Business
“How did you get into the jewelry business?” I am often asked. “Did your father start this business?” Not a bad guess – a large number of retail jewelry stores are passed from one generation to the next, but in my case it’s because my UNC college roommate, Pablo Lancella, […]
Dan Friedman has opened up a new chocolate boutique shop in Chapel Hill’s Timberlyne Shopping Center. The shop, Special Treats, offers gourmet chocolates, cookies, biscotti and much more made by adults with disabilities around the country. Dan, who just retired from the investment business in Chapel Hill, has an adult […]
Regina Parker graduated in the top one percent of her class at West Point, she is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and she is an accomplished pilot. Now she’s been chosen to take part in the one-year Schwarzman Scholars program at Tsinghua University in China, one of the […]
Andrew Jones founded his business, now co-owned by business partner Marianne Jones, in 1986, but to newcomers traveling down Carrboro’s Main Street, it might look a little prehistoric. Auto Logic’s signature dinosaur mascot, the “Tyrannosaurus Wrench” is just one of the business’s signatures that make their service feel friendly and […]
If you need a job, Max Alway-Townsend can hook you up. The 17-year-old is a rising senior at East Chapel Hill High and the founder of Jobalo – an app that helps high school and college students find work. The app, released in November 2016, features the four types of […]
“We’ve been bringing dogs to work for the last 15 years. Suri, a Norfolk Terrier, turns 4 this month and she’s our official greeter. We have several folks who just stop here to come by and sit with her. She usually lets our UPS driver know that he is coming […]
Chocolatay Confections has been the “soundtrack to some of the happiest moments” in Danielle and Matthew White’s lives. They first got the idea for creating their own treats in 2009 when their son, Mateus (Tay), was diagnosed with severe peanut allergies and could not enjoy many popular candies or desserts. At […]
As part of our series The Creatives, we talk to Lane Wurster, partner and creative director at The Splinter Group. Growing up, were you particularly artistic? No, I was more of a jock. I ran track and cross-country, which is what brought me here from Pennsylvania. I ran at Wake […]
As part of our series The Creatives, we speak with Carol Ann Zinn, founder and president at Zinn Design Build. How did you get started in building? I had been an artist/potter and had a nonprofit pottery school near Calvander. I was a visual person but I was very intrigued […]
