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13228
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Betty Wade of Winston-Salem started her company, Professional Office Personnel, Inc. (POPI), in 1971. Today, the company has 225 to 250 temporary workers on the payroll, working from 2,000 to 3,000 combined hours a week. In 1980, billings totaled $1.5 million.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1981,
p54-55, il
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13229
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Richard Barentine is the executive director of the Furniture Factories' Marketing Association of the South. The Southern Furniture Market is held April and October and is the largest single event held in North Carolina. His job is to let people know about the market, what it is, and what it means, not only to the state, but to the rest of the country as well.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1981,
p56-57, 58, il
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13230
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Parks Dalton is president and CEO of Interstate Securities Corporation, the largest securities firm based in North Carolina. In this BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA interview, he discusses the future of regional brokerage firms.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Oct 1981,
p60-61, 63-64, por
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13231
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During interviews with several North Carolina families that owned businesses, Seymour found that there are some very complicated but successful ways to make certain that company ownership is passed on to succeeding generations.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Nov 1981,
p11-17, il
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13232
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State officials are working with private enterprise to position Morehead City as one of the country's leading coal exporting facilities. The Morehead City coal terminal is the first new coal facility on the East Coast built especially to meet the growing demands of the world export market. Parker discusses what is happening there presently and what might happen in the future.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Nov 1981,
p18-25, il
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13233
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College sports are big business in North Carolina these days. Green examines the growing costs of fielding a team and the large profits some of them produce. As one athletic director says, \"An AD has to be a combination of businessman as well as educator. We're running a financially self-sustaining program in an educational environment.\"
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Nov 1981,
p34-39, il
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13234
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The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company is the world's largest African-American financial institutions. The company is the 129th largest insurance company in the nation. It February 1982, the company will mark its 83rd year of operation.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Nov 1981,
p47-48, por
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13235
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In this BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA interview, William R. Howard, president of Piedmont Airline Division of Piedmont Aviation, Inc., discusses changes and challenges in the Winston-Salem-based company.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Nov 1981,
p53-56, por
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13236
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Business North Carolina begins a bi-monthly series listing new and expanded businesses in the state, as well as what they do.
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13237
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George Washington Vanderbilt built his 250-room mansion, the Biltmore House and accompanying gardens, in Asheville in the 1890s. Hales discusses the commercial interests on the estate today that continue to add to the family fortune.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 3, Dec 1981,
p39-40, il
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13256
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Roald H. Sorensen founded his company in Angier, and the products that made his company virtually indispensable to the sport of basketball were developed in the late 1960s. They were the Hydra-Rib, a highly advanced portable basketball backstop, and the Gorilla Goal, a goal with a flexible rim that can withstand dunking and spring back, instead of shattering the backboard.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 3, Dec 1981,
p41-42, por
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13257
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Swaringen profiles William M. Sullivan, who is the new chief executive of Burroughs-Wellcome Pharmaceutical Company.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 3, Dec 1981,
p43-44, por
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13258
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Brad Ragan, Jr. is president, chairman, and CEO of Brad Ragan Inc., a company founded by his father. It is one of the thirty largest companies in North Carolina with revenues in 1981 of $163 million. The company employs 1,600 in subsidiaries from Alaska to Florida. Although the company sells tires to the public in thirty-eight stores in the Carolinas, a large source of its incomes comes from sales of massive tires used on heavy equipment by mining and road construction companies. Brad Ragan Inc. is the world's largest retreader of such off-the-road tires.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 3, Dec 1981,
p45-46, por
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13259
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In this BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA interview, Laughery, president, chairman, and CEO of Rocky Mount-based Hardee's Food Systems, Inc., discusses the company's chances for growth in a depressed economy. Hardee's is the country's fourth-largest hamburger chain.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 1 Issue 3, Dec 1981,
p47-52, por
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13260
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After a period of recovery from the 1974-75 recession, real estate in the North Carolina mountains is booming again. Parker presents information on several projects there. Although high interest rates and soaring costs exist, people have not stopped buying and contractors have not stopped building.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Jan 1982,
p12-15, 17-18, il
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