Recently added articles from Business North Carolina:
From the vault.(UPFRONT)
Jun 01, 2009 ... We once had an editor who believed the magazine put too much emphasis on banking an accusation to which I, as the guy guiding BNC's coverage the last 22 years, can only plead guilty. I wonder what he'd say about this month's issue. But in our--my--defense, I question how a magazine whose ...
NC trend.(Statistical table)
Jun 01, 2009 ... <Pre> Latest Previous Previous % change monthmonth yearfrom last year EMPLOYMENT Employed (000s) 4,060.9 4,094.2 4,276.4 (5.0) ...
Stock watch.(Statistical table)(Company rankings)
Jun 01, 2009 ... <Pre> HIGHEST PRICE/EARNINGS RATIOS CompanyP/E ratio (3) 4/24/09 52-weekpricerange Highwoods Properties 522.6$26.13$14.65-38.25 Cree ...
Economic outlook.(Interview)
Jun 01, 2009 ... BNC: Has the incentive program been a waste of money? Lane: No, it hasn't We entered a new era of economic-development competition in the '90s when incentives were extraordinarily useful. North Carolina didn't want to do incentives--we had to because everybody around us was ...
They keep it relative: Wake Forest University's initial family-business awards go to drug-store and car-wash chains, a charter-bus service and a paper maker.(FAMILY BUSINESS OF THE YEAR)(Young Transportation)(Autobell Car Wash Inc. )(Moose Pharmacy )
Jun 01, 2009 ... Families evolve at different rates, so it's no surprise that family businesses do the same. As long as they change for the better, they keep success in their sights. The Family Business Center at Wake Forest University Schools of Business this month will present its lust North (Carolina ...
The Queen city's slipping crown.(FINEPRINT)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Anyone who has lived in North Carolina longer than, oh, 15 minutes or so knows of the intense sibling rivalry between Charlotte and Raleigh. If cities had family reunions, those two would be at each other's throat before the cover was off the first dish. In my 30 years of newspapering, the ...
Tax could be at your service.(CAPITALGOODS)(Law overview)(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Every so often, I'm reminded that journalists enjoy only about as much popularity among the general public as lawyers. Usually those reminders come from friends who happen to be, yes, lawyers, which forces me to retort that, even so, there's no genre of jokes focused solely on disparaging ...
Cecil Goins.(PERSONNELFILE)(North Carolina. General Assembly)(Occupation overview)
Jun 01, 2009; ... The General Assembly hasn't made it easy for Cecil Goins to do his job--keeping the legislature's upper house safe. Sergeant-at-arms since 1992, he oversees a 15-member detail that provides security for Senate sessions and committee meetings. Due to a peculiarity in state law, visitors to ...
Jim Stevens.(PERSONNELFILE)
Jun 01, 2009; ... When Jim Stevens was searching for a place to start a security business in 1998, he chose one where he felt secure. He had summered in Morehead City as a child, and his parents recently had retired there. He even stayed there for his next venture after selling that company, Security ...
Larry O'Brien.(PERSONNELFILE)(Security Forces, Inc.)(Occupation overview)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Thirty-seven years ago, Larry O'Brien began a career in business development at Charlotte-based Security Forces. Now 65, he's part owner, and the company has expanded from 100 employees to more than 3,400. Revenue was about $104 million last year, up $3.5 million from 2007. Clients include ...
Joe Budd.(PERSONNELFILE)(Budd Group)(Occupation overview)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Even as a child, Joe Budd took the family business seriously. After church, he helped make the rounds of buildings cleaned by what was then North State Supply Inc., a small janitorial company his father, Richard, had purchased in 1963. Budd, 46, still works at the family ...
Spotlight on: Gene Loye.(PERSONNELFILE)(Sentry Watch Inc.)(Occupation overview)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... "We were asked to install an alarm system at the home of Ty Boyd, a Charlotte TV personality. He had this half-million-dollar home, and we were putting in a $12,000 system. We sold it on the condition that all the wiring would go inside the wall, which, at the time [the late '60s], was ...
Tourist spending tightens.(Statewide)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Recession hit the state's tourism industry hard near the end of 2008, but it came too late to do more than slow the growth in spending. That's not the case this year. "Unless we see a dramatic turnaround soon, it's going to be down significantly," says Lynn Minges, the state's top tourism ...
Aquarium project aims to ease pier pressure.(Eastern)
Jun 01, 2009 ... If you want to lure fishermen to your pier, it helps to sell beer and undercut competitors. But that's not how the state plans to operate the one it's building in Nags Head. Prices will be at least as high as those of private operators, and it won't use beer as bait. "We want a place where ...
Eastern region.(Working capital)
Jun 01, 2009 ... EASTERN REGION Jobs: 999,237 YTD change: (22,696) Index: 104.6 Source: Employment ...
Union fails to bring home the bacon at another Smithfield packing plant.(Eastern)(United Food and Commercial Workers International Union)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Lightning didn't strike twice in North Carolina for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Workers at the Smithfield Packing Co. bacon plant in Wilson voted 338-181 against union representation. In December, the Washington, D.C.-based union won an election about 90 ...
Rocky Mount.(Eastern)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ROCKY MOUNT -- LS Tractor USA opened its U.S. headquarters and a distribution center here. The maker of high-end compact ...
Elizabeth city.(Eastern)
Jun 01, 2009 ... ELIZABETH CITY -- DRS Technologies, which overhauls and services C-130 airplanes for the Coast Guard, plans to add 100 jobs at ...
Laurinburg.(Eastern)
Jun 01, 2009 ... LAURINBURG -- Nature's Earth Products will open a factory here in August that will employ 98 to make pellets for wood-burning stoves ....
Tabor city.(Eastern)
Jun 01, 2009 ... TABOR CITY -- Hart & Cooley will close its factory, putting about 40 employees out of work by the end of the month. The Grand ...