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Online pet food retailer Chewy plans a 1,200-employee fulfillment center in Salisbury, marking the biggest jobs announcement in Rowan County history. Attracting the 700,000-square-foot, $55 [...]

North Carolina is endless acres of cropland, pasture and timber stands which makes it a player on the world stage as an exporter and with experimental agricultural programs.

The fastest-growing N.C. tech firms are backed by big out-of-state investors, from Daniel Loeb to Julian Robertson.

The Charlotte region’s two main industry-hunting organizations are joining forces.

Bryan Jordan, perhaps the most successful banker to come out of Salisbury since Wall Street legend Julian Robertson, had a cool homecoming last week. The CEO of Memphis-based First Horizon [...]

More than 150,000 of the 573,207 people who work in Mecklenburg County commute there from another county in the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill metropolitan statistical area.

SunEnergy 1 LLC, a Mooresville-based solar-panel installer, has taken advantage of the spike in solar-energy tax breaks, with contracts jumping from about $50 million last year to an estimated [...]

For the eighth time in 10 years, Statesville-Mooresville in Iredell County was Site Selection magazine’s top U.S. micropolitan area 

A UNC Charlotte economist says a minor-league ballpark in uptown Charlotte would generate $66.4 million and create 749 jobs in Mecklenburg County if it’s open by 2014. 

When Julian Clayton was a kid, the family computer was so heavy and bulky that the only place to put it was the granite countertop of a bar in the basement. Now his Salisbury-based company [...]