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4702
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Morganton native Linda Rader is nationally-known golf instructor. In 1990, she won the Ladies Professional Golf Association's \"Teaching Pro of the Year\" Award. When Charlotte's new Golf Club at Ballentyne opened in 1997, Rader became director of golf operations. The Linda Rader School of Golf is located nearby. The school can handle up to 12,000 students a year, with a yearly gross of around $1 million.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 7, July 2000,
p46-49, il
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Meg Scott Phipps is the daughter and granddaughter of North Carolina governors - Bob Scott and Kerr Scott. A Democrat, Phipps is seeking the position of North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture in the November 2000 election. Her platform includes an 18-month moratorium on farm foreclosures, establishing a team to assist farmers facing financial crisis, reorganization of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, and increasing the number of produced inspectors.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 8, Aug 2000,
p26, 28-29, il
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4714
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North Carolina's top seventy-five public companies are ranked by their May 2000 market value. Fifty-two of the seventy-five had their stock value go down. Fourteen newcomers made the list, the most since the ranking began in 1991. Bank of America ranked first, followed by First Union and Duke Energy.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 8, Aug 2000,
p31-38, il
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4715
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Lisa Griffin had dreams of being a lawyer but did not have the money for college. Today she is a Tupperware sales representative and earns six figures a year working in Charlotte and its surrounding area. She is also Tupperware's second-best seller nationwide.
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Molly Broad, president of the 16-campus University of North Carolina system, was hired in 1997. Although she is not a native and does not have the \"old school\" connections that her predecessors had, she is highly rated as the system's CEO. Now she is facing her biggest challenge - convincing citizens to vote for the $3.1 billion bond referendum in the November 2000 election. Without its passage, both the university and the community college systems will be denied needed funds for repairs and new construction on their campuses.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 8, Aug 2000,
p40-45, 47-49, por
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4792
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The state's top one hundred private companies are ranked. Very few high-tech industries made the list, with most being old-line industries like furniture and textile manufacturers, auto parts distributors, and food chains. The top six on the 2000 list are the same as on the 1999 list, although in a different order. Raleigh's General Parts, Inc., a distributor of replacement parts for vehicles, has headed the list since 1998.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 10, Oct 2000,
p42-43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53-55, il
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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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4798
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One of the more interesting web sites is \"How Stuff Works,\" the creation of Marshall Brain. The Cary company is less than a year old, but it is ranked in the top 500 web sites. Each month the site receives around 1.5 million visits. Brain and eight other writers prepare articles on how \"stuff\" like chocolate bars, TVs, and toilets work. The site also has an on-line store featuring items with the company logo.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 10, Oct 2000,
p66-73, il
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4823
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North Carolina's banks are ranked by their 1999 revenues. Bank of America, First Union, Wachovia, and BB&T hold the top four positions respectively. The best and worst banks in nine categories, including best and worst return on assets and best and worst return on equity, are given.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 11, Nov 2000,
p48-49, 51, 53-54, il
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4824
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Between $60 and $120 million in electricity is stolen every year from North Carolina utilities. Martin discusses steps companies take to prevent theft and how thieves are tracked and caught.
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Accu-Form Polymers, Inc., based in Warsaw, is Business North Carolina's Small Business of the Year for 2000. Since owner Pat Renfro moved the company from Wake County to Duplin County, the business has grown from $300,000 to $5 million. Products of the plastic molding company include consoles for Highway Patrol cruisers and tops for boats. The company was founded in 1990 and has a current staff of forty-three.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 12, Dec 2000,
p38-45, il
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12.A Bigger Bite of Hospital Food by Barnes, Marc Business North Carolina Vol. 20 Issue 12, Dec 2000
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4857
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A la Cart, Inc., headquartered in Charlotte, is a runner-up in the 2000 Business North Carolina Small Business of the Year competition. Founded by Wade Moyer in 1989, the company makes food storage carts for hospitals. A la Cart employs twenty-eight and projects revenues of $8.2 million in 2000.
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4858
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At five cents, North Carolina's excise tax on cigarettes is the third-lowest in the country. Only Virginia at 2.5 cents and Kentucky at 3 cents are lower. The low tax makes North Carolina fertile ground for cigarette smugglers, who sell stolen cigarettes in states having higher excise taxes, like New York at$1.11 a pack and New Jersey at $.80 a pack.
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Jasper Engines & Transmission, Inc., Greensboro, is a runner-up in the 2000 Business North Carolina Small Business of the Year competition. Owned by brothers Mark and Dave Harrah, the company sells remanufactured engines and transmissions to customers including Federal Express Corp. and the U.S. Postal Service. Jasper Engines employs seventeen and projects revenues of $10 million in 2000.
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Jon Marc Department Store in West Jefferson in Ashe County is a runner-up in the 2000 Business North Carolina Small Business of the Year competition. The store, owned and managed by Libby Cockerham, was founded in 1964 and has survived in a period when many family-owned businesses have fallen victim to larger chain stores. The retail clothing and shoe business employs eleven and projects revenues of $1 million in 2000.
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