Profile of
North Carolina Citizens
for Business and Industry
 With
about 2,000 member
companies of all types and sizes, North Carolina
Citizens for Business and industry is the
state’s largest and most influential
business group, widely respected for its
balanced, thoughtful approach to public policy
issues. A nonpartisan, nonprofit membership
organization, NCCBI was founded in 1942 and has
served for the past 25 years as the state Chamber
of Commerce, and is recognized as such by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. NCCBI also is the
official state affiliate of the National Association of
Manufacturers. A former governor once
described NCCBI as “almost a fourth branch
of government.”
NCCBI’s
broad mandate is to improve the quality of life
for all North Carolinians, a goal it pursues by
working to safeguard the state’s favorable
business climate, by improving educational
opportunities for everyone and by maintaining a
clean, healthy environment.
NCCBI leadership
was evident in enactment by the General Assembly
of lower corporate income tax rates, repeal
of the intangibles tax, reform of the
workers’ compensation system, increased
funding for state parks, sharply higher salaries
for school teachers, support for mass transit,
and new business tax credits to foster growth and
expansion.
Manufacturers represent the largest group of
members in NCCBI, but the association’s
broad base includes all kinds of businesses,
large and small, as well as most of the colleges,
universities and community colleges in the state.
Most local Chambers of Commerce also are NCCBI
members, as are dozens of trade groups
representing specific businesses and professions.
NCCBI members employ more than one million people in the
state.
The
association’s leadership over the years of
efforts to improve the public schools was
acknowledged with the appointment by Gov. Jim
Hunt of NCCBI President Phil Kirk as chairman of
the State Board of Education, a volunteer position he served in
through May 2003. Kirk previously was vice chairman of
the State Board of Community Colleges.
NCCBI keeps its
members up to date on politics and business
trends through its award-winning North
Carolina
monthly magazine, the weekly Legislative
Bulletin, the monthly For Members Only
newsletter, and other research materials.
Membership dues are a function of a
company’s size and type of business,
starting as low as $400 a year.
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Fact Sheet
History
Mission
NCCBI Officers
Executive
Committee
Directors
NCCBI Staff
Past Chairmen and
Honorees
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