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3817
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Billie Redmond is president of Raleigh-based Trademark Properties, Inc., one of the largest women-owned real estate firms in the state. In 1998, she created Carolina Forestry to advise buyers on selling timber on their land. This is the first timber-management business in the state paired with a real estate company.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 8, Aug 1998,
p72-73, il
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3818
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The state's top seventy-five public companies are ranked by their May, 1998, market value. Twenty percent of this list are health-care or high-tech companies. NationsBank ranks No. 1. The market value of 1997's No. 75 company was $76.3 million; that of 1998's No. 75, $113.7 million.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 8, Aug 1998,
p32-33,35-41, il
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3819
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A number of businessmen serve on many corporation boards. Twenty-eight people in the state serve on four or more boards; some are on as many as ten. Some individuals question how effective they can be in handling a director's duties under such circumstances.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 8, Aug 1998,
p42-50,52-53, il
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3867
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The state's top one hundred private companies are ranked. The list does not include companies dealing primarily in real estate, retail, and finance. Raleigh-based General Parts, Inc., the country's second -largest distributor of wholesale automobile parts, ranks first for the second straight year.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 10, Oct 1998,
p49, 51-53, 55, 57-59, il
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3868
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Squirrel Defense Initiative Designs, Inc., a company started by Richard and Edward Welsh of Greensboro, has a unique creation. It gives the squirrel a tiny electric shock when it tries to get at the bird seed. In January, 1998, Birdwatch Americas national trade show in Atlanta named it the year's best product.
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3924
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The state's 108 financial institutions are ranked by their 1997 revenues. NationsBank of Charlotte ranked first and First Western of Burnsville ranked number 108.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 11, Nov 1998,
p34-40, il
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3925
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Timothy Pigford of Bladen County has been in the forefront of a legal struggle against the Farmers Home Administration. His suit charges that the agency discriminated against black farmers by denying loans or making loan acquisitions more difficult than for whites. Now, after two decades, the government must choose between settling out of court or facing a $3 billion class action suit.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 11, Nov 1998,
p52-56,59-63, il
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3945
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The Edison Project is a private, for-profit company that contracts with school systems having low performing schools. To date, fifty-one schools in twelve states have signed on. The project guarantees to improve student performance. However, not all Edison schools have progressed as promised. Goldsboro's Carver Heights elementary is the first school in the state to sign up.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 12, Dec 1998,
p16,18-19, il
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3946
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Klaus Becker is chairman of Charlotte-based SouthStar Steel Corporation, the nation's largest importer of stainless steel. The company expects revenues to reach $100 million in 1998 through sales of 25,000 tons.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 12, Dec 1998,
p22-25,27-29, il, por
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3947
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Coastal Automation Technologies Corporation is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA's 1998 North Carolina Small Business of the Year. The Kernersville-based company makes instruments that control factory processes, like milk temperature in a dairy. The company employs twenty- six and expects to earn over $2 million in 1998.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 18 Issue 12, Dec 1998,
p30-33,35,37-39, il
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4000
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Gordon Smith III of Raleigh has raised $36.5 million for his nonprofit Exploris, Inc., which operates a charter school and a children's museum in downtown Raleigh. The school opened in 1997 and the Exploris Museum soon after. Both will specialize in international education. Smith is the great-grandson of education governor Charles Brantley Aycock.
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4001
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Partnership for the Sounds, founded in 1993 and based in Columbia, seeks to interest tourists traveling to the beaches in eco-tourism in Tyrrell, Hyde, Beaufort, and Bertie Counties.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 19 Issue 1, Jan 1999,
p16,18-19, il
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4002
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There are now 132 certified nurse-midwives in the state. Even though an individual must first be a registered nurse and pass a strict midwifery course of study, many people still think of the profession in terms of the 19th-century, untrained midwife. The only North Carolina school offering an accredited program is East Carolina University.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 19 Issue 1, Jan 1999,
p20-21, il
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4003
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The Lamm family, father Mack and sons Charlie and Mike, run the Wilson-based Southern Motorsports, Inc. They currently own and operate the Southern National Speedway outside Kenly and the Orange County Speedway near Rougemont. Their goal is to build the largest chain of small racetracks in the state.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 19 Issue 1, Jan 1999,
p42-47, il
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4027
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The state's one hundred largest employers for 1998 range from Food Lion, Inc. with over 34,000 workers, to three that tied with 2,300. The companies are either privately, publicly, or foreign owned. They offer such products and services as yarn, banking, pork processing, and telecommunications.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 19 Issue 2, Feb 1999,
p46-47,49-55, il
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