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13779
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Ireland discusses some of the state's pioneer automakers in the early decades of the 20th-century.
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13780
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In this on-going series of articles called Expense Account Dining, Bailey describes Prisms Restaurant, located in Charlotte.
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13861
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Autobell Car Wash, Inc., founded in Charlotte in 1969 by the late Chuck Howard, Sr. and currently overseen by his son Chuck, Jr., is the nation's largest regional car-wash chain. Still privately owned, the company recently opened its sixty-first wash. Each new one costs an average of $2 million.
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13862
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When the merger of Progress Energy and Duke Energy is completed later in 2011, it will create the country's largest utility. This article presents a capsule view of what the merger will look like.
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14015
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Reeves, a native of Raleigh, discusses why his alternative weekly publication, Spectator, has been successful while others in the same metropolitan area have failed. In its first year of publication, Spectator had over $127,000 in sales. Final sales figures for 1982 are expected to top $900,000.
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14016
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Shotwell is president of Shotwell and Partners, Inc., an advertising agency located in Charlotte. In this BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine interview, he discusses the health of the advertising business and the changes brought on by the recession.
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14017
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Marion Rex Harris of Fayetteville is chairman of the board of International and Domestic Development Corp. (IDDC), and several other companies. He is also the founder and continuing board member of Custom Molders, Inc. of Durham. His company is ranked twenty-first among the top African American businesses in the country by Black Enterprise magazine.
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14018
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The A-B Emblem Company, located in Weaverville seven miles from Asheville, is the world's second largest producer of emblems. The company makes about twenty-five million a year for a variety of customers. Sales total about $8 million.
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14020
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Trion, Inc., located in Sanford, is the world's largest maker of electronic air cleaners, from table top models to giant industrial systems. The company relocated from Pennsylvania to Sanford in 1965.
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14021
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In this BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine interview, Charles Heatherly, director of the North Carolina Department of Commerce's Travel and Tourism Division, discusses methods used to promote North Carolina and why his division has been successful during poor economic times.
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14022
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There are over one hundred publicly held companies in North Carolina. Business North Carolina ranks the top thirty because they account for a substantial part of the state's business activity. The companies are ranked according to a variety of statistics.
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14024
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Troxler, a Research Triangle businessman, whose company manufactures nuclear gauges, turned a basement business into a $6 million, award-winning exporting operation.
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14025
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Burlington's outlet stores have given the city the nickname of \"the outlet capital of the South.\" While most shoppers pay for their purchases, a number do not. Each year the outlets lose money to shoplifters operating either individually or in elaborately organized rings. Estimates put last year's loses at $2.5 million.