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24411
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The face of manufacture in Winston-Salem is changing, especially since most of the business in the city is based on the tobacco industry. This article discusses how businessmen helped the city’s growth potential by making improvements to the Super Block.
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The North Carolina pharmaceutical industry is rapidly expanding its research and production facilities. This article presents the top pharmaceutical companies in North Carolina and how they are helping expand the business in the state.
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Dino de Laurentiis, a prodigious movie producer, is building his primary permanent production facility in Wilmington, prompting some people to consider North Carolina as Hollywood number two.
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Robert and Joan Zimmerman produce six nationally known trade and consumer shows annually. This article discusses how the couple successfully manages business and marriage.
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This article discusses whether too much development in North Carolina cities, such as Cary and Charlotte, is a danger, especially since many of the developers come from out-of-state.
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There are ten ski resorts in North Carolina and this article presents the ups and downs of the industry since the first lodge opened in 1961. Pivotal to the ski industry in the south is the snow-making machine, which has helped the industry steadily increase over the years.
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Terry Sanford is retiring as president of Duke University; this article presents his career as an attorney, legislator, governor, and twice-failed candidate for U.S. president.
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This article discusses whether a passenger train, called the Carolinian, through the North Carolina Piedmont makes sense to business.
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This article discusses how businesses lower travel costs when travelling for sales meetings. Employees fly economy, choose cheaper red eye flights, or drive long distances.
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In the 1980s, only 500 people lived in Rolesville, North Carolina, but by 2004, the population had doubled in size. Much of this growth is due to Raleigh’s explosive expansion in the 1990s as well as the establishment of a comprehensive water and sewer system for northeastern Wake County in the 1990s. The system opened northeast Wake County—Rolesville in particular—to residential development, but residents still hold onto their small town’s history.
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Duke Energy’s current Chief Executive Officer, Lynn Good, assumed her role in the summer of 2013. Seven months into the job, she faced the Dan River crisis, and rose to the occasion. She has demonstrated her ability to oversee the coal-ash crisis and now she moves forward with planning the company’s future.
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TS Designs in Burlington is a corporate company that prioritizes social benefits over maximizing profits. Following the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, TS Designs lost many customers to overseas producers, which forced the company to cut jobs. Now, the company is coming back strong and focuses on using American-made material for its products.
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After North Carolina and other states in the South lifted their laws that limited the alcohol content of craft-brewed beverages, the hard cider industry made a comeback. Two Asheville men, Trevor Baker and Lief Stevens started Nobel Cider in 2012. They use local apples for their hard cider and distribute their product as far east as Charlotte.
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Fred Klein, one of the Senior Managing Partners for Childress Klein Properties Inc. has helped structurally build Charlotte. His partnership team has emerged as the dominant developer in the Charlotte area, for it is responsible for the construction of such buildings as the Charlotte Plaza, the One First Union center, and the Duke Energy Center.
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In the last decade, scammers have increasingly targeted seniors through a variety of schemes. Many North Carolina seniors have become victims of such crimes and some have lost millions of dollars to sweepstakes scams, investment schemes, and medicare and health insurance fraud, among many others.
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