NCCBI News
Membership
Campaign a Success
Association Likely Will Meet Goal of "2000
by 2000"
NCCBI
accelerated its annual membership campaign last
month with a flurry of events in Eastern North
Carolina and the Piedmont. Officials were still
counting the number of new members who joined the
association, but they predict the final tally
will show NCCBI having one of its most successful
recruitment campaigns in recent years.
Prominent among the
recruitment events was a Feb. 8 reception at the
new Exploris children's museum in downtown
Raleigh, hosted by Sherwood Smith, the former
CP&L chairman, and Gordon Smith, the
philanthropist who is chairman of the museum
board. Sponsoring the reception were Research
Triangle Regional Partnership, AT&T,
CP&L, Martin Marietta Materials and York
Properties. About 75 members and prospective
members attended.
Other recruitment events
in February included a Feb. 14 reception in Duck
at the home of Polly and Dave Wessel; a Feb. 16
luncheon at Town Hall in Edenton; a Feb. 16
reception at Bayside Restaurant in Edenton; a
Feb. 17 breakfast at Campbell University in Buies
Creek; a Feb. 17 luncheon at Catherine's
Restaurant in Ahoskie; a Feb. 17 reception at
Pine Lakes Country Club in Elizabeth City; a Feb.
21 reception at Wild Flower Restaurant in
Henderson; a Feb. 22 luncheon at the Ramada Inn
in Oxford; a Feb. 22 reception at the Mid Pines
Resort in Southern Pines, a Feb. 23 reception at
the Hilton in Greenville; and a Feb. 24 reception
at the home of Charles Hayes in Sanford.
All of the events were
staged with the support of the regional economic
development partnerships in those areas. The N.C.
Partnership for Economic Development, the
umbrella organization over the regional
organizations, is partnering with NCCBI this year
to promote membership in the association.
In addition, SouthTrust
Bank donated 100 free rounds of golf at the Old
North State Club in New London as an incentive
for companies joining NCCBI. The incentive was
the idea of bank President N. Bradley Thompson
Jr., a member of NCCBI's Executive Committee.
More help for the
membership drive came from Kelly King, the
BB&T executive and NCCBI executive committee
member. He volunteered a team of bank executives
to recruit new members for the association.
Individual members of
the NCCBI board signed up 93 new members, the
most that the board ever has brought in. The
staff of NCCBI recruited 100 new members over the
past year.
This year's membership
drive has been under the direction of Gordon
Myers of Asheville, the Ingles Markets executive.
Previously, membership
recruitment events were held in Cary, Wilmington,
Asheville and Charlotte.
The Charlotte event, at
White Oaks, the Duke family mansion, was hosted
by Mac Everett of First Union, the incoming
chairman of NCCBI, and Erskine Bowles, the
Charlotte investment banker and former White
House chief of staff. It was attended by about
150. Sponsoring the event were Microsoft, First
Union, Duke Energy and KPMG Peat Marwick.
NCCBI began its fiscal
year last April with about 1,875 members, and it
appears that the association will reach Chairman
Phil Phillips' goal of 2000 by 2000.
Newsletter
Conversion: NCCBI members are reminded
that, beginning next month, the association's two
newsletters will switch from print to electronic
delivery. The Legislative Bulletin, which
comes out every Friday when the General Assembly
is in session, and the For Members Only
newsletter, published monthly at other times of
the year, will be delivered to subscribers
primarily by e-mail. Those members who don't have
e-mail will receive the newsletters by fax.
Members who have neither e-mail nor access to a
fax machine will be mailed a photostat copy.
NCCBI is updating its
lists of members' e-mail addresses and fax
numbers. Forms for that purpose have been
included in recent issues of the newsletters. The
quickest way for a member to provide that
information is to go directly to NCCBI's web
site, nccbi.org, and fill out a form there.
New Board Member:
Jerry Cook of Winston-Salem, vice president of
international trade at Sara Lee Branded Apparel,
was named to the NCCBI Board of Directors to fill
a two-year term created by the retirement of Ann
Gaither of J.H. Heafner Co.
Membership Directory:
Each NCCBI member recently was mailed a form to
be used in updating information for the 2000
edition of the Membership Directory and Buyers
Guide. If you haven't done so already, please
take a moment to fill out the form and fax it
back in.
Membership News:
New members since Jan. 1 include: ABD
Development, Biscoe; Allstate Insurance
Co., Atlanta; Aston Properties,
Charlotte; Bank of Davie, Mocksville; Barnhardt
& Walker, Concord; Beacham Associates
Ltd., Jacksonville; Conner Gwyn Schenck
PLLC, Raleigh; The Daniel Group, Charlotte;
Derby and Associates, Charlotte; Froehling
& Robertson Inc., Raleigh; Garris-Evans
Lumber Co. Inc., Greenville; Robert H.
Hall, PLLC, Cary; Jackson, Lewis,
Schnitzler & Krupman, Greenville, S.C; MarketWorks,
Lakeview; McKinney Orchard & Gardens,
Winston-Salem; Rep. Marian McLawhorn,
Grifton; Rep. Max Melton, Raleigh; Merchandise
Mart Properties, High Point; MountainBank,
Hendersonville; North American Publishing, Cary;
Rep. David Redwine, Ocean Isle Beach; The
Revere Group, Charlotte; Sockwell and
Associates, Charlotte; Thomasville
Furniture Industries Inc., Thomas-ville.
NCCBI Calendar:
The
Transportation Committee will meet Monday, April
3, 2-4 p.m.
The Health Care
Committee will meet Tuesday, April 4, 2-4 p.m.
The Economic
Development Committee will meet Monday, April 10,
10-noon.
The Council of
Local Chambers will meet Monday, April 17, 12-3
p.m., at the Durham Chamber of Commerce.
The
Environmental Concerns Committee will meet
Friday, April 21, 10-1 p.m., at the Capital City
Club in Raleigh.
The Legislative
Reception preceding the annual NCCBI Legislative
Conference will be held Monday, May 8, 5:30-7
p.m. at the Raleigh Entertainment and Sports
Arena, the new home of the Carolina Hurricanes
and N.C. State Wolfpack basketball. NCCBI is
accepting sponsorships from member companies for
the reception.
The annual
NCCBI Legislative Conference will be held
Tuesday, May 9, 8:30-2 p.m., at the McKimmon
Center in Raleigh.
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