North Carolina's top 100 private companies.

• Author: Thornton, Grant
• Position: Company rankings

'13 '12 company Headquarters CEO Employees rank rank $500 MILLION IR MORE IN REVENUE (later fiscal year) 1 1 Belk Inc. Charlotte Tim Belk 23,000 2 2 General Parts Raleigh 0. Temple 12,000 International Sloan III Inc. 3 3 SAS Inc. Cary James 13,000 Goodnight 4 4 VPS Convenience Wilmington Jeff Turpin 3,380 Store Group LLC 5 5 New NGC Inc. Charlotte Thomas C. 2,000 (1) Nelson 6 6 Lord Corp. Cary Ed Auslander 2,959 7 22 Harvey Kinston John McNairy 873 Enterprises Inc. 8 -- ACN Inc. Concord Chip Barker 1,200 9 11 S&D Coffee Inc. Concord Ron Hinson 1,005 10 13 Industrial Belmont Charles A. 1,460 Distribution Lingenfelter Group Inc. 11 10 Renfro Corp. Mount Airy Bud Kilby 5,000 12 8 New Breed High Point Louis DeJoy 7,000 Logistics Inc. 13 9 Sampson-Bladen Clinton Rogers H. 637 Oil Co. Clark 14 16 AmWINS Group Charlotte M. Steven 2,579 Inc. DeCarlo $250 MILLION TO $499 MILLION 15 15 Golden Corral Raleigh Ted Fowler 7,000 Corp. 16 12 Barnhill Tarboro Robert E. 1,050 Contracting Co. Barnhill Jr. 17 23 Transportation Hickory Chris Baltz 179 Insight LLC 18 19 Concord Raleigh Mark G. 4,013 Hospitality Laport Enterprises Co. 19 18 Southco Goldsboro Sherwin 192 Distributing Herring Co. 20 25 Rodgers Builders Charlotte Patricia A. 277 Inc. Rodgers 21 14 Pharr Yarns LLC McAdenville J.M. 1,550 Carstarphen 22 29 Pate Dawson Co. Goldsboro Malcolm R. 478 Sullivan Jr. 23 21 Kimley-Horn and Cary John Atz 1,567 Associates Inc. 24 28 Gregory Poole Raleigh J. Gregory 856 Equipment Co. Poole III 25 33 Carolina Tractor Charlotte Ed Weisiger 1,037 & Equipment Co. Jr. 26 17 Warren Oil Co. Dunn W.I.Warren 405 27 24 Atlantic Wilmington Russell M. 649 Corporation of Carter Wilmington Inc. 28 31 BHI Exchange Charlotte Randy Kibler 6,200 Inc. 29 27 Steel Fab Inc. Charlotte Ronald G. 780 Sherrill 30 26 Market America Greensboro James 748 Worldwide Inc. Ridinger 31 20 Global Knowledge Cary Brian Branson 1,320 Training LLC 32 34 Clancy & Theys Raleigh Tim Clancy 300 Construction Co. 33 32 Snider Tire Greensboro John Snider 775 Inc. $250 MILLION TO $499 MILLION 34 40 Epes Carriers Greensboro Al Bodford 1,376 Inc. 35 -- Europa Sports Charlotte Eric Hillman 441 Products Inc. 36 39 Captive-Aire Robert L. 730 Systems Inc. Luddy Raleigh $150 MILLION TO $249 MILLION 37 38 Crowder Charlotte Otis Crowder 1,007 Construction Co. 38 37 BJT Inc.2 Raleigh William 652 Kennedy 39 47 New Apple Inc.; Raleigh Michael D. 6,100 Olander 40 42 Cummins Atlantic Pineville Michael Grace 453 LLC 41 64 JF Acquisiton Raleigh Sterling R. 400 LLC (4) Baker II 42 41 Carolina Charlotte Larry 192 Wholesale Group Huneycutt Inc. 43 52 Salem Holding...