Vol. 24 No. 4, April 2004
Index
- Got the fry-grill blues.
- Trend.
- N.C.'s law is superior on subprime lending.
- Eastern.
- Rubbermaid commercial products.
- Working capital.
- Raleigh-based First Citizens BancShares is buying BTI Telecom's former headquarters from ITC DeltaCom, the Atlanta-based telecommunications company that bought BTI last year.
- Triangle.
- Despite its experience angling deals, Winston-Salem-based BB&T couldn't reel in FloridaFirst Bancorp.
- Triad.
- Charlotte.
- To reduce its presence in the wholesale energy market, Duke Energy merged wholesaler Duke Energy North America with Duke Energy International, which provided energy marketing, risk management and power-development services around the world, to form Duke Energy Americas.
- Powers Great American Midways.
- Western.
- Bank of Granite: one runs, no fits, no heirs.
- Board keeps them down on the pharm.
- Age at which majority of Americans feel adulthood begins: 26.
- Average cost per employee per year to companies.
- Bag lady: a Davidson College student's duffel bag aroused suspicions when it started wiggling on a charlotte-to-vermont bus.
- Gotta-wanna-needa-getta-hava: cajun quarterback Jake Delhomme, who led the Carolina Panthers to the super bowl, inked a deal to endorse Bojangles' spicy chicken.
- No vacancies: Camden County.
- Of the world's 100 largest economies, the number that are nation-states: 47.
- Paging hugh jass: time warner cable's 24-hour news station in raleigh must have gone snow-blind during the late-February snow-storm.
- Pay for rain: Charlotte officials blamed five years of having to raise water rates on the drought.
- Percentage of American households that are "affluent"--earn $75,000 or more a year: 25.
- Percentage of employees who say lack of opportunity played a big part in deciding to leave their jobs: 37.
- Percentage of employers who say they've had an office romance: 58.
- Percentage of U.S. workers who say they would react favorably if their workplaces adopted stricter dress codes: 69.
- Percentage of U.S. workers.
- School work: the Salisbury-Rowan Economic Development Commission is concerned that a future tenant of Summit Corporate Center could hamper its ability to market the industrial park.
- Sell away: The N.C. commerce department ranked concord mills as the state's top tourist destination last year.
- Skullduggery: an appalachian state anthropology professor saw a deal on eBay she had to refuse--and report.
- Surf 'n' turf.
- Study reinforces military's impact.
- Impatient investors say bank must grow or bye.
- Tar heel stock watch.
- Groups plan to play hardball with pols.
- Cash cowed: perhaps the state's most retail-heavy town, tiny Pineville experiences sticker shock at the price it's having to pay.
- The Merck deal raises questions about where the state is going with incentives.
- Wood that they could: thinning their holdings, timber companies clear the way for Wall Street to find a slow-growth stock.
- Cook's tour: Mark Freedman keeps things stirred up all day at the Greensboro restaurant that bears his name.
- Executive travel guide: where are you going?
- The Triad: new focus is on tech, biotech.
- All his work for NFL teams are inside jobs.
- Nurse's business is feeling no pain.
- He deals with plight of the living dread.
- Her goods have gone to the dogs.
- Bricks & mortar.