Vol. 34 No. 9, September - September 2014
Index
- Little by little: rural areas produced many of the visionaries who built North Carolina. Now small towns and cities struggle to stay relevant.
- They come, they go.
- Server and protect: Dave Jones makes millions for his private-equity investors by safeguarding data.
- Better the Blue Devil you know: Duke University faculty rule the St. Louis Fed's ranking of Tar Heel economic research.
- Image conscious: Hickory hopes a new bond package will repair its reputation as one of the nation's most-depressed metros.
- Finding fault with SciQuest: the market once again sinks its shares, but this time it's due to a sales slip rather than a free fall.
- Vital signs.
- Great ain't good enough: tourism is thriving, so why is the state changing the way it goes after guests?
- Belhaven--Vidant Health.
- Fayetteville--Cape Fear Valley Health.
- Fayetteville--Hanesbrands.
- Generating less debt.
- Goldsboro--AAR Aircraft Services.
- Wilson--Bridgestone Americas.
- A road well traveled.
- Dunn--New Century Bancorp.
- Durham--bioMerieux.
- Oxford--Ideal Fastener.
- Raleigh--Merz North America.
- High point--Greenwich, Conn.-based XPO Logistics will acquire New Breed Holding for $615 million.
- Mebane--General Electric.
- Mocksville--Bank of the Carolinas.
- Reidsville--Debbie Green was named president of 110-bed Annie Penn Hospital as well as 80-bed Cone Behavioral Health Hospital in Greensboro, where she had been interim president more than a year.
- Reynolds redress is likely to go up in smoke.
- Winston-Salem--The N.C. Department of Insurance ordered Chicago-based Old Republic International, parent of Republic Mortgage Insurance, to pay $125 million to settle claims stemming from the housing crash.
- Walking on sealed air.
- Avoiding paper cuts.
- Pie in the sky: North Carolina wants to be first in unmanned flight, but it's already falling behind in this air-space race.
- This is the place: Robeson is the state's poorest, most violent county, battered by economic forces that stole its chance to escape that fate.
- An udder world: Ecuadorean investors team up with Tar Heel cattlemen to milk more profit from new brands of dairy products.