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Roxanne Quimby and Burt Shavitz started Burt's Bees Maine, transforming a roadside honey stand into a multimillion dollar business. In 1994, the company moved to Creedmoor. The founders have since gone their separate ways, and the Clorox Company purchased the business three years ago for $925 million. The company expects to gross $250 million in 2010.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 6, June 2010,
p80-87, il
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12443
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Row discusses Cooke Communications' newspaper publications in Eastern North Carolina. There are thirteen - three dailies and ten non-dailies. The company employs around three hundred.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 7, July 2010,
p40-45, il, por, map
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12464
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The state's top seventy-five public companies are ranked by their June, 2010, market value. Bank of America, Lowe's, and Duke Energy retained their top three rankings respectively from 2009.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 8, Aug 2010,
p33-41, il
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12465
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Home-grown fried-seafood restaurants, like Catfish Cove and Riverview Inn, are thriving across the state with their mega-portion-plus-value meals. A number of them are now in the second- and third-generation of ownership. Bailey discusses the success of these restaurants through several generations.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 8, Aug 2010,
p42-49, 51, il
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12466
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Libby Hill Seafood Restaurants, Inc. started in 1953 when Luke and Elizabeth Conrad opened the first restaurant on the outskirts of Greensboro. Today, the company has four in Greensboro and one each in five other North Carolina cities; the company remains headquartered in Greensboro. Owner-operators run the nine restaurants.
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12467
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Located in Charlotte, the Hyatt Coin and Gun Shop is the country's largest independent gun store.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 8, Aug 2010,
p52-57, il
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13081
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Although it will have a particular impact on business and industry, the ability of North Carolina's electric utilities to supply adequate power to everyone in the state could be in jeopardy. One reason is that construction of new generating capacity has come to a near standstill. Shaw examines what this could mean in the decade ahead.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1981,
p14-19, 21-22, il
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13083
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Craig examines the growing business of producing educational seminars for businesses. Seminars can be moneymakers, but North Carolina companies that do them are usually privately held; therefore, information about profits and revenues isn't available. Still, the cost of a three-day seminar can cost $1,000, not including transportation.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1981,
p23-25, il
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13084
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Godwin examines North Carolina's $4 billion-a-year exporting business. The state is the country's leading exporter of both tobacco products and textile mill products.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1981,
p26-30, 32-33, il
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13085
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Westmoreland examines a new trend in North Carolina home construction: downsizing. She interviewed home builders to learn what to expect from their newest projects and why.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1981,
p44-48, il
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13086
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Northwestern Financial Corp. is the parent company to the state's fourth largest bank, Northwestern Bank. The late Edwin Duncan, Sr. founded the bank in 1937, and currently it has 180 branches and $1.4 billion in deposits. The bank is making a comeback from is troubled past.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1981,
p49-50, il
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13153
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The proposed project to develop a mega seaport just above Southport, to be called the NC International Terminal, has been put on hold. Mooneyham discusses the reasons.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 9, Sept 2010,
p20-21, por
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13154
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Located in Rutherfordton, in Rutherford County, the American Miso Company makes more miso the traditional way than anybody else in the world. This year, the company will produce over 400,000 pounds worth almost $3 million on the retail market.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 9, Sept 2010,
p48-55, il, por
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13155
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA ranks the top 100 private-sector employers in the state. Belk, Inc. claimed the top spot in this year's ranking.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 10, Oct 2010,
p36-43, il
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13227
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On its first day of business in October 1972, Biomedical Reference Laboratories, located in Burlington, earned $20. Founded by James B. Powell, M.D., the company was the seventh-largest independent clinical testing laboratory in the country in 1980, earning $3.5 million on sales of $34.4 million.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1981,
p51-53, il
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