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14043
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The editors of BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine interview Governor James B. Hunt on the state's economy, for which he forecasts vigorous growth, and other matters affecting North Carolina.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 3 Issue 12, Dec 1983,
p33-35, por
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14044
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The Research Triangle Park will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary on January 9, 1984. It is the largest planned research park in the world and is regularly compared to California's Silicon Valley. Currently the park has forty-five tenants that employ over 22,500 people with a payroll of $600 million.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 3 Issue 12, Dec 1983,
p38-42, 44, il
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14045
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Rauch formed his company Pyramid Mills in Gastonia in 1957 manufacturing balls of crochet thread and kite cord. In 1964 the company switched to Christmas ornaments. His company, now Rauch Industries, Inc. of Gastonia, is the largest Christmas tree ornament manufacturing company in the United States with sales of $14 million in fiscal 1983.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 3 Issue 12, Dec 1983,
p56-57, por
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14046
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Clyde Andrew founded Carolina Fabric Label Corp. in 1960 in Greensboro. At that time there were no label companies of any size in the Southeast printing labels for the textile industry. Today four companies account for 90 percent of the American market in printed cloth labels. CFL currently sells $10 million worth of printed and woven labels annually.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 3 Issue 12, Dec 1983,
p59-60, por
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14047
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Textile plants using technology virtually unknown before the 1970s are called \"Star Wars Plants\" in the industry. Plants in towns like Erwin, Wagram, and Cordova that have converted to the new high-tech equipment are not the noisy dusty plants of the past but clean, quiet ones that can out one hundred yards of cloth an hour. Seymour discusses the new technology's effect on the industry.
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14048
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This month's BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA community profile features the city of Charlotte.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 1, Jan 1984,
p28-30, 32, 34, 36-38, 40 , il
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14049
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In 1965, Iverson became president of Nuclear Corporation of America (Nucor) and the following year he moved the financially-troubled company's headquarters to Charlotte. From those humble beginnings, the steel company was soon producing two million tons of steel and steel products per year and earning a ranking as the tenth largest steel company in the country. In 1982, Nucor had $486 million in sales and over $22 million in net earnings.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 1, Jan 1984,
p41-42, por
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14050
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Shaw traces the histories of five successful companies that began operations in North Carolina and kept their roots. They are representative of the many homegrown companies in the diverse economic sectors within the state. The companies are Branch Banking and Trust Company, RJ Reynolds Industries, Inc., Lance, Inc., Carolina Freight Corporation, and Food Lion, Inc.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 2, Feb 1984,
p20-24, 26, 28, il, por
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14051
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Park grew up on a farm near Dobson in Surry County and graduated from North Carolina State University in 1930. After holding several different jobs, he began building a communications consortium in 1961. By 1977 he reached the FCC's then twenty-one station limit. He was also buying up newspapers. Today he owns twenty-four dailies, forty-seven weekly, semi-weekly and \"shopper\" papers. Circulation for all the papers is over 600,000.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 2, Feb 1984,
p34-35, por
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14052
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A small business that can offer a unique product or service that meets an unfilled consumer demand or desire is termed a niche business. The authors profile four companies that are representative of the many North Carolina firms that have found a niche. They are The Aviation Group (Raleigh); U.S. Cooler, Inc. (Tarboro); Total Concept, Inc. (Winston-Salem); and Long Life Lighting, Inc. (Charlotte).
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Mar 1984,
p13-15, 18-19, por
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14053
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This month's BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA community profile features the three cities in the Piedmont Triad - Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Mar 1984,
p20-21, 23-24, 28-29, 31, 33-34, 36, 38
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14054
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Sales of women's hosiery create over $2 billion annually. Over half of the hosiery manufactured in the United States is made by companies headquartered in North Carolina, and two of them produce the major portion - Hanes in Winston-Salem with its L'eggs division, and Kayser-Roth, which owns No Nonsense, in Greensboro.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Mar 1984,
p41-44, il
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14055
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Disston, Inc. of Greensboro is a 140-year-old company with a strong reputation for making quality hand and circular saws and other hardware products. However, by the mid-1980s the company had fallen on hard times and was losing money. Seymour recounts how Hank Libby joined the company, turned it around, and made it profitable again.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Mar 1984,
p45-46, 48, por
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14056
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When Oakwood Homes Corporation president James LaVasque was killed in a plane crash in 1978, Nicholas J. St. George was offered the position. The mobile home industry was at a low point in the late 1970s, and St. George was the force behind Oakwood's recovery.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Mar 1984,
p49-50, por
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14057
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Since its opening near Charlotte in 1973, Carowinds Amusement Park has entertained millions of people and generated millions of dollars. Shaw discusses the serious business activities that go on behind the scenes that that make the fun parks fun.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Mar 1984,
p51-53, il
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