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Business notes Nov. 4

A new shareholders lawsuit accuses the top executives of Cary-based yellow pages publisher R.H. Donnelley of misleading investors. Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

An end to SAS' growth streak?

Software giant SAS, perennially one of the Triangle's fastest-growing companies, is feeling the effects of the recession. Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Home sales

27511 Published: Nov. 6, 2009 2:43 PM | Full story

Business Notes Nov. 1

Kids 'R' Kids donates $7,500 to Make-A-Wish. Published: Nov. 1, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Georgios returns to Cary after long hiatus

Giorgios Bakatsias, who has created some of the Triangle's signature restaurants in the past two decades, is opening a new restaurant in Cary next month. Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:09 AM | Full story

Business Briefs Oct. 28

Yellow pages publisher R.H. Donnelley remains on track to emerge from bankruptcy at the end of January. Published: Oct. 30, 2009 12:14 AM | Full story

Business Briefs Oct. 21

Two more community banks are looking to grow in western Wake County. Published: Oct. 21, 2009 2:02 AM | Full story

Your Letters Oct. 21

I was delighted to see the article about Michael Phillips' corn maze ["The Yow Factor," Oct. 14]. Published: Oct. 21, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Solar farm to grow on SAS' Cary campus

Software developer SAS, the town's biggest private employer, will double the size of the solar farm on its corporate campus. Published: Oct. 21, 2009 2:17 AM | Full story

Business Notes

APEX BUSINESS AFTER HOURS Published: Oct. 21, 2009 2:58 AM | Full story

Developers eye empty nesters

An expected influx of seniors to southwestern Wake County has prompted developers to kick off new communities targeting an older clientele, and promising about 85 jobs. Published: Oct. 14, 2009 2:24 AM | Full story

EQ settles with Apex evacuees

Residents and businesses evacuated after the explosion at a hazardous waste warehouse in Apex three years ago can seek compensation under a class-action suit settlement approved last week. Published: Oct. 14, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

The Yow Factor

There are corn mazes. And then there are corn monuments. Last month, Michael Phillips unveiled his memorial to Kay Yow. Published: Oct. 14, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Hop aboard

Mark Doble was flying his new plane at 8,000 feet when he felt his stomach drop. Published: Oct. 7, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Game centers aim for broader clientele

When Jeff Torello opens his new business in Cary next month, he'll be making a six-figure gamble on the future of the video game business. Published: Sep. 30, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Business Briefs Sept. 9

Two Fuquay-Varina women will receive a historical preservation award for helping to restore a post office that operated in the town in the early 1900s. Published: Sep. 8, 2009 10:23 PM | Full story

Business Briefs Sept. 2

If you see a robot in need of a caffeine fix, chances are a Cary company had something to do with it. Published: Sep. 1, 2009 8:35 PM | Full story

Signs getting more colorful

It seems more customers are wandering into Performance Bicycle with questions not about bikes but about existence, albeit not in the philosophical way. Published: Aug. 25, 2009 8:58 PM | Full story

Amberly shopping on hold

The residents of The Amberly community being built in western Cary may have to wait a little longer for local shopping to arrive. Published: Aug. 25, 2009 9:01 PM | Full story

Cary hands out cash for jobs

To lure financial giant Deutsche Bank and its promised 319 jobs to Cary, town leaders agreed earlier this month to cough up a $75,000 cash incentive on top of $9.4 million offered up by the state. Published: Aug. 25, 2009 8:54 PM | Full story

Financial giant to grow in Cary

Financial services giant Deutsche Bank is zeroing in on Cary for a global technology center that would create more than 300 high-paying jobs. Published: Aug. 19, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story

Cary closing will mean 76 layoffs

Hunter Industries has notified the state Department of Commerce that it will shut down its Cary facility this year and lay off 76 people. Published: Oct. 27, 2009 8:15 PM | Full story

SAS finds good health care pays off

There is standard employer-sponsored health insurance -- and then there are SAS-provided benefits. Published: Oct. 5, 2009 1:37 PM | Full story

Serving up some history in Cary

David Needham must have been paying attention in history class at Cary High School when the subject was local history. When Needham opened his first restaurant last month, he remembered the lesson well enough to name it after Bradford's Ordinary, the 1750 settlement that was the precursor to the modern day Town of Cary. Published: Sep. 2, 2009 7:06 PM | Full story

Carolina Hurricanes turn to SAS software

Carolina Hurricanes fans can thank Cary-based SAS if they like the team's ticket prices next season. Published: Aug. 23, 2009 6:11 PM | Full story

Cary CEO calls Inc. Magazine about typo

List put Cary-based L&S Retail Ventures, owner of the online greeting card store InvitationBox.com, at No. 2,997 but it should have been No. 1,579. Published: Aug. 13, 2009 5:20 PM | Full story

Wal-Mart, Time Warner staffing up

The hiring center is at 1001 Airport Blvd. Suite 320, Morrisville. Published: Aug. 11, 2009 8:48 PM | Full story

Pink truck puts support on display

K.B. Johnson Oil & Gas in Fuquay-Varina is making deliveries in a truck painted with the Komen Foundation logo. Published: Jun. 23, 2009 9:59 PM | Full story

Sew-sew hobby turns into business

No one taught her how, but she began making quilts in 1980 while living in Ames, Iowa. Published: Jun. 9, 2009 2:43 PM | Full story

Woodworking boy turns pens, profits

Love of woodworking turns hobby into business. Published: Jun. 9, 2009 3:08 PM | Full story


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