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Article: The spin meister: yarn maker Parkdale Mills' route to No. 2 on the list revolves around Duke Kimbrell's penchant for acquisition. (CEO of North Carolina's second largest private company)(Cover Story)
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- Business North Carolina
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- October 1, 1998
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Duke Kimbrell likes stuff. To be more specific, buying stuff. Sitting in the conference room off Garrison Boulevard in Gastonia, under the water tower boasting Parkdale Mills Inc.'s green-and-white logo, next to the plant bearing his name, he ponders his latest acquisition: a Citation VII twin-engine jet that's soon to arrive. The room is decked in we-win-awards regalia - a glass plaque declaring his induction in the Cotton Hall of Fame, the black-and-white shell for the American Textile Institute's 1997 innovation award, a glass statuette declaring Parkdale one of the North Carolina 100.
But more than any award, Kimbrell seems proudest of a foot-long model airplane, ...
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Article: Expansion spurt at Parkdale over unless there is yarn ...
Daily News Record;
February 11, 1988 ;
700+ words
... ... Textile Club here. However, Parkdale does have plans under consideration ... Currently, 50 percent of Parkdale's production is ringspun ... according to Blomquist. Parkdale Mills, based in Gastonia ... 13 mills-- all located in North Carolina-- and produces 3.5 million ...
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