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16275
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Bill Zimmer bought his first jewelry store in Wilmington in 1946 and changed the name to Reeds. By 1979 his family-owned company had grown to twenty-four stores. Nationwide there are 32,000 separately owned jewelry stores competing in a $13 billion market. Donsky describes what happened when son Alan Zimmer came into the business in the 1980s and took the company public and growing it to sixty-three stores.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 8, Aug 1989,
p52-54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, por
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16276
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Katherine Fulton is the editor of the Durham-based Independent, an alternative press. While many of these newspapers which emerged from the 1960s rebellion against the establishment have become more interested in making many than in making waves, the Independent has not. What sets it apart is that \"it has a spine of steel, solid investigative pieces, witty, incisive coverage of politics and state government, and relishes pointing out when the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.\"
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 10, Oct 1989,
p54-56, 59-60, 62, 64, 66, por
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16277
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Perkins compares Raleigh's City Market with Charlotte's Cityfair and explains why Raleigh is thriving and Charlotte is not.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 9 Issue 12, Dec 1989,
p48-50, 53-54, 56, 58, 60, il
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16286
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Sierra Nevada Brewing Company of Chico, California, the nation's sixth largest craft brewery, will build its second brewery in Henderson County. The company will build about twelve miles south of Asheville, and the brewery will have a restaurant and gift shop.
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16289
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David Campbell is CEO of Charlotte-based Boxman Studios LLC. The company refurbishes cargo containers for reuse as places where vendors and exhibitors can sell and show their wares. Used containers can be purchased for under $2,000, and his staff will spend three to four weeks modifying them. Campbell then leases them for $2,500 the first day, then $500 for each day thereafter.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 3, Mar 2012,
p68-73, il
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16290
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Philip Maung, from Burma of Chinese extraction, came to America with a dream. He began his quest in his Charlotte living room fourteen years ago with a borrowed $100,000. Today, the business, Hissho Sushi, has over 400 sushi kiosks in high-end supermarkets across the country. The company, headquartered in Charlotte, has 400 employees and independent contractors and had sales on $43.6 million in 2011. Recently he has made forays in airport restaurants. Davis describes his early life and his dream.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 3, Mar 2012,
p58-67, il
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16327
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Rocky Proffit's company, National Advertising and Promotion, Co., located in Sparta, makes boards for such games as Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary. The number ranges between one and three million annually; clients include Milton Bradley and Western Publishing. The company, which employs 70, also makes point-of-purchase displays, school supplies, and photo albums.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 1, Jan 1990,
p65-66, il
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16328
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C. D. Spangler achieved fame and fortune in the world of business. Now he is moving into the academic world as president of the University of North Carolina System. Donsky discusses how well this change is going.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 2, Feb 1990,
p22-26, 29-30, 32-33, por
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16330
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Rabb discusses the work of the North Carolina Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. The Conservancy buys property to protect endangered species or important habitats. Since the local chapter formed in 1977, it has bought 320,000 acres and placed it off-limits to real estate development. Almost 70 percent of the preserved land has come in as gifts, and the chapter has the support of forty-two North Carolina corporate contributors who help supply the group's land protection fund.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 3, Mar 1990,
p73-75, il
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16331
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Bailey recounts the origin and growth of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company of Durham.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 4, Apr 1990,
p36-38, 40, 42-43, il
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16332
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Deep discounters like Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and Target are putting a dent in profits earned by chain-stores, such as Rose's. Bailey discusses how this store is coping with the challenge of the low discount retailers.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 5, May 1990,
p32-37, 40, 42 , il
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16333
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In the 1970s, when polyester clothing was all the rage, Rocky Mount-based Texfi Industries, Inc. was flying high, with good profits and shares reaching as high as $68. Then consumers moved on to other styles and Texfi lost million over the next decade; by 1984 the company was down to three plants. Donsky describes how the new chairman and CEO, Terrell Sovey, turned the company into a profitable one again.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 5, May 1990,
p44-46, 48-52, por
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16334
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Reggie Fountain is a champion powerboat racer and his company, Fountain Powerboats of Washington, is a $20 million-a-year business in a boating industry that has doubled to $18 billion nationwide as of 1988. However, overproduction and a downturn in luxury boat buying has reduced profits for many and some manufacturers have gone into bankruptcy. Perkins discusses Fountain's company and its prospects for the future.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 6, June 1990,
p56-58, 60, 62, 65, 67, por
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16335
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Georgia-based Charter Medical Corp. has four psychiatric hospitals in the state, making it North Carolina's largest private provider of drug-and alcohol-abuse treatment for the state's estimated 214,000 alcoholics and 19,500 drug addicts. The biggest problem faced by Charter and other providers like Amethyst in Charlotte and Laurinburg is that the people who need the services many times resist any suggestion that there is anything wrong with them.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 7, July 1990,
p32-34, 36-38, 40, 42, il
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16336
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Several owners of North Carolina construction companies discuss the advantages of renovating older buildings during a time when money is tight.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 8, Aug 1990,
p32-36, il
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