Vol. 35 No. 12, December - December 2015
Index
- Preaching to the choir: outsourcing the telling of history at our well-managed state museum comes at a cost.
- McAdenville's yarn: spurred by an enthusiastic textile family, the Gaston County town ranks among the best places to fire up the Christmas spirit.
- Tax cut nirvana.
- Dining dynamo: Phil Friedman keeps cooking up growth strategies for restaurant groups.
- Blowing smoke: the home of Big Tobacco is on the front lines of the ever-changing electronic cigarette.
- Gassing up: Duke Energy hopes its latest catch can spur its growth.
- Christmas wrapped up.
- It pays to play: meetings, conventions and tourism create jobs, tax revenue and economic-development opportunities in North Carolina.
- Food for thought: John Day moved past restaurant stocks to build a hot investment firm.
- GE Hitachi.
- Going coastal.
- North Carolina State Ports Authority.
- Novant Health.
- Biotech bonanza.
- Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals.
- Fidelity Investments.
- Netsertive.
- Pendo.
- Quintiles.
- Red Hat.
- Ashley Furniture Industries.
- BB&T.
- Hornets Sports and Entertainment.
- Multi-Color.
- The Fresh Market.
- Wake's latest take.
- BlackArch Partners.
- Crest fallen.
- Driven Brands.
- Frye Regional Medical Center.
- Lifetouch National School Studios.
- NewDominion Bank.
- Snyder's-Lance.
- Duke Energy.
- Mountain BizWorks.
- Mountain mission.
- Warren Wilson College.
- Western Carolina University.
- North Carolina's best doctors.
- Throwaway success: Swannanoa company finds a niche in making wipes, helping revitalize one of North Carolina's storied textile plants.
- Going to the dogs.
- Paint by numbers.
- Clean-up crew.
- Hot air: an Amazon-financed wind farm--a record capital investment for eastern North Carolina--revs the debate over government's role in promoting alternatives to coal, gas and nuclear.
- Crystal palace: the world's largest retailer of old and new china saves Christmas, one long-lost pattern at a time.
- Tag team: businesses collaborate with the N.C. Community College System to build the skilled workforce that they need.