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5308
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Best Doctors, Inc. compiles evaluations of over 30,000 physicians and rates them and their peers. BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA lists doctors in the state who made the list in twenty-one specialties, including cardiovascular, infectious disease, nephrology, and ophthalmology.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 7, July 2002,
p44,46, 48-50, 52-54, 56-59, por
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5334
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Durham-based Cree Inc. is a runner-up in BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA's High-Tech Company of the Year competition. Cree, founded in 1987, makes high-tech products, such as its light-emitting diodes. The company employs 940 and had revenues of $177 million in fiscal 2001.
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Charlotte-based Digital Optics Corp. is a runner-up in BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA's High-Tech Company of the Year competition. Digital Optics, founded in 1991, makes high-tech products, such as its photonic chip. The company employs 115.
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5336
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Durham-based Red Hat Inc. is a runner-up in BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA's High-Tech Company of the Year competition. Red Hat Inc., founded in 1993, is a maker of computer software and employs 600.
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5370
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The state's largest general contractors are ranked by 2001 revenues, and twenty top construction projects are ranked by 2001 pure construction costs. J.A. Jones in Charlotte headed the contractor's list. The Streets of Southport in Durham was the top construction project. Retail and medical projects dominated the list, with each having six in the top twenty.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 5, May 2002,
p28-31, 34-36, il
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5371
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Quality, quantity, and distribution of the product are the foundations of successful businesses, including the state's oldest business - moonshining. Current estimates place the number of operating stills in North Carolina between 20 and 30. Martin discusses the development of moonshining in the state and its status today.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 5, May 2002,
p38-44, 47-48, il
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5372
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East Carolina University professor Joe Kalinowski dealt with stuttering all his life; now he easily conducts interviews. The reason is a device he invented - the SpeechEasy. Worn in the ear like a hearing aid, the device \"records someone's speech and instantaneously plays it back.\" Each SpeechEasy sells for $4,000.
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5392
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Charlotte became a big-time sports town with the arrival of the National Basketball Association team the Charlotte Hornets. However, after fourteen years the team moved to New Orleans in 2002. Speizer describes the rise and fall of professional basketball in Charlotte.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 9, Sept 2002,
p24-28, 30-33, il
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Many stocks fell in 2002, and investors lost money. However, many company CEOs did very well, despite company losses. BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA ranks the top 75 CEOs in North Carolina, using their total compensation for the past two fiscal years.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 9, Sept 2002,
p34-41, il
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5430
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Jim Blaine joined the Raleigh-based State Employees Credit Union in 1973. Six years later he was its president and CEO. The credit union had 25 branches and $300 million in assets when he became president. Blaine has built it into the nation's second-largest credit union and the state's fifth-biggest financial institution. Murray discusses the man and his methods.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 11, Nov 2002,
p36-40, 42-43, il
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5431
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Immaculate Baking Co., based in Flat Rock, is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA's Small Business of the Year. The company, founded in 1995 by its president Scott Blackwell, makes gourmet cookies. Projected 2002 revenues are $1 million.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 12, Dec 2002,
p20-27, il
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5433
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North Carolina's banks are ranked by their 2001 revenues. Bank of America and Wachovia repeated their first and second place rankings from 2001. For the first time the ranking of the state's largest financial institutions included credit unions. Most of the 70 credit unions are ranked near the bottom, but two Raleigh-based ones, the State Employees Credit Union and the Coastal Federal Credit Union, are ranked 5th and 9th respectively.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 11, Nov 2002,
p28-34, il
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5434
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Benco Steel, Inc., based in Hickory, is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA's Small Business of the Year. The company, a processor and distributor of pipes, sheets, and other steel products, was founded by Joel White in 1960. His widow, Judy Tate, took over the company when he died in 1999. The company employs 38 and projects revenues of $10 million in 2001.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 21 Issue 12, Dec 2001,
p18-25, il
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5435
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Leanne Campbell, and her partners Merwin Gross and Tom Barktedt, are going into the movie business. They plan to open Blue Ridge Motion Pictures in Asheville in the spring of 2002. The studio will boast the nation's biggest soundstage. The company plans to spend $16 million over the next eight years developing the studio's forty acres.
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The Joinery Co., with headquarters in Tarboro, is a runner-up in the 2001 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. The company was founded in 1970 by its chairman, Dewey Hudson, and employs 36. Specializing in wood flooring, Joinery expects to reach $10 million in sales in 2002.
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