2011-10

DURHAM — Metabolon, which tests medicines and other products for drug companies and universities, raised $13.1 [...]

By any measure, Wilkes Hardware Co. doesn’t stack up to its one-time crosstown rival.

In September, Gov. Beverly Perdue announced that completion of the Greensboro Urban Loop will be accelerated with Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicle (GARVEE) bonds, which borrow against future [...]

As one of Tar Heel business’s most famous brands fades away, one of the CEOs who gave it luster recalls what made it shine.

It appears I have become an extremist. I know this because other people have declared it to be so.

Around midnight, the spring sky spawned a twister that tore through Belmont, a small town just across the Catawba River from Charlotte. It ripped an 82,000-square-foot warehouse in half, strewing [...]

Open Grounds Farm Inc. (cover story, September) took a direct hit [...]

LINCOLNTON — Lincolnton Furniture will begin production at a 311,000-square-foot factory here [...]

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Numbers have special power, not the least their ability to measure more precisely than words.