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14320
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Vermont Royster, a native of North Carolina, retired as editor of the Wall Street Journal. The Pulitzer Prize winning author explains why he chose to come home to retire.
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14326
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With almost 500 courses across the state from the mountains to the coast, golfing is a big contributor to the economy. The money spent on golf alone is nearly $500 million annually. This does not include what overnight visitors spend on lodging, travel, and food.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 9, Sept 1984,
p15-16, 18, il
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14327
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Yancey County is located in the heart of the state's high country. It is a place of magnificent scenery, but at the same time a place with few farms, no natural gas, no water transportation, no airport, and since the 1977 flood, no railroad. It was hit hard by the recession of the early 1980s. DeLaughter explains how the county has overcome the severe impact of the recession.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 9, Sept 1984,
p43-44, 46, 48, il
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14328
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The staff of BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine interviews gubernatorial candidates Rufus Edmisten (Democrat) and Jim Martin (Republican) for their views on business issues facing the state.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 10, Oct 1984,
p20-23, por
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14329
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Sidney L. Alderman founded the Alderman Company, a photography company, in Greensboro in 1898, and later moved to High Point to serve the growing furniture industry. Sidney A. Gayle, his grandson, now heads the company that has become the largest still photographer in the nation, designing and producing in 1983, 2,500 catalogs, involving 100,000 office and room interiors, 350,000 photographs, and almost one million photographic prints. The company has over eight acres of under-roof studio space and eighty photographic bays.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 4 Issue 10, Oct 1984,
p55-56, 58-59, il
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14386
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In 1961, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte relocated north of Charlotte. The city's leadership, recognizing the potential for research and development growth there, created the University Research Park, a 3,500-acre park located near UNC-C. Current tenants include IBM, Dow Jones, and Union Oil of California. Quirk discusses how AT&T decided to join the group.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 5 Issue 1, Jan 1985,
p35-37, il
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14740
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Algonquin Books operates out of a small, cramped building behind publisher Louis D. Rubin's house in Chapel Hill. The company's purpose is to publish quality books that showcase emerging Southern writers. In the past three years, fifteen titles have been published with seven more to be added this year. Rubin and his senior editor and cofounder Shannon Ravenel work without compensation. Although the company has a growing reputation, the economic life of a small press is perilous. To turn a profit, the company must publish 3,500 copies of a title.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 5 Issue 1, Jan 1985,
p43-44, por
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14741
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James E. Heins is the third generation of a family known for its pioneering in the telecommunications industry. His father and grandfather founded Heins Telephone Company in Sanford in 1923. That company operates 20,000 lines in four counties (Lee, Harnett, Moore, and Chatham) and is state regulated. Three years ago Heins founded Heins Communications, Inc., a non-regulated company that specializes in sales, service and maintenance of private phone systems. The company had sales of $3 million in 1984 and forecasts sales of $5 million in 1985.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 5 Issue 2, Feb 1985,
p25-26, por
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14742
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Murphy Manufacturing of Wilson was the largest manufacturer of customized refrigerated truck bodies in the country. However, the company had fallen on hard times with low morale among employees, declining sales brought on by the 1981-82 recession, and a critical need to upgrade outdated equipment and production methods. Purchasing an ailing company can be risky, but C. William Layman, owner of a Charlotte plastics company, and Harold Domenico, founder of Charlotte-based Management Analysts, Inc., undertook the challenge. Timblin discusses the results of their efforts.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 5 Issue 2, Feb 1985,
p37, 39, por
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14743
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Greensboro seeks to create an image that is distinct from Raleigh or Charlotte. To do this, the city has embarked upon its biggest downtown construction boom since the Great Depression of the 1920s. Robinson discusses what is being built where, when, and by whom.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 5 Issue 3, Mar 1985,
p33-34, 36, 38, il
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14744
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Sixty years ago Elon College professor, Dr. Thomas Powell, Jr., started selling amoebas and frogs to biology teachers. That humble beginning grew into Burlington-based Carolina Biological Supply Company, a company that produces scientific educational products that include everything from maggots to tarantulas to kits that teach genetic engineering. It is the largest company of its type in the world, employing over 400 people with sales of over $25 million a year.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 5 Issue 3, Mar 1985,
p47-50, por
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14745
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Tourism was a large part of Asheville's economy at the turn of the century, but it soon gave way to manufacturing and other businesses operating in the western part of the state. Manufacturing still contributes about $312 million to the economy, but tourism is making a comeback. The Asheville Chamber of Commerce projects tourism revenues of $245 million in 1985 and that tourism will become the city's number one industry in the next three or four years.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 5 Issue 4, Apr 1985,
p14-17, il
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14746
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North Carolina has the highest per capita consumption of soft drinks in the nation, with $850 million in sales in 1984. Much of that was taken in by Pepsi and Coca-Cola, the remainder going to small bottling companies which are often locally owned and operated. Wolfe-Cundiff discusses the competition between the companies for the consumers' dollars and the difficulty faced by small bottlers when competing with the industry giants.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 5 Issue 4, Apr 1985,
p20-22, 24-26, il
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14747
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Tom Clark, a professor of religion at Davidson College, began carving gnome-like creatures as a hobby. The hobby has now grown into a thriving, multimillion dollar business. Clark's statues of gnomes and wood spirits have made him one of the best known sculptors in the country and one of the most prolific in the figurine industry.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 5 Issue 4, Apr 1985,
p37-38, por
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14748
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's fourth annual ranking of public companies reveals that the top two companies held the same rankings for 1984 as in 1983 - RJ Reynolds Industries, Inc. and Burlington Industries, Inc. respectively. Lowe's Companies, Inc., located in North Wilkesboro, moved from fifth to third.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 5 Issue 5, May 1985,
p53-55, il
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