Vol. 37 No. 8, August 2017
Index
- Gem collecting: stepping off the interstates yields lots of can't-miss tar heel treasures.
- Road trip: largely unnoticed, republican lawmakers have prioritized higher spending on the state's transportation network.
- Divide and conquer: second-home sales are sliding, but elite retreats get creative to spark new interest.
- Be direct: a new kind of doctor's office eliminates the insurance middleman.
- Quick trigger: three veterans of shopping-center developer Edens are off to a fast start creating their own $1 billion urban retail portfolio.
- Moore time.
- Coming clean: the Amazon-whole foods deal puts Asheville-based Earth Fare in the crosshairs of the grocery wars.
- Big deal.
- Carolinas index.
- Gone fishing.
- Know your ABCS.
- Ups and downs.
- Powerful position: workforce training, research, policy and improving infrastructure make North Carolina the energy industry's leader.
- $17.9 billion.
- Automation nation.
- Residential building permit valuations (million).
- Taxable retail sales (billion).
- Tops in tech.
- Unemployment rates.
- East Carolina University.
- Japan-based FCC will add 28 jobs over three years.
- Rising tide.
- Select Bancorp.
- Stormberg Foods.
- Ventura Coach.
- Rural retreat.
- Cole's new role.
- Dova Pharmaceuticals.
- Four Oaks Fincorp.
- North Carolina Central University.
- Prescient.
- Real deal.
- Bell Partners.
- Catbird seat.
- HPFabrics.
- Morehead Memorial Hospital.
- The Fresh Market.
- Deal tracker.
- Larkin Regional Commerce Park.
- Red Ventures.
- Sitehands.
- Sutter Street Manufacturing.
- Spin a yarn.
- Act of defiance.
- Appalachian State University.
- Entegra Financial.
- Ethan Allen.
- Mission gets cross.
- Parsec Financial.
- Meeting expectations: communities roll out the red carpet for business gatherings, ensuring economic benefits continue past their adjournment.
- Alive and well: a recent study reveals strong growth in the state's life-sciences sector.
- Planting treasure: Burlington-based Mycorrhiza Biotech LLC revolutionizes truffle cultivation by cutting growing time.
- Getting stronger: biomaterial-maker curasan is expanding after its bone grafting foam was used in knee surgery.
- Creating possibilities: Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine manufactures organs and tissues from human cells in hopes of curing diseases and reducing waits for transplants.
- Brewing business: White Labs Inc. opens an Asheville location to supply East Coast craft beer brewers with yeast.
- Pickin' and grinnin': twenty-seven companies based in North Carolina each manage more than $1.5 billion in assets.
- Money in the banks: financial-services companies excel on Business North Carolina's annual list of Top 75 public companies.
- Infectious personality.
- Brine time: small town, company: Mt. Olive Pickle rises to the top.
- Sponsor comments.
- Twice as nice: Nash and Edgecombe counties are building on their agrarian past, growing manufacturing workforce and quality of life.
- Winter is coming: Winterville is changing, but barbecue keeps a town--and pork--pure.