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• Position: North Carolina's biggest employers

From fast-food chains to furniture manufacturers, here's how the state's largest employers measure up.

This is the sixth year BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA has ranked the state's 100-largest employers, and the first to see Wal-Mart in the No. 2 slot. That says a lot about the growth of retail giants in the state - Sara Lee sat atop the first-ever list while the Bentonville, Ark.-based discounter ranked 16th. There's still more than a handful of [TABULAR DATA OMITTED] textile makers on the list, but...