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13261
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The National Association of Printers and Lithographers presented the 1980-81 Best Managed Printing Company Awards in February 1981. Of the companies from the fifty states and Canada eligible for the award, printers from North Carolina took most of the honors. Seymour discusses the printing industry in North Carolina.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Jan 1982,
p26-31, il
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13262
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In this first in a series of reports on government issues affecting business in the state, Shaw discusses the proposed North Carolina severance tax. If passed, the law would place a levy on anything taken out of the ground; this would have a large impact on mining companies, brick companies, and anybody using such products. Mining companies say it would affect their ability to compete, and mining companies considering relocation to North Carolina might be deterred by such a tax.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Jan 1982,
p32-35, il
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13263
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ETRI, Inc. is a French-owned American corporation that has operated in Monroe since 1978. The company specializes in small fans that cool heat producing computer components.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Jan 1982,
p41-42, il
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13264
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Ken Younger is president and chief executive officer of Carolina Freight Carriers Corporation. Headquartered in Cherryville in Gaston County, the company operates 101 terminals in 22 states, shipping freight up and down the East Coast, and to the middle and far West. In this BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA interview, he discusses the deregulation of the trucking industry.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Jan 1982,
p45-48, por
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13265
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For most of the 20th-century, farmers in North Carolina have depended on tobacco for a large part of their income. Tobacco holds a dominant position in the state's agricultural market, with the plant grown in 91 of the state's one 100 counties. Parker discusses challenges facing tobacco growers, including foreign imports, concerns over smoking and health, and the government's longstanding allocation system.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 2, Feb 1982,
p16-17, 19-21, il
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13266
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Parker examines the manufacturing aspects of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, where companies like RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris are spending large sums of money to stay competitive in this highly profitable industry.
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13267
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Adams examines some of the new and novel ways that marketing divisions of major North Carolina tobacco companies are using to attract smokers to their products.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 2, Feb 1982,
p32-35, 37, il
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13268
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Three North Carolina cities are getting new airport terminals in 1982. They are Raleigh-Durham; Charlotte's Douglas Airport; and the Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem Regional Airport.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 2, Feb 1982,
p38-44, il
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13294
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Jean Webber is president of the American Minority Industries Company (AMICO) located in Charlotte. The five-year-old company manufactures computer tab cards.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 2, Feb 1982,
p45-46, por
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13295
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In 1962 the Record Bar was a single mom-and-pop store in a dying section of downtown Durham. By 1982, it had grown into the second-largest national retail chain in the record industry with sales in 1981 of $65 million. The retail chain has 136 stores in twenty-eight states.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 2, Feb 1982,
p47-48, il
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13296
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In this Business North Carolina interview, Juanita Kreps, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, discusses the economy, the Reagan Administration, and future economic growth.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 2, Feb 1982,
p49-52, por
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13297
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Yellow poplar growing in McDowell County has attracted the interest of Oregon-based Columbia Plywood Corporation. The company's subsidiary, Columbia Carolina Corporation, is building a plant at Old Fort to make its product, with completion expected by summer of 1982. Initial production is expected to be twenty million board feet a year. Over two hundred people will be employed when the plant reaches full operation.
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13298
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Defense contracts are highly important to North Carolina companies and businesses. About 1,100 companies in the state have military contracts to supply everything from boots to aircraft guidance systems. These contracts total more than $860 million.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 3, Mar 1982,
p12-18, il, map
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13299
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Headquartered at Mt. Gilead in Montgomery County, McRae Industries is one of four contractors in the nation that supply boots to the government. McRae got its first contract during the Vietnam War when the Army switched boot styles. At that time it had sixty employees; today McRae has 225. The company produces about 45,000 pairs of boots a month, slightly more than a third of the total industry output.
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13302
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Adams profiles Robert Strickland who is chairman of North Wilkesboro's Lowe's Companies, Inc.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 2 Issue 3, Mar 1982,
p47-48, por
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