Vol. 42 No. 11, November 2022

Index

• COME ON DOWN.
• POWER PLAYER: An industrial giant makes North Carolina pivotal in the gas-to-electric switch.
• MANAGING THROUGH INFLATIONARY TIMES: Local PNC leader shares how digital innovations and other strategies are helping businesses manage through inflation.
• MONEY BALL.
• GOLF CAN BE FUN--REALLY: The sport doesn't have to be a good walk spoiled, an innovative golf pro is proving with Operation 36.
• SPARRING OVER PLASTIC: Efforts to ban takeout containers and other chemical-based packaging divides environmentalists and retailers.
• BARRELING AHEAD: North Carolina's beer business continues its surge.
• SALAD DAYS: High-tech, efficient farming blossoms in downtown Raleigh.
• Ad Watch: Bankers back Budd.
• Board OKs $100 million for Raleigh-area toll road.
• Child care industry calls for help.
• Mark Robinson creates new energy committee.
• COOLEST PRODUCTS.
• PINK ENERGY COLLAPSE.
• 2022 Presidents Cup.
• ECU.
• Fayetteville-Cumberland Regional Entrepreneur and Business Hub.
• flyExclusive.
• Insite Properties.
• Live Oak Bank.
• Metronet.
• RXO.
• So-Pak-Co, a Mullins, S.C.-based food processor, will invest $85 million in a processing center and add 440 new jobs here.
• Wilmington ranked 10th in Conde Nast Traveler magazine's annual reader's choice awards for the best U.S. cities.
• A crochet business based here was featured on CNBC's Shark Tank show last month.
• Arbiom.
• Atrium Health's Wake Forest Baptist.
• Chimerix.
• Garner Foods opened a 160,000-square-foot warehouse here.
• Gilbarco Veeder-Root Retail Solutions.
• Inmar Intelligence.
• JPMorgan Chase.
• L. Ebony Boulware.
• Thermo Fisher.
• Toyota will give $1 million to support science, math and technology education.
• Virginia-based Clachan Properties acquired the former Pilot Life Insurance headquarters buildings.
• CBRE Investment Management.
• N.C. Mutual Insurance.
• SEPI Engineering & Construction.
• Tavros Therapeutics.
• Amazon.
• AppalCart.
• Emtelle.
• Ground was broken on the $80 million Blue Ridge Commerce Center.
• Nancy Cable.
• Spark Robotic.
• Stubbs Perdue.
• Western Carolina University.
• SHOWCASING THRIVING MID-SIZED BUSINESSES.
• First Carolina Bank.
• DMA INDUSTRIES CONTINUES TO GROW EXPONENTIALLY DESPITE CHALLENGES.
• Macro INTEGRATION SERVICES.
• SUCCESS THROUGH SERVICE.
• WINNERS.
• BUY | SELL | BUILD | INVEST.
• Mid-Market Fast 40.
• BUILDING INC.
• GIMME SHELTER: HOW NORTH CAROLINA IS COMBATING THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING SHORTAGE.
• Inside Straight: As slot machines rattle 24/7, details emerge on key influences who cleared the way for North Carolina's new casino.
• CYBERSECURITY: THE NEW BABY.
• THE POWER OF THE NEW YORK CONVENTION: WHY NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESSES SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.
• REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT IN THE FACE OF RURAL MIGRATION.
• GROWTH SPURT: Catawba gets a manufacturing training center, Appalachian State University campus and revitalized downtowns.
• POWER UP: A creative family builds a military contractor in Murphy.