Professional golf tournaments in NC attract big-name pros and tourists. They include K mart Greater Greensboro Open, Paine Webber Invitational, U.S. Senior Open Championship, and Vantage Championship.
The author discusses the uses and the value of the Internet, drawing on examples of NC businesses that have taken advantage of this network (Octagon Trading Group, Daniels & Daniels, SAS Institute, Indelible Blue).
Western NC is pushing a program called \"Handmade in America,\" which organizers hope will expand the crafts industry and transform the economically depressed region into the crafts center of America.
Profile of Jerry Richardson, chairman and CEO of Flagstar Companies, Inc. and managing partner of Richardson Sports, who is responsible for bringing the Carolina Panthers NFL franchise to Charlotte.
Greensboro native Erskine Bowles, U.S. Small Business Administration administrator, reported new proposals for streamlining the SBA and reducing governmental red tape at the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry's 52nd annual meeting.
In response to NC's rise from 41st nationally to 16th in crime, state officials and educators discussed old and new methods of crime prevention and control at the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry's annual meeting.
This article details the growing tourism industry in Duplin County, which revolves around attractions such as the Duplin Winery in Rose Hill, the 240 year-old Kenansville Spring and Liberty Hall, ancestral home of the Kenan family.
Kinston business leader C. Felix Harvey, president of the North Carolina Global TransPark Foundation, was honored with the 26th annual Citation for Distinguished Citizenship given by the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry.
After 43 years of service in NC's public schools and universities, retired educator Dr. Jay M. Robinson was honored by the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry with its 44th annual Citation for Distinguished Public Service.
Morris & Associates, a Garner refrigeration and ice-making company, is sending the world's biggest ice maker to Seoul. The thermal storage system, which has the capacity to produce over a half-million pounds of ice per day, will cool an office complex.
Northern Telecom, located in Research Triangle Park, has won a contract valued at $40 million to supply telecommunications equipment to the Republic of Tunisia.
Pass & Seymour/Legrand, the North American arm of Legrand, Limoges, France, has chosen to invest in a Greensboro facility for the manufacture of electric wiring devices.
After suffering the negative consequences of a \"Prime Time Live\" expose, Food Lion, Inc. has rebounded as stock prices have risen and new stores have opened.
Economically strapped counties in North Carolina have been the major beneficiaries of efforts by the state's Industrial Recruitment Competitive Fund to bring industry, and thus jobs, to the state.