Surry Business

Johnson Granite Inc. on Hiatt Road (also called Landfill Road) just outside Mount Airy won “The Rocky Advertising Award” for 2007 from the Marble Institute of America (MIA). The Marble Institute recognizes the best advertising and promotional materials submitted by MIA members. The award was presented to Vice President Brian Johnson for Johnson Granite’s brochure […]

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David Johnston, an expert on environmentally responsible construction projects, will present an all-day Green Advantage® workshop from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Mount Airy Elks Lodge off U.S. 52. Johnston is an author and president of What’s Working Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based sustainable building consultancy. (See more about Johnston below). The […]

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Joblessness in Surry County last month hit the highest level since the spring of 2005, the N.C. Employment Security Commission reported today. More than 2,100 people — 6.1 percent of the county’s labor force — were unemployed and seeking work in December. The unemployment rate was 0.2 percent higher than in November. Twelve months previously, […]

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Hanesbrands Inc. (NYSE: HBI) will host a live Internet webcast of its quarterly investor conference call at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31. The company will review results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year that ended Dec. 29, 2007. The live Internet broadcast may be accessed on the home page of the Hanesbrands corporate Web […]

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It’s a question of when – not if – the national economic slowdown will affect the job market in the Triad, the High Point Enterprise reported today. “I expect we are going to feel it here,” Don Jud, professor emeritus of business administration at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, told the newspaper. “The […]

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Bank of America Corp. said today its fourth-quarter 2007 earnings fell to $268 million, or 5 cents per share, from $5.26 billion, or $1.16 billion, in the quarter that ended Dec. 31, 2006. Wachovia Corp. said its fourth-quarter profit fell to $51 million, or 3 cents per share, from $2.3 billion, or $1.20 per share, […]

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Triad MLS reports 467 homes, condos and townhouses were sold in the Winston-Salem-area in December 2007 compared to 550 in the same month a year earlier. Residential-home sales (407 last month, 491 in 2006) accounted for all of the decline in volume. However, median and average sales prices rose at the end of 2007, climbing […]

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Insteel Industries Inc. (Nasdaq: IIIN) of Mount Airy today said net earnings fell 28 percent in the first fiscal quarter that ended Dec. 29, 2007, when net sales decreased 5.4 percent compared to the same quarter in 2006. However, operating activities in continuing operations provided $17.3 million of cash during the quarter compared with $4.2 […]

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In a recent six-week sales period, the Sears Roebuck and Co. authorized retail store at 1217 W. Lebanon in Mount Airy had the largest improvement in sales among the eight stores in its North Carolina district. Surry County’s sole Sears store sells appliances, lawn and garden equipment, electronics, Craftsman tools and exercise equipment. It’s open […]

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Amber Contracting of Mount Airy this month will begin construction of a $1.3-million addition to Abington Elementary School in Virginia. The job is to be finished by year’s end. Gary Huffman is the project manager. The 13,920-square foot-addition will include five classrooms, a computer lab, a library and two special education classrooms. Amber Contracting has […]

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