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Andy Cohen is president of Beacon Sweets, the state's largest candymaker. Lacking space to expand, Cohen relocated the company from Newark to Morrisville. To be competitive, he reduced the staff from 180 to 130 and cut products fifteen percent in 1986.
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3241
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Richard Van Wingerden is president of Van Wingerden Greenhouse Company, the largest greenhouse maker in the state and fifth in the nation. The company relocated from Illinois to Horse Shoe, near Asheville, in 1974.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 4, Apr 1997,
p66-67, por
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3242
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For people needing a loan and lacking credit, pawn shops are a last resort. Three hundred pawn shops do business in the state, with Mecklenburg County having fifty-two.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 4, Apr 1997,
p44-48, 50-51, il
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3251
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Meat snacks may not be everyone's favorite snack food, but good marketing and advertising have made GoodMark Foods' premier meat snack, Slim Jim, a household name and a product with three straight years of double-digit growth.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 5, May 1997,
p26-30,32, il
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3252
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In 1996, commercial and industrial construction were among the state's twenty largest projects. They included Charlotte's 201 North Tryon office tower ($116 million) and Duke University Medical Center expansion ($88 million).
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 5, May 1997,
p34-38,40-45, il
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3278
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Ocean overfishing has produced a demand for farmed seafood, and in the mountains sixty-five farmers are raising trout. Though farms are small and most make enough just to get by, the state ranks second nationally in trout production.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 5, May 1997,
p52-56,58-59, il
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3279
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When Governor James Hunt needs a problem cleaned up, he sends in Janice Faulkner. The former East Carolina University administrator has handled problems in the Secretary of State's office and, currently, the Division of Motor Vehicles.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 6, June 1997,
p16, 18-19, por
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