June 2023

The June Business North Carolina cover story features QHP Capital, an innovative Raleigh private-equity group. Other features include a ranking of the state’s biggest financial institutions and money management groups; the Cherokee tribe’s wager on marijuana for a regional economic boost; the N.C. Tech awards; and the annual Best Employers in North Carolina. The edition also includes a legal battle between major protein producers and retailers; a family recipe turned into a hot-selling gourmet snack; a coastal beach club building on its elite status; a veteran economist’s solution to calm the banking industry’s turmoil; How Luther Hodges Jr. reinvented himself throughout his career; and a Johnston County flour mill expansion.