Business North Carolina back issues from July 2008:
His heart is in it.(UPFRONT)
Jul 01, 2008; ... In one of the three straight years that Ed Martin won the Alliance of Area Business Publications gold medal for best body of work by a magazine reporter, the judges wrote: "His biggest talent? Telling a story. The concept sounds simple, but all writers--and especially business writers-seem ...
We asked ...: In last month's up front column, publisher Ben Kinney asked readers to share their thoughts about the magazine.(READERSWRITE)(Column)
Jul 01, 2008 ... As a small (nine employees) business, we feel no one, especially government, listens to us. We have no clout, but collectively we do matter. I have read BNC for several years, and I feel that you are talking to me as much as to Bank of America or Duke Energy. If you could do more, it would ...
Diverse view.(READERSWRITE)
Jul 01, 2008; ... I noticed that all editorial photos and features in the June issue were about white men. Our state is way more diverse than that. Your Law Journal featured some white women writers, but no women, not one, in any ...
Let market do it.(READERSWRITE)
Jul 01, 2008; ... One particular line in the April Fine Print column stuck in my mind: "Don't seek to create something the market can create more quickly and cheaply." I can only dream that this line would be over the entrance to every ...
Correction.(Correction notice)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Correction: Lexington Area Chamber of Commerce President Radford Thomas's first name was misspelled in the May issue's cover story. Send ...
Nctrend.(Statistical table)
Jul 01, 2008 ... <Pre> Latest Previous Previous % change from last yearmonthmonthyear EMPLOYMENT Employed4,306.6 4,306.8 4,310.5(0.1) (000s) Civilian labor 4,540.7 4,533.1 4,512.1...
Business north carolina index.(>STOCKWATCH)(Statistical table)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [GRAPHIC OMITTED] <Pre> HIGHEST PRICE/EARNINGS RATIOS CompanyP/E ratio (3) 5/30/08 price 52-Week range Hatteras Financial 177.7 $26.65 na RF Micro ...
Economic outlook.
Jul 01, 2008; ... The U.S. economy has softened, but there's no hard evidence it's in recession--defined by many economists as at least two straight quarters of decline in real gross domestic product. More than 50% of economists in a recent poll say it is or will be by the end of the year. Three-quarters of ...
PCS wants to move into some new digs.(Eastern)
Jul 01, 2008 ... PCS Phosphate's clock is ticking, but only time will tell if the countdown by one of Eastern North Carolina's largest employers is cause for alarm. Ross Smith, environmental manager of PCS Phosphate, says the company needs federal permission--soon--to mine about 4,000 acres of wetlands ...
Working Capital.(Eastern)
Jul 01, 2008 ... EASTERN REGION Jobs: 1,051,264 YTD change: (5,631) Index: 110.0 Source: Employment Security Commission, ...
Kinston gets in the spirit plus plucks a poultry plant.(Eastern)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The specter of a sluggish national economy might not seem as scary as before in Kinston. Not only did civic leaders exorcise some demons recently by luring airplane-parts maker Spirit AeroSystems--and more than 1,000 jobs -- to the much-ma-ligned Global TransPark, they successfully wooed ...
Roanoke Rapids.(Eastern)(Gilmore Entertainment Group)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... ROANOKE RAPIDS -- The city agreed to pay Gilmore Entertainment Group $500,000 a year to operate Roanoke Rapids Theatre, but the two sides were still ironing out details. The city ...
New Bern.(Eastern)
Jul 01, 2008 ... NEW BERN -- Craven County commissioners asked the General Assembly to change the name of Craven County ...
Castle Hayne.(Eastern)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CASTLE HAYNE -- Titan America plans to build a $469 million factory that would employ about 160 within three years. Average pay will be $72,068 a year; the New ...
Fayetteville.(Eastern)
Jul 01, 2008 ... FAYETTEVILLE -- Cape Fear Valley Medical Center cut 24 jobs as part of the health system's restructuring. It says it has lost money the ...
Rocky Mount.(Eastern)
Jul 01, 2008 ... ROCKY MOUNT -- Volkswagen eliminated Nash County as a site of an assembly plant that will employ about ...
Morehead City.(Eastern)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MOREHEAD CITY -- The state Coastal Resources Commission denied requests from about 150 home and business owners who want to ...
Maple.(Eastern)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MAPLE -- Currituck County will spend more than $2.5 million to buy about 63 acres adjacent to Currituck ...
Bull City gores rival in ranking.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... For years, Durham has played Raleigh's little brother, tagging along and getting less attention. It's Raleigh-Durham International Airport, not the other way around. Until a few years ago, they were part of the same metropolitan statistical area, in which Raleigh, of course, got top ...
Power play.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Normally, when demand for a product or service goes down, prices do, too. Not so at the RBC Center in Raleigh. Though attendance dropped 4% last season and the Carolina Hurricanes played more like tropical depressions--missing the playoffs for the second straight year--most of the pro ...
Working Capital.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... TRIANGLE REGION Jobs: 924,219 YTD: (2,704) Index: 112.1 Source: Employment Security Commission, ...
Raleigh.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... RALEIGH -- Waste Industries USA went private after a $544 million management-led buyout. The trash hauler says it wants to escape the ...
Chapel Hill.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CHAPEL HILL -- Fayetteville native Holden Thorp becomes chancellor of UNC Chapel Hill this month. Thorp, 43, was a chemistry professor and dean ...
Morrisville.(Triangle)(ParagonDx get approval from fda)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MORRISVILLE -- ParagonDx won permission from the federal Food and Drug Administration to sell its first product--a genetic test that can identify heart-attack and stroke patients ...
Cary.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CARY -- Software developer Epic Games bought Chair Entertainment Group, a Provo, ...
Cary.(Triangle)(Cornerstone BioPharma Holdings acquire Boston-based Critical Therapeutics )(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CARY -- Cornerstone BioPharma Holdings, which develops and sells treatments for respiratory diseases, agreed to buy Boston-based Critical Therapeutics for about $63 million. The ...
Morrisville.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MORRISVILLE -- Salix Pharmaceuticals failed to win federal approval for its balsalazide tablet, a stronger version of its ...
Durham.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... DURHAM -- Aldagen filed plans for an initial public offering of stock that it hopes will raise ...
Research triangle park.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Joan Siefert Rose, 51, will take over in August as president of the council for Entrepreneurial ...
Cary.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CARY -- SAS Institute cut more than a dozen positions from its education division as the software maker tries to reorganize the ...
Cary.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CARY -- Connexion Technologies laid off about 100 of its 550 employees. About 40 were in North Carolina, where it employed more than ...
Morrisville.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MORRISVILLE -- Airlines at Raleigh-Durham International Airport eliminated three daily outbound flights ...
Durham.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... DURHAM -- Proventys raised $5.7 million in venture capital. It's working on diagnostic software to ...
Morrisville.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MORRISVILLE -- Sun Tech Medical opened a factory that employs 26 in Shenzhen, ...
Morrisville.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MORRISVILLE -- eTix, which makes software for online ticket sales, raised $1 million in venture capital. The company says ...
Morrisville.(Triangle)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MORRISVILLE -- New York-based AEA Investors bought Implus Footcare, which makes socks, shoelaces and other products, ...
Cuts dye Unifi's quarter black.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Earlier this year, Greensboro-based yarn maker Unifi managed its first profitable quarter since 2003. It did so partly by consolidating production, closing factories and slashing jobs in North Carolina and other states The profit wasn't much--just $12,000 -- but compared with a $13.2 ...
What vow is worth now.(Triad)(Wachovia merged with First Union)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Seven years ago, Ken Thompson promised Winston-Salem 3,000 jobs. He did it to generate support for Charlotte based First Union's takeover of Twin City pillar Wachovia, and it worked. Wachovia merged with First Union, even surrendering its name. Winston-Salem shed about 1,300 jobs when the ...
Working capital.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... TRIAD REGION Jobs: 764,964 YTD change: 7 Index: 100.1 Source: Employment Security Commission, ...
Cooleemee.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... COOLEEMEE -- Jockey International Plans to close its knitting mill by the second quarter of 2009. About 210 people will lose jobs. The ...
Winston-Salem.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... WINSTON-SALEM -- Starting in 2009, Wake Forest University will no longer require SAT or ACT test scores for admission. School leaders say they aren't ...
Winston-Salem.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... WINSTON-SALEM -- The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference agreed to hold its men's and women's basketball tournaments here for three years, ...
Lexington.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... LEXINGTON -- SunEdison of Beltsville, Md., plans to harvest solar energy by 2011 on 100 to 200 acres in Davidson ...
Greensboro.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... GREENSBORO -- Executives at Piedmont Triad International Airport expect about $27.6 million in revenue during the fiscal year that begins this ...
High point.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... HIGH POINT -- CBL & Associates Properties wants to sell Oak Hollow Mall for $40 million. The Chattanooga, Tenn.-based company ...
Winston-Salem.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... WINSTON-SALEM -- Targacept, which was spun off from cigarette maker Reynolds American in 2000, received $500,000 from drug maker ...
Greensboro.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... GREENSBORO -- Canplast will add 33 jobs at its factory here by the end of the year, bringing employment to ...
Winston-Salem.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... WINSTON-SALEM -- Software maker Silk Road Technology secured $54 million in venture capital. The round was led by Menlo Park, Calif.-based Foundation Capital. Silk ...
Walnut Cove.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... WALNUT COVE -- Gastonia-based Parkdale America plans to spend at least $30 million on new equipment to ...
Mocksville.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... MOCKSVILLE -- Renegade Holdings, parent of cigarette maker Alternative Brands, plans to add 25 jobs at its factory here by September ...
High point.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... HIGH POINT -- LifeStyle Enterprises, which imports case goods and leather upholstery from Asia, scuttled plans to expand ...
Greensboro.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... GREENSBORO -- NewBridge Bancorp plans to buy Capital Bank's branch here for an undisclosed price. When the deal closes in the third ...
Greensboro.(Triad)
Jul 01, 2008 ... GREENSBORO -- The News & Record wants to sell 3.6 acres adjacent to its offices for $5.7 million. That includes a 280-space parking lot and ...
Thompson is made to take one for the team.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... If your mother says she loves you, aspiring journalists are often told, don't take her word for it. Check it out. Investors would do well to treat announcements from Charlotte-based Wachovia Corp. with similar skepticism. In April, the bank cut its dividend by 41 %--after executives ...
Working capital.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE REGION Jobs: 1,044,856 YTD change: (2,007) Index: 108.6 Source: Employment Security ...
The Charlotte region.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The Charlotte region--including four counties in South Carolina--has experienced little or no year-over-year ...
Lincolnton.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... LINCOLNTON -- Crate & Barrel will add 220 jobs at its distribution center during the next five years. The Northbrook, III.-based retail ...
Concord.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CONCORD -- Marcus Smith, 35, was named general manager of Lowe's Motor Speedway and chief operating officer of Speedway Motor-sports, which ...
Charlotte.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE -- Wachovia agreed to sponsor its namesake PGA Tour event through 2014. Terms ...
Charlotte.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE -- Doctors who work for Carolinas HealthCare System may no longer give patients ...
Kannapolis.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... KANNAPOLIS -- N.C. State University hired University of Illinois scientist Mary Ann Lila, 52, to lead its efforts at the North ...
Charlotte.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE -- Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith bought nearly half of Velocity Sports Performance. It provides ...
Statesville.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... STATESVILLE -- New York-based Kooks Custom Headers plans to move its headquarters and ...
Charlotte.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE -- The state Utilities Commission rejected Duke Energy's request to add a special drought fee to customers' bills, saying droughtrelated costs are a normal business risk. Duke wanted to recoup $20 ...
Shelby.(Charlotte)
Jul 01, 2008 ... SHELBY -- Philips Lighting of Somerset, N.J., plans to add at least 50 jobs here, nearly doubling employment, ...