Vol. 22 No. 10, October 2002
Index
- Moving and meditating.
- Trend.
- Business learns to deal with ethical dilemmas.
- Can Duke insulate itself from shocks to its sector?
- Commerce hopes to drive deals with top CEO golfers.
- Police probe a case of his taken identity.
- Abide by me.
- Base accusations.
- Data Bits.
- Dog fight.
- Honesty in government.
- Pirate prudery.
- Snakebit.
- Southern hospitality.
- Teed off.
- Was this job fare really necessary?
- Correction.
- Spending cuts could cost state millions.
- Barnes Food.
- El Paso Merchant Energy Group.
- Endeavor Pharmaceuticals.
- Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce.
- PCS Phosphate.
- Quality Housing.
- Robeson County.
- Capital Strategies, a public-relations and marketing firm, is acquiring Burney Design, a graphic-design company also based in Raleigh.
- Cree, a semiconductor maker, has been awarded government contracts worth as much as $26.5 million.
- First Citizens Bancshares has agreed to buy branches in Havelock and West Jefferson from Rocky Mount-based RBC Centura Bank.
- Midway Airlines.
- Moore County has the region's oldest median age and Orange, home of UNC Chapel Hill, the youngest.
- Pantry.
- Paradigm Genetics.
- Quintiles Transnational.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals.
- Triangle Pharmaceuticals.
- Trimeris.
- Vitesse Semiconductor.
- Alberdingk Boley.
- Allen Tate.
- BioEmerge Partners.
- Despite its large tobacco industry, the Triad ranks sixth in percentage of smokers among U.S. metro areas.
- First Bancorp.
- Granite Development.
- Koury Corp.
- Market America.
- Playtex Apparel.
- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings.
- RF Micro Devices.
- South African Breweries.
- TIMCO Aviation Services.
- Yadkin Valley Bank and Trust.
- AKsys USA.
- American Trans Air.
- Business executives here are raising $10 million to charter Cabarrus Bank & Trust.
- Cabarrus Economic Development.
- Corning.
- Goodrich.
- Mecklenburg County has more than triple the average per-capita retail sales of Anson.
- NorthEast Medical Center.
- Nucor.
- SPX.
- Wachovia has acquired Cameron M. Harris & Co., the largest privately owned insurance brokerage in North Carolina.
- World Sports Center.
- Environmental Protection Agency.
- Ghost Town in the Sky.
- Haywood.
- Nu-Woods.
- Seiren.
- The N.C. Supreme Court says two companies can keep 78 billboards standing in Asheville.
- US Airways.
- Pulp friction: when a foreign financier bought a paper plant in Pisgah Forest, he didn't figure how tough and stubborn mountaineers can be.
- Abandon ship: as Andersen founders in the Enron tempest, a firm new to the Carolinas races to the rescue of its practice here.
- Still ringing: while many telecoms are tanking, financial discipline moves BTI up the ranks of the North Carolina 100.
- Mr. Bojangles: in the fast-food business since high school, Joe Drury thinks success lies in letting his chicken and sides strut their stuff.
- Bound by law.
- The power of patents and their strategic use.
- Business divorces and who gets custody of intellectual property.
- Mind your own business: use an agreement.
- What every company should know about trademark dilution.
- Judging the sins of the past--the power of the bankruptcy court.
- Tax aspects of restricted stock and stock options.
- E-mail, voice mail and the Internet: employer liability for employees' acts.
- Escalating jury awards and the hard market for insurance coverage.
- The state of venture capital and what it means for you.
- Ways to reduce antitrust risk of sales promotions.
- Get ready for the EEOC's new hot button: backlash discrimination.
- Charlotte Institute will spur growth.
- He bets Chinese will get in swing of thing.
- His recipe for success calls for lots of sauces.
- Dealer gets strokes from different folks.
- Bricks & Mortar.