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After starting two successful companies, Brenda Simpson of Concord hit upon another idea in 2003. One of her companies, Making Connections, had peaked in 1999, with revenues around $3.5 million, but went out of business in 2004. Her new business centered around motorcycles. There are around 500 bike shows and rallies staged each year in the United States. Simpson staged one in Concord the past two years. The show has been named one of the country's best bike shows by the annual Biker's Atlas.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 11, Nov 2005,
p27-28, il
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7446
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Scott Ray graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1990 with a degree in biomedical engineering. In 2002, Ray, along with his brother-in-law Ryan Dienst, started Charlotte-based Global Medical Imaging. The company began by selling reconditioned medical ultrasound machines to private practice doctors, clinics, and hospitals at 20 to 50 percent off the retail price. The company now has thirty employees and has recently signed a distribution contract with Toshiba. The company reported sales of $8 million in 2004.
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7449
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In 2004, approximately 7,800 tobacco farmers raised $588 million of tobacco on 151,000 acres. Martin provides a season-by-season look at North Carolina's most labor-intensive crop.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 11, Nov 2005,
p66-71, il
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7477
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In this excerpt from his book, Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America, Tom Carlson describes how Ernal Foster's ideas about blue-water sportfishing caught on and created an industry on the Outer Banks.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 11, Nov 2005,
p72-80, 82-83, il
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7500
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HFN, a trade publication, ranks Nancy Webster the third-most-powerful person in home fashion and design, behind French designer Philippe Stark and Martha Stewart. For the past two years, Webster headed Target's design team. In September 2005, she became CEO of Thomasville Furniture and the first woman to run a large furniture maker.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 12, Dec 2005,
p22-23, por
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7501
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Rick's Auto Marketing Center is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine 2005 North Carolina Small Business of the Year. Richard Yow founded the Carthage company, which sells formerly leased vehicles, in 1987. He started the company with four used cars and $800 in his pocket. The company has ten full-time employees, plus part-timers, and projects revenues in 2005 of $4 million.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 12, Dec 2005,
p28-30, 32, 34, 36-37, il
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7.Smart Thing To Do Was Move by Murray, Arthur O. Business North Carolina Vol. 25 Issue 12, Dec 2005
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Broad Street Software Group, Inc., headquartered in Edenton, is a runner-up in the 2005 Business North Carolina Small Business of the Year competition. The company, founded in 1995 by Tully Ryan and Kim Winslow, makes artificial intelligence software. Broad Street Software projects revenues in 2005 of $2.5 million.\r\n
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Choice Translating, Inc., headquartered in Charlotte, is a runner-up in the 2005 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. Michelle Menard started the company in 1995 with $200, her mother, and a simple definition of success--makes sales of $1 million. The company, which provides linguistics services, has seven full-time employees; can tackle any major language; has a network of around 1,000 contract workers, who can translate written materials and convert speech; and provides interpreters across the state, when there is a medical emergency, social services crisis, or criminal investigation. The company projects revenues in 2006 of $3.5 million.
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JHE Production Group Inc., headquartered in Concord, is a runner-up in the 2005 BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA Small Business of the Year competition. The company, founded in 1987 by Jay Howard, provides event planning and production. Currently, all revenue comes from racing-related events. In 2005, JHE put on shows at twenty-five of the thirty-eight races in NASCAR's top circuit, the Nextel Cup. It handles entertainment at the fourteen contests of the Indy Racing League and other racing-themed events. The company projects revenues in 2005 of $5.5 million.
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Mark Singleton is executive director of nonprofit American Whitewater, which is headquartered in Cullowhee. Singleton earned a degree in outdoor education and has worked as a raft guide, skiing instructor, and marketing manager at a Maine resort, and marketing vice president at Nantahala Outdoor Center in Bryson City. As executive director, he lobbies to protect public river access, to improve education for paddlers, and to release dammed up water for recreational use for a certain number of days each year.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 12, Dec 2005,
p23-24, il
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Observing a passenger give up a pocketknife before boarding a plane in Charlotte led Heather Lowry to form a company to deal with such occurrences. Lowry and her business partner Sherry Anderson pooled $10,000 in savings to form CheckPoint Mailers, Inc. A Greenville family later invested $100,000. CheckPoint Mailers will ship carry-on-contraband in bomb-resistant boxes at any of twenty-eight U.S. airports wherever the mailer wants. The company has eight full-time employees and twenty-eight contractors. Currently the business is generating about $80,000 a month in sales.
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The Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad Company runs through Moore, Hoke and Cumberland Counties on its forty-six mile trips between Aberdeen and Fayetteville. The line was founded in 1892 by Confederate veteran John Blue, and his descendants still own it. The A & R and North Carolina's twenty-two other short-line railroads are crucial links in getting raw materials to manufacturers and finished goods to consumers.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 25 Issue 12, Dec 2005,
p52-57, il
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7598
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Each year Business North Carolina magazine seeks to determine the best business lawyers in North Carolina. The magazine mailed ballots listing twelve lawyer categories to every lawyer licensed by the North Carolina State Bar and living in North Carolina. The top vote getters in each field are Everett J. Bowman, antitrust; C. Richard Rayburn, Jr. bankruptcy; William M. Flynn, business law; John L. Shaw, construction; Stephen K. Coss, corporate counsel; David B. Freedman, criminal defense; Patricia L. Holland, employment; William D. Dannelly, environmental; William K. Davis, litigation; J. Scott Evans, patents/intellectual property; Brent A. Torstrick, real estate; and Elizabeth l. Quick, tax/estate planning.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 26 Issue 1, Jan 2006,
p47-48, 51, 53, 57, 61, 65, 67, 71, 75, 77, 81, 85,, por
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7636
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Mike Easley is in his second term as governor of North Carolina. A Democrat, he has been critical of both Democrats and Republicans on budgetary matters and is the first governor to use the veto. In this interview with BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA senior editor Frank Maley, Easley discusses the newly passed lottery bill and what he has done and wants to do for North Carolina's economic development.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 26 Issue 2, Feb 2006,
p8-12, 14-15 Magazine Supplement, por
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North Carolina's one hundred largest employers for 2005 range from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., ranked first, with over 47,845 workers, to The Gap, Inc., which, with 1,870 employees, was ranked at one hundred. The companies are either privately, publicly, or foreign owned. They offer such products and services as textiles, wood products, meat processing, and telecommunications. As manufacturing continues to decline and move out of North Carolina, more service sector jobs, which are not portable, were added to the list.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 26 Issue 2, Feb 2006,
p16-19 Magazine Supplement, il
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