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16337
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Marshall Rauch, who turned an old textile business into a fast-growing manufacturer of Christmas ornaments, is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA'S Entrepreneur of the Year for 1990. Rauch founded his company, Pyramid Mills, in Gastonia in 1957, and it is the largest Christmas tree ornament manufacturing company in the United States. He has represented the Twenty-fifth Senatorial District since 1967.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 10 Issue 10, Oct 1990,
p16-22, il, por
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16391
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In BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA'S first ever ranking of the state's largest employers, Sara Lee heads the list with 22,000 employees, followed by Food Lion with 21,700 and Duke University with 20,200.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 1, Jan 1991,
p16-20, 22, il
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16392
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Tom Fazio spends his time designing, planning, dreaming and visualizing golf courses in his Hendersonville offices. He is one of the country's top course designers and he limits his work to creating only six courses at a time. His services can cost from 10 to 20 percent of a golf course's total construction costs. He has designed over 120 courses.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 2, Feb 1991,
p41-43, 45-47, por
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16393
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Tom Broadfoot, of Broadfoot Publishing Co. in Wilmington, sells old Civil War books and republishes many out-of-print ones. The company publishes 125 books and sells over 50,000 books a year. The company not only sells in this country but also has a following in England, Australia, and Brussels.
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16394
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Paul Perello opened Paul's Fine Italian Dining in Winston-Salem in 1988. Bailey describes the restaurant and its cuisine.
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16408
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA presents its annual ranking of the state's largest seventy-five companies. For the first nine years the rankings were based on total revenues. This year the rankings are based on market value--the number of shares outstanding times the stock price. Duke Power, Food Lion, and Carolina Power & Light held the top three positions.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 5, May 1991,
p33, 35-42, 44-45, il
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16409
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In 1965, B. C. Hedgepeth purchased Tucker George's Oyster Roast and opened a new steakhouse called Trails End. John Coble managed the restaurant for two years, then he and his wife purchased it. Four years later it burned, but the Coble's rebuilt it. McKee describes the décor and the menu served.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 5, May 1991,
p77-79, il
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16410
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Arthur Anderson & Co. ranks the state's top one hundred private companies. To qualify, a company must be privately held, have fewer than five hundred stockholders, have stock not traded on any exchange, cannot be a subsidiary or division of another company, cannot be primarily in retail, real estate, or financial services, and must be headquartered in North Carolina. Burlington Industries, Inc. heads the list, followed by Cone Mills Corp. and Dillard Paper Co.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 6, June 1991,
p16-20, 23-27, il
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16411
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA submitted a list of twenty questions to CEOs of the state's largest private companies. Questions included Should the governor have the veto? How has the Gulf War affected your business? What do you think is the biggest challenge facing business in the state in this decade? And how do you think the state's business climate has changed? Loven discusses the responses which indicate that the CEOs want a plan for the state that emphasizes change.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 6, June 1991,
p38-42, 43-44, il
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16412
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The Holbrook House Restaurant, located in Huntersville, is in a 100-year-old restored farmhouse. It is considered an American dining house, which means it serves only foods produced in the United States.
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16413
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Bailey discusses how Ashley Futrell purchased the WASHINGTON DAILEY NEWS, a newspaper with a beleaguered staff and circulation of 2,700, and built it into an 11,000-circulation paper now worth millions. Heart trouble forced him to turn the paper over to his son Brownie, and it was under Brownie's guidance that articles on dangerous cancer-causing chemicals in the city's water that won the paper a 1990 Pulitzer Prize. The senior Futrell was recently named to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 8, Aug 1991,
p44-47, por
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16414
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Bailey describes the cuisine at the Madison Park Restaurant in Greensboro where gracious dining is first and foremost.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 8, Aug 1991,
p53-54-55
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16415
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Robert P. Freese, CEO of Alphatronix, is Business North Carolina's Entrepreneur of the Year. Alphatronix, located in the Research Triangle Park, introduced the first optical storage system in mid-1988.\r\n\r\n
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 10, Oct 1991,
p16-22, por
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16416
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Stroud discusses the career and work of Jim Long, North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance. He has held the position since 1985.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 11 Issue 11, Nov 1991,
p16-20, 22, 24-25, por
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16610
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When the recession hit in the first decade of the twenty-first century, many North Carolina tourist attractions took a hit. A panel of travel and tourism insiders discusses how their businesses survived and how they are tackling the future. Among the questions covered were \"What's the state of the travel and tourism economy?\" \"How have you reacted to changes brought on by the economic downturn?\" and \"How does your industry affect your region?\"
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 32 Issue 4, Apr 2012,
p14-19, por
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