March 2016
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Round Table: Energy
North Carolina is one of the leading states when it comes to the energy...
Western: Skin tight
Avadim Technologies CEO Steven Woody announces plans to add 550 jobs once the company opens a new Black Mountain headquarters and manufacturing site.
Best Employers in NC: Sea Change
The state’s best employers shower their staffs with various perks to show appreciation and encourage loyalty. Want to learn paddleboarding?
Ring Master
Known for relentless polling, passion for Democratic politics and a raconteur’s spirit, Raleigh businessman Dean Debnam has also built a company that lends a hand to workers across the globe.
New cop on the beat
At a lectern in dark suit and pale-blue tie, he sounds like a doctor...
Chart toppers
With more than a billion dollars worth of projects and improvements planned or underway,...
West: Pin action
Early one February afternoon during a snowstorm that kept Watauga County schools closed for...
Charlotte: Southern Exposure
For a neighborhood bustling with new office buildings, apartments and restaurants, SouthPark’s future seems...
Triad: On the right track
Former Greensboro Mayor Jim Melvin and other Triad executives are exuberant about the North...
Triangle: What the doctor ordered
Doctors complain a lot about insurance companies, so they might as well own one....
East: Teeing up jobs
Salt Life decals, stuck on everything from rusty pickups to shiny sports cars, evoke...
Look back: Bit players
Fifteen companies that ranked at the top of the state’s tech industry in 2001 remain vital forces.
NC Trend: Coastal swing
At least four major housing developments are in the works, from Currituck to Wilmington.
NC Trend: The power of play
Marketers up their game to reach ever-busier parents and their children.
NC Trend: Match strikers
College consulting company connects under-the-radar athletes with top schools.
NC Trend: Indies are back
When reports surfaced that Amazon.com may follow its first brick-and-mortar store in Seattle with...
NC Trend: Planet chicken
Poultry should pass pork as the world’s most popular meat by 2020. What will that mean for North Carolina, where more than 20,000 people work in the industry?
Point taken: Green with envy
A stark snapshot of the wide divide in wages earned by residents of the state’s urban and rural counties.
Town square: Jerry’s world
One of Asheboro’s most successful native sons helps revitalize the city stung by manufacturers’ departures.
Up front: Risky business
So there has been much talk in the state’s economic- development community about landing...
