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16162
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Nido R. Qubein became president of High Point University in 2005. He brought with him a distinguished career in leadership, communication, and business. Since then the University has experienced extraordinary growth in enrollment, and Qubein and his team of faculty and staff have transformed High Point into a highly recognized institution with differentiated value and distinctive academics.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 2, Feb 2012,
p14-21, il
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16163
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA ranks the top 100 private-sector employers in the state. Many of them have more jobs, 4 percent more than the year previous, indicating less unemployment ahead. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Duke University ranked first and second.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 2, Feb 2012,
p40-43, il
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16164
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Jerry Richardson is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's Mover and Shaker of the Year. A former player in the NFL and member of the championship Baltimore Colts, Richardson dreamed of bringing professional football back to his home in the Carolinas. In 1993 he became the majority owner and founder of the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 2, Feb 2012,
p44-51, il, por
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16245
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Hugh McColl, CEO of NCNB in Charlotte, is Business North Carolina's Mover and Shaker of the Year.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 1, Jan 1989,
p22-27, 30-33, il, por
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16246
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Carl Scheer is president and general manager of the Charlotte Hornets, an NBA team. Donsky discusses with him what these positions entail and what the stress level is. Among his previous positions were assistant to the NBA Commissioner, four years with the old Carolina Cougars, and ten years with the Denver Nuggets.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Feb 1989,
p24-28, 30-31, il, por
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16247
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Oliver is agriculture adviser to Governor James Martin and agribusiness specialist to the N.C. Department of Commerce. He can walk the walk--he is a farmer and runs a 200-year-old 200-acre Robeson County farm. He is a big promoter of the agribusiness in the state where tobacco, cotton, and peanuts are large crops. He feels as these crops decline farmers should shift to crops like shitake mushrooms, kenaf, and herbs as niche crops. For example, the country imports over $1 billion in herbs, which he would make a nine \"cottage industry\" in the state.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 3, Mar 1989,
p14, 16-17, il
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16248
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The authors describe the rise and fall of the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, Liston Ramsey, of Madison County.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 3, Mar 1989,
p28-30, 32, 34-35, por
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16249
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Bob McNeill of Fayetteville is one of only about a dozen mannequin makers in the country. He sells refinished ones for $195 to $295 and new bodies run $300 to $600 or more. His creations inhabit small-town store fronts, large department stores, and museums.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 3, Mar 1989,
p73-74, il
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16268
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's annual ranking of the state's top fifty public companies reveals that in the last eight years seventy-five companies have appeared on the list. The twenty-five that are gone were sold, moved, or taken private. Food Lion, Lowe's Co., and Rose's Stores head this year's list.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 5, May 1989,
p18-19, 22, 24-31, 34-37, il
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16269
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Twenty-five years ago Nucor Corp. was about to go under. In 1988 the company sold over $1 billion of steel and steel products, making it the ninth largest steel manufacturer in the country and the sixth-largest publicly held company in the state. While Nucor employs 5,000 people in twenty-two plants in nine states, the corporate headquarters in Charlotte employ only seventeen. In this BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA interview, Nucor Chairman Ken Iverson talks with Donsky about Nucor and what makes it work.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 5, May 1989,
p38-40, 42-44, 46, 48-50, por
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16270
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Elie Gut, a Swiss emigrant, opened a little zipper factory in New York in 1939. He later moved the company, Ideal Fastener Corp., to Oxford in 1966. Today, the company still family-owned and run by his son Ralph, has grown from a 25,000 square feet plant with six employees to 125,000 square feet one and 350 employees. Ideal has made everything from a 227-foot-long zipper to secure AstroTurf to zippers for closing surgical incisions.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 5, May 1989,
p76-83, il, por
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16271
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In 1966, James W. Geyer, the founder and guiding genius of Burlington's Roche Biomedical Laboratories Inc.'s paternity lab, planned to leave and set up his own company. Although offered many inducements to stay, he and three other key scientists moved over to Greensboro and established Genetic Design, Inc. Today private-paternity testing is a growing industry, and over half of the paternity testing in the nation is done by these two companies.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 6, June 1989,
p28-32, 34-37, 39, il
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16272
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The state's top one hundred private companies are compiled by Arthur Anderson & Co. McDevitt & Street Co., a Charlotte contractor, heads the list, with Cone Mills Corp. second. Cogentrix Inc., which builds little steam plants, is the featured company, jumping forty-six places from seventieth to twenty-fourth.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 6, June 1989,
p40-42, 44-49, 51-53, il, por
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16273
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Sellmeyer recounts the story of Joe Louis Dudley, Sr., the son of a poor Beaufort County farmer, who rose from poverty to become the millionaire owner of one of the Southeast's largest ethnic hair-care products companies--Dudley Products. His forty-state market stretches from coast-to-coast, where his employees sell to 23,000 cosmetologists at more than 12,000 beauty salons.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 6, June 1989,
p74-76, 78-79, 81-83, por
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16274
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine conducted it first survey of real-estate developers in the state, listing the top twenty developers of office space, industrial space, and retail space. Childress Klein Properties of Charlotte (office space), Forsyth Partners of Winston-Salem (industrial space), and Developers Diversified of Raleigh (retail space) ranked first in their respective categories.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 8, Aug 1989,
p40-43, il
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