Business North Carolina articles from May 2006

Business North Carolina archives from May 2006

Are you experienced?(journalism)
May 1, 2006... As managing editor of The Charlotte Observer, a job he held 13 years, Frank Barrows ran a newsroom 250 people strong. As BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA's new executive editor, he supervises three editors--four, once we fill a vacancy--and tries to...

Trend.(Statistical table)
May 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Latest Previous Previous % change month month year from last ...

Stock watch.(Statistical table)
May 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATED OMITTED] Highest price/earnings ratios Company P/E ratio 3/31/06 52-week (3) price range Pozen 253.0 $16.70...

The East, with the least, remains much the same.(ECONOMIC OUTLOOK)(Interview)
May 1, 2006... Eastern North Carolina has done little to improve its economy in the past five years, according to a report from the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, a Raleigh think tank. Just 12.9% of the region's work force is in...

Eastern.(aaiPharma Inc. emerged from bankruptcy protection)(Bozco plans to build factory )(Halifax Linen Service plans for expansion its linen supplies)
May 1, 2006... Fayetteville tries to capture Fort Bragg Fayetteville would become the state's fourth-largest city, passing Winston-Salem and Durham, under a plan that would allow it and neighboring Spring Lake to annex Fort Bragg. The municipalities would...

Working capital.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Jobs: 756,539 YTD change: (14,777) Index: 99.2 Jobs: 878,058 YTD change: 11,384 Index: 107.5 Jobs: 1,005,738 YTD change: 12,562 Index: 103.6 Jobs: 1,001,108 YTD change: (11,636) Index: 103.8...

Triangle.(Inspire Pharmaceuticals marketing rights from Boehringer Ingelheim International)(Verizon Communications recruiting plans for workers and contracts with ABN AMRO Bank N.V.)(Progress Energy sold Progress Telecom to Level 3 Communications)
May 1, 2006... Xerium is xerious about its direction Xerium Technologies moved its headquarters to Youngsville from Westborough, Mass., to consolidate management near its factories in the Southeast. Xerium, which makes equipment used in paper production...

Triad.(RF Micro Devices plans to spend and expand its Greensboro factory )(Krispy Kreme Doughnuts appoints Daryl G. Brewster)(VF Corp. promoted Eric C. Wiseman)
May 1, 2006... RF Micro aims to amp up employment RF Micro Devices, which makes power amplifiers for cell phones, plans to spend $80 million to expand its Greensboro factory and boost employment by about 300 to nearly 1,950 by 2009. If it reaches and...

Charlotte.(REGIONAL REPORT)
May 1, 2006... South Carolina site suits Duke nukes Charlotte-based Duke Energy picked three possible sites for nuclear plants to satisfy future demand for electricity. Its first choice is just over the state line in Cherokee County, S.C. Duke, which...

Western.(REGIONAL REPORT)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... Easley wants U.S. to leave trees alone North Carolina asked the federal government to protect 174,000 acres of national forest--152,000 acres of it in western counties--from loggers and road builders. Gov. Mike Easley told the U.S....

Kayak manufacturer: I'm back in the paddle again.(TAR HEEL TATTLER)
May 1, 2006... No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that in the sixth century B.C. Now, a High Point man who founded a kayak factory that left the Triad last...

State should sink money into water.(TAR HEEL TATTLER)
May 1, 2006... To Bill Holman, it's what you can't see at Falls Lake that shows why North Carolina needs a billion-dollar bond issue for its water systems. The director of the state's Clean Water Management Trust Fund is talking about the water supply for...

WHAT THEY'RE READING.(How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It)(The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century)(It's a Long Way from Penny Apples)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... J.M. Carstarphen, CEO, Pharr Yarns How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It by Arthur Herman Scottish immigrants were poor but more educated and...

Tattle tales.(Jerry Schleuning)
May 1, 2006... * The short happy life: Less than a year after Jerry Schleuning opened Hemingway's Downtown, he had to change the Greensboro bar's name. The novelist's heirs sued him, alleging trademark infringement. * Keeping tabs: Some wags known to...

These estimates are fairly conservative in the sense that, wherever possible.(Cartoon)
May 1, 2006... "These estimates are fairly conservative in the sense that, wherever possible, I've tried to err on the side of total lunacy." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Figuratively speaking.(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... * Percentage of full-time U.S. employees who work more than five days a week: 13. Seven days: 4. * Rank of United States, Portugal, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Netherlands as the markets with the highest percentage of consumers who...

Official gets boot for going country.(Rick Watson, chief executive officer of Northeastern North Carolina Regional Economic Development Commission)
May 1, 2006... Country singer Randy Parton has plans to turn Roanoke Rapids into an entertainment hub next year. Dolly's brother is working on a project near Interstate 95 that includes a theater, stores, hotels, a convention center and aquarium in a town...

Wachovia CFO's job is a Wurtz case scenario.(Tom Wurtz, chief financial officer)
May 1, 2006... Tom Wurtz insists he's "not a terribly exciting person." He's a number cruncher and since February has been Charlotte-based Wachovia Corp.'s chief financial officer, in charge of budgeting, financial reporting, treasury management, taxation and...

She finds smoother selling in America.(PEOPLE)
May 1, 2006... Lori Jarrett is an easy target. Her company, VirtuosoWorks Inc., was one of those software companies, moving to India in early 2003 for the cheap labor. On top of that, its signature software could take jobs from musicians. [ILLUSTRATION...

He has developed an edifice complex.(Empire Properties LLC's Greg Hatem )(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... From his sixth-floor office in the Masonic Temple Building, Greg Hatem has a front-row seat for downtown Raleigh's makeover. It's a change that Hatem, 46, helped start 11 years ago when his Empire Properties LLC bought and renovated an empty...

Summertime, and living is easier for tournament.(golf tournament at Greensboro)
May 1, 2006... Greensboro's professional golf tournament once again has survived the cut. But organizers are a long way from striding up the 18th fairway to tap in for a major victory. When the PGA Tour announced its schedule for the 2007 season--shrunk from...

The China trade: the state lands the headquarters of a company from a country many Tar Heel manufacturers love to hate.(FEATURE)
May 1, 2006... It all began in Beijing 22 years ago with 11 computer scientists working in a two-room house no bigger than a studio apartment. Now, Lenovo Group Ltd.'s new headquarters will be a suburban campus in Morrisville, a setting as foreign as it is...

Down Mexico way: illegal immigration is suppressing Tar Heel wages, but this boon to business also is creating a new underclass.(Cover story)
May 1, 2006... Blood spatters the man's face, his lips taut in death. The manager of the Mazatlan glances up from the Sanford restaurant's cash register at a customer looking at a faded photograph on the wall. "Emiliano Zapata," he says cheerily. The Mexican...

He's all talk: but that's creating a lot of action for radio's Mark Packer, who's syndicating his sports gabfest across the Carolinas.
May 1, 2006... It's 2:55 p.m. Mark Packer rises from a cluttered desk in a tiny office crammed with T-shirts, Cornbread Maxwell bobble-head dolls and sports-team coffee mugs, then hustles down a hallway to the studios of WFNZ-AM, a 5,000-watt radio station in...

The guiding lights: these towers beam a message to mariners navigating the state's treacherous coastline: look before you leak.
May 1, 2006... Despite the romantic sentiment we attach to them, lighthouses are, at their core, all business. That's what they were built to abet by bringing trade safely through or warning it away from our shoreline's dangerous shoals and shifting inlets....

Bricks & mortar.
May 1, 2006... To turn back the clock, the architects turned to light and limestone in designing the 32-story Interstate Tower. In a downtown dominated by glass-sheathed offices, the 1990 building marked a new generation of structures that would literally...