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5440
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Park Imports and Designs of Goldsboro is a runner-up in the 2001 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. Tom and Cissy Bell founded the company in 1984. Park Imports specializes in imported kitchen textiles and gifts and employs 55. Revenues of $17 million are projected for 2001.
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5441
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Metrics, Inc., a Greenville company which does drug formulation and testing, is a runner-up in the 2001 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. Founded in 1994 by president Phil Hodges, Metrics, Inc. employs 76 and projects revenues of $8 million in 2001.
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5446
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Once-troubled, Charlotte-based Bojangles' Restaurants Inc., is ranked No. 24 on the 2002 Business North Carolina ranking of the state's 100 largest private companies. Murray discusses the company's turn-around and its chairman and CEO Joe Drury.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 10, Oct 2002,
p54-59, il
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5447
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Tony Golding's career in sauces began in 1972 when he purchased Mrs. Campbell's Chow-Chow. Today the Winston-Salem-based Golding Farms Food produces 250 products, including steak sauces and relishes. The company recently doubled the size of its bottling plant, due to a 30 percent sales increase in 2001. The company expects a 70 percent rise in sales in 2002.
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5450
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Mitchell Brothers Moving, Inc., headquartered in Greensboro, is a runner-up in the 2002 BUSINES NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year Competition. Founded in 1986 by Danny and Darrell Mitchell, the moving and freight hauling company employs 49 and projects revenues of $5 million in 2002.
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5451
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S & L Painting and Decorating, Inc., headquartered in Winston-Salem, is a runner-up in the 2002 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. Founded in 1986 by Linda Hayes-Calvert, the industrial and commercial painting company employs 77 and projects revenues of $3 million in 2002.
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5452
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Conquest Solutions, Inc., headquartered in Greensboro, is a runner-up in the 2002 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. Founded in 1997 by David Hankins and Sam Todaro, the company assembles, installs, and maintains computer networks. Conquest Solutions, Inc. employs 18 and projects revenues of $2.5 million in 2002.
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5459
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Using 2001 revenues, the Grant Thornton Accounting Firm ranked the state's 100 private companies for BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA. Companies doing business mainly in finance, real estate, retail, or healthcare do not qualify for the list. Twenty-one companies made their first appearance or returned after at least one year's absence. General Parts, Inc., of Raleigh, a distributor of replacement parts for vehicles, retained its No. 1 ranking from 2001.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 10, Oct 2002,
p45, 47, 49, 51-53, il
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5479
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Cary-based SAS Institute Inc. is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's High-Tech Company of the Year. The company, founded in 1976 by Jim Goodnight, is the world's largest privately-held software maker. SAS makes software \"for collecting and analyzing massive amounts of statistical data.\"
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 3, Mar 2002,
p28-32, 34, 37, il
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5490
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Cheerwine was developed in Salisbury over eighty years ago. The soft drink, though marketed in other states, makes most of its revenues in North Carolina. Murray discusses the history of the company and its plan to market the local product across the country to a younger consumer group.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 3, Mar 2002,
p22-27, il
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5508
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Eastern North Carolina traditionally has been an agricultural area, with industrialization a later development. Former Governor James B. Hunt describes what must be done, including improving education, providing job skills training, and building infrastructure, to keep this area from falling behind the rest of the state.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 2, Feb 2003,
p8-10, 12-13, il
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5509
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Nine of the forty-one counties in Eastern North Carolina are among the twenty poorest counties in the country. It is a section of the state that has been left behind. Martin discusses what it will take to turn things around in the East.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 2, Feb 2003,
p14-25, il
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5510
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The state's one hundred counties are profiled using economic indicators, including population, civilian labor force, per-capita income, farm earnings, and retail sales.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 2, Feb 2003,
p82-87, il
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5511
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North Carolina's manufacturing sector, including textile, apparel, and furniture making, is losing jobs; however, jobs are increasing in the government and service sectors. The article includes a ranking of the state's largest for-profit employers. Wal-Mart heads the list with 39,900 employees.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 2, Feb 2003,
p26-27, il
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5512
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The state's one hundred counties are divided into seven economic regions for the purpose of promoting each region to prospective employers. Counties within each region are profiled over a twenty-year period in terms of population, per-capita income, employment, and retail sales.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 23 Issue 2, Feb 2003,
p72-80, il
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