Vol. 31 Nbr. 12, December 2011

Index

• A word from our platinum sponsor.
• Back home, former Army medic still saves lives.
• Business connections.
• Carolinas' Nuclear Cluster.
• Charlotte toolmaker tinkers in the spotlight.
• Community colleges: intern programs help train future workers.
• Dirty job sustains Durham-based company.
• Economic impact: nuclear packs $2.3 billion punch.
• Encompass Machines.
• Fast growers won't stop for slow economy.
• Higher ed's challenge: schools luring students into stem programs.
• iContact proves no beginning is too small.
• North Carolina MID market fast 40.
• Nuclear energy and the Carolinas: citizens say plant is a good, safe neighbor.
• Nuclear energy and the Carolinas: clean, dependable power key to future.
• Nuclear energy and the Carolinas: safety comes first in operating power plants.
• Nuclear enjoys strong public support.
• Nuclear plant construction: firm offers unique excavation technique.
• Nuclear's future: small reactors could make big impact.
• Nucular cluster 2011.
• Playing it safe pays off for one Tar Heel bank.
• RCS Nuclear.
• Ready to hire: in the nuclear industry - careers are available.
• Roofer turns shingles and sunshine into revenue.
• Software company helps find smoking guns.
• Supply and demand: industry strives to replace aging work force: as the anticipated date nears for hiring construction workers to build two proposed nuclear reactors in South Carolina, technical colleges and industry partners are working together to help train the next-generation construction work force.
• Sushi rolls in the dough for local favorite.
• Tetra Tech Inc.
• The Carolinas Nuclear Cluster: how it all began.
• The GEL Group Inc.
• The nuclear supply chain: are there possibilities to re-shore?
• Tiger Controls.
• Tindall Corp.
• Welcome to energized!
• Westinghouse Electric Company: Columbia nuclear plant still sets records: the U-235 isotope used in weapons warheads is concentrated higher than 50%. But it is blended down to less than 5% for nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes.
• Dear departed.
• Bye-bye, BofA?
• Correction.
• Dog gone.
• Employment.
• Taxable retail sales (1).
• NCTrend.
• Business North Carolina Index.
• Highest price/earnings ratios.
• Spotlight.
• Top 10 Large-cap stocks.
• Occupy your mind.
• File and rank.
• The GOP wants to stay state workers' pay.
• 57%.
• 80%.
• From fry to fillets ready for the fry pan.
• The blame game.
• Castle Hayne.
• Fayetteville.
• Greenville.
• Kinston.
• Wilmington.
• $44.5 million.
• 'When I grew up, tobacco was something you smoked or chewed or dipped.'.
• Not only.
• Chapel Hill.
• Chapel hill.
• Morrisville.
• Raleigh.
• Raleigh.
• Research triangle park.
• Research triangle park.
• Research triangle park.
• Research triangle park.
• 'We've been growing throughout the whole downturn.'.
• 75,859.
• Targacept's stock tanks after its latest pill pops.
• Asheboro.
• Greensboro.
• Troy.
• Troy.
• Winston-Salem.
• Winston-Salem.
• Winston-Salem.
• $180 million.
• $24 million.
• 'Get the heck out of that bank.'.
• Charlotte.
• Charlotte.
• Charlotte.
• Gastonia.
• Matthews.
• Mooresville.
• Mooresville.
• 13.
• The feeling is not mutual when the bank takes stock of itself.
• Asheville.
• Asheville.
• Asheville.
• Asheville.
• Rutherfordton.
• Sticking to his knitting: disasters were derailleurs that didn't derail our Small Business of the Year.
• Down in the trenches.
• Rhino extends its range.