Business North Carolina articles from February 2008

Business North Carolina archives from February 2008

The new order.(UPFRONT)(Editorial)
February 1, 2008... This, our annual Business Handbook issue, is when we take measure of the Tar Heel economy, sizing up where it has been, trying to figure out where it's going. As such, it's a magazine full of charts, graphs, lists and rankings. To produce them,...

Trend.(Statistical table)
February 1, 2008... [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Latest Previous Previous % change from month month year last year ...

Stock watch.(Statistical table)
February 1, 2008... SPOTLIGHT Waste Industries USA shares increased 27% in three months, driven by an agreement to take the company private. [GRAPHIC OMITTED] [GRAPHIC OMITTED] HIGHEST PRICE/EARNINGS RATIOS ...

Econmic outlook.(Interview)
February 1, 2008... Tony Copeland left the N.C. Department of Commerce in December after four years as assistant secretary for business development and trade. He's now president of the international division of Raleigh-based Longistics Transportation Inc. At...

What's working now: in providing jobs for North Carolinians, it's not what used to. And what works today might not tomorrow.(Company overview)
February 1, 2008... Up the hill from God's Acre, biotechnology could be Jim Crawford's salvation. In a laboratory a few blocks from Old Salem's cemetery, where Moravians sleep--some since the 1700s--beneath rows of marble slabs, he works in the sterile air of...

Left behind: there's no going back, but some places can't get ahead in the face of forces that took away what they once had.(FEATURE)
February 1, 2008... Ken Burnette knows what's in the long, narrow box the second he sees it leaning against a wall at East Coast Plywood Co. in Rocky Mount. "My golf club came!" he yells to his only employee, who's sweeping sawdust and dirt off stacks of plywood....

When profit is not the incentive: for many reasons, nonprofit companies have become major players and employers in the Tar Heel economy.(FEATURE)
February 1, 2008... It's not yet 3, but the late-December day is fading as men and women climb out of cars onto the sloped concrete of a parking deck near downtown Charlotte. The Presbyterian Hospital lot becomes a sea of jewel-colored scrubs as nurses, doctors,...

Heavy industry: Volvo bulks up the state's manufacturing sector by making construction equipment in the mountains.(PICTURE THIS)
February 1, 2008... At the Volvo Construction Equipment factory in Asheville, they do things big. As in a just-expanded 400,000-square-foot factory. As in building excavators 36 feet long and nearly 12 feet wide that weigh up to 87,540 pounds and cost nearly...

Largest cities.(BY THE NUMBERS)
February 1, 2008... CHANGE INTERNAL 2006 2000 SINCE GAIN SINCE CITY POPULATION POPULATION 2000 2000 1 Charlotte 651,562 540,167 20.6%...

Counties.(BY THE NUMBERS)(Statistical table)
February 1, 2008... POPULATION CIVILIAN Avg. LABOR annual Density per Change from FORCE 2006 change...

West.(BY THE NUMBERS)(Statistical table)
February 1, 2008... POPULATION (000s) COUNTY 1986 1996 2006 Alleghany 9.5 10.0 11.0 Ashe 22.4 23.6 25.8 Avery 14.7 15.5 18.2 Buncombe 168.4 196.3 221.3...

Charlotte.(BY THE NUMBERS)(Statistical table)
February 1, 2008... POPULATION (000s) COUNTY 1986 1996 2006 Alexander 26.6 30.9 36.3 Anson 24.6 24.6 25.4 Cabarrus 93.1 115.7 157.2 Catawba 113.2 131.4 151.1...

Triad.(BY THE NUMBERS)
February 1, 2008... POPULATION (000s) COUNTY 1986 1996 2006 Alamance 103.5 120.8 139.8 Caswell 21.5 22.0 23.5 Davidson 121.2 140.3 155.3 Davie 26.8 31.4 39.8...

Triangle.(BY THE NUMBERS)(Statistical table)
February 1, 2008... POPULATION (000s) COUNTY 1986 1996 2006 Chatham 36.6 45.4 57.7 Durham 168.5 205.2 246.8 Franklin 34.1 43.3 55.3 Granville 36.9 43.3 53.8...

Southeast.(BY THE NUMBERS)(Statistical table)
February 1, 2008... POPULATION (000s) COUNTY 1986 1996 2006 Bladen 29.4 30.7 32.9 Brunswick 46.8 63.9 95.0 Columbus 50.5 53.0 54.7 Cumberland 262.0 299.4 306.5...

East.(BY THE NUMBERS)(Statistical table)
February 1, 2008... POPULATION (000s) COUNTY 1986 1996 2006 Carteret 49.7 57.8 63.6 Craven 79.8 88.0 95.6 Duplin 40.3 45.8 52.7 Edgecombe 58.2 57.1 52.6...

Northeast.(BY THE NUMBERS)(Statistical table)
February 1, 2008... POPULATION (000s) COUNTY 1986 1996 2006 Beaufort 42.0 43.6 46.3 Bertie 20.8 20.4 19.4 Camden 5.6 6.4 9.3 Chowan 13.2 14.4 14.7...