Surry Business

Ty Ransdell, a 27-year veteran in the newspaper industry, is the new publisher of the Elkin Tribune, The Yadkin Ripple and On the Vine magazine, all owned by Heartland Publications. He takes over from Gary Lawrence, Heartland Publications’ regional manager and publisher of The Mount Airy News, who has been the Tri-County News’ interim publisher. […]

[Read more →]

Eagle Carports Inc., a privately held North Carolina corporation with its headquarters’ offices just north of Surry County in Cana, Va., has purchased 132,200-square-foot plant formerly owned by Spencer’s Inc. along U.S. 52 at Arlington Street in Mount Airy. According to The Mount Airy News, in an Oct. 16 story citing county records, Eagle Carports […]

[Read more →]

Selling on eBay, effective marketing on a budget, worksite safety and bookkeeping are the topics of four upcoming seminars arranged by the Small Business Center at Surry Community College. Three of the four are free and “Dynamite Marketing on a Firecracker Budget” costs only $5. See the schedule below: Business Related Seminars Schedule Days Time […]

[Read more →]

All in One Portrait Studio will open its doors with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 19, at 788 W. Lebanon St. in Mount Airy. The studio’s telephone number is (336) 786-0045.

[Read more →]

Wachovia Corporation’s board of directors has approved the company’s regular 64-cents-per-share quarterly cash dividend on its common stock. The dividend is payable on Dec. 17, 2007, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Nov. 30, 2007. Wachovia Corporation (NYSE: WB) is one of the nation’s largest diversified financial services companies, with […]

[Read more →]

Mobys Coffee Company, a Christian coffeehouse operator and franchiser founded less than three years ago in Mount Airy, N.C., is opening new stores this fall in Winston-Salem. Mobys Coffee also recently announced it will introduce a special “CHRISTmas Blend” on Nov. 13. The Summit Square store at 193 N. Summit Square Blvd. opened Oct. 17. […]

[Read more →]

Triad-area real-estate brokers sold approximately 1,140 homes and condo units in September 2007. That is 28 percent less than in September 2006, according to the Triad Multiple Listing Service that compiles statistics from an 11-county region including Surry County and the cities of Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point. More than half of the units being […]

[Read more →]

Don’t expect next year’s list of Surry County’s largest employers to look much like the Top 25 list displayed right now on the N.C. Employment Security Commission’s web site. Each year’s list is based on the previous year’s data. For the current report, employment statistics from September 2006 were compiled in March 2007. In the […]

[Read more →]

Though September sales gains were moderate, they were better than expected, giving retailers a welcome surprise as they head into the ever-important holiday season. According to the National Retail Federation, retail industry sales (which exclude automobiles, gas stations, and restaurants) last month rose 2.2 percent unadjusted over last year and 0.2 percent seasonally adjusted from […]

[Read more →]

Family Dollar earned $242.9 million, or $1.62 per diluted share, in fiscal 2007, the year that ended Sept. 1, 2007. That is up 24.5 percent from $195.1 million, or $1.26 per diluted share, in fiscal 2006, but the results for 2006 include a $45-million litigation charge and a $10.5-million charge related to stock-option grants. Sales […]

[Read more →]