Vol. 34 No. 10, October - October 2014
Index
- 2014 state of small business: letter from the Executive Director.
- Cultivating efficiency: keeping an eye on the bottom line helps agribusiness firm grow.
- Financing.
- Human resources/workforce.
- Market expansion.
- Marketing.
- N.C. Small Business and Technology Development Center.
- N.C. Small Business Center Network.
- Practicing what they preach: Asheville marketing firm believes small businesses need to couple traditional marketing approaches with social media.
- Primed for contracting success: family-owned company that paints water towers masters the art of working with government agencies.
- Public/private nonprofits.
- Selling and starting over.
- State agencies.
- Total quality of life: high-tech firm is high-touch when dealing with employees.
- Working with the government.
- That's the breaks: the legislature pushes back on economic incentives.
- Out of the past.
- This isn't that place.
- Casino stakes.
- Poll ax: putin, ISIS and kids on the border sharpen security as a cutting-edge issue in an election that jobs, Obamacare and schools were supposed to shape.
- Cutting in the middleman: an organic-farming advocate helps farmers quit tobacco.
- Is cash really king? Reports of corporate cash hoarding may be greatly exaggerated.
- Recipe for recovery: a robust new restaurant scene has turned downtrodden downtown Kinston into a dining destination.
- Rewriting history: to prop up profit, a bank with a celebrated past turns to a leader with a firm grasp on the future.
- Vital signs.
- Making things happen: manufacturers shape their futures through technology and collaboration.
- Brokers cast their bids: real-estate agents align with acclaimed auction houses to move luxury lots.
- Brunswick wants a dowry.
- Pembroke--Dominion Resources.
- Wagram--Cascades Tissue Group.
- Wilmington--Pharmaceutical Product Development.
- Wilson--Wilson Medical Center.
- A sweet pill to swallow.
- Cary--Ply Gem Holdings.
- New Hill--Performance Fibers.
- Raleigh--Gov. Pat McCrory.
- Raleigh--Highwoods Properties.
- Research Triangle Park--North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
- Siler City--Carolina Premium Foods.
- One head might be better than two.
- Browns Summit--MWI Veterinary Supply.
- Burlington--CS Carolina.
- Mount Airy--Insteel Wire Products.
- Winston-Salem--BB&T.
- Winston-Salem--United Furniture Industries.
- BofA gets what it pays for.
- Charlotte--Premier.
- Bank of America.
- Charlotte--Eaton.
- Charlotte--Electrolux.
- Charlotte--Sonic Automotive.
- Charlotte--Wells Fargo.
- Indian Trail--Harris Teeter.
- A recovery and reinvestment act.
- Asheville--Asheville Regional Airport.
- Brevard--New Excelsior.
- Evergreen Packaging.
- Fletcher--Appalachian Regional Commission.
- Parts & parcels.
- Bank of America.
- Downsizing.
- Hard times.
- In the name of the father.
- Staying busy.
- The state we're in.
- The 100 at 30 S&D coffee and the state's biggest private companies still pack a jolt.
- Rise and fall of Renegade: taking on big tobacco and the taxman, Calvin Phelps saw the business he built go up in smoke.