N&O Index Card Listings

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Corporations - Acquisitions and Mergers
  • Bank (First-Citizens) buys mortgage firm (Stockton, White) - Ja 3 85 5B
  • Fla.-based group buys Capital Club, plans renovation - Ja 5 85 5C
  • Natural gas firm agrees to merger (Piedmont; Tenn. Natural Resources) - Ja 6 85 28A
  • Real estate firms' merger approved (Sunstates; Treco) - Ja 30 85 5B
  • Poultry processor (Perdue) to buy N.C. firm (White Poultry Farms) - Ja 31 85 9B
  • Farmers Bank merger OK'd (with First Citizens) - Fe 5 85 3D
  • Small investment reaps $3.7 million (Medic Computer systems) - Fe 5 85 2D
  • N&O company to buy 3 S.C. papers - Fe 20 85 8B
  • Two of 4 biggest N.C. banks want to merge (First Union; Northwestern Financial) - Mr 5 85 1
  • Ruth workers' reprieve - Mr 6 85 8B
  • Village Companies to sell radio station (WWQQ-FM) - Mr 7 85 21A
  • S&L purchase advances (Old Stone acquiring First Federal) - Mr 8 85 8C
  • Mutual respect, similarities mark Northwestern-First Union merger - Mr 10 85 8D
  • NCNB agrees to sell TranSouth to San Francisco-based firm - Mr 19 85 10D
  • Record Bar buys chain (Licorice Pizza) - Mr 20 85 5B
  • Carolina Steel OKs plans for merger - Mr 28 85 5B
  • First Federal gets OK to buy thrift (First Security S&L) - Ap 2 85 5D
  • Days Inn motel on U.S. 70 sold - Ap 28 85 9D
  • First Citizens plans to buy 34 offices - My 9 85 11B
  • Bottler to buy Dr Pepper - My 10 85 8C
  • Fayetteville (Guaranty) S&L gets North State - My 14 85 5D
  • International law office acquires Raleigh firm (Akins, Mann, Pike and Mercer) - My 23 85 19C
  • Nabisco, RJR hold 'exploratory talks' - My 30 85 7B
  • R. J. Reynolds, Nabisco announce mammoth merger - Jn 3 85 1
  • Alamance County hospitals merge - Jn 8 85 20C
  • Global Software sold to Hathaway - Jn 11 85 7D
  • Group (First Union) seeks to take over Tenn. bank firm, report says - Jn 13 85 23A
  • Badische Co. plans to buy Enka Co. - Jn 14 85 8C
  • Moorhead sells Durham (ad) agency - Jn 18 85 8D
  • Wachovia, First Union announce mergers with out-of-state banks - Jn 18 85 1
  • First Union plans another merger (Central Florida Bank) - Jy 17 85 8B
  • Texas company (Southmark) to buy N.C. insurance firm (Integon) - Jy 17 85 8B
  • NCNB Corp. to buy Fla banks; deal valued at $219 million - Jy 25 85 9B
  • Corporation (Penril) buys Durham company (Network Products) - Jy 26 85 5C
  • Darryl's to be sold to W. R. Grace - Jy 26 85 5C
  • NCNB agrees to merge with Georgia bank (Southern National Bankshares) - Jy 26 85 5C
  • N.C. TV station (WGHP) bought by Taft - Au 2 85 10C
  • NCNB to buy branches in Gaston Co. - Au 2 85 10C
  • First Atlanta rejected NCNB for Wachovia - Au 20 85 1D
  • Southern National Corp. of Lumberton plans to acquire small bank in S.C. - Au 31 85 9B
  • Two major N.C. law firms to merge - Se 1 85 39A
  • First Union plans to buy major S.C. banking firm (Southern Bancorporation) - Se 21 85 8B
  • Interstate mergers shunning midsize N.C. banks - Se 29 85 6D
  • Two Raleigh law firms merge (become Maupin, Taylor, Ellis and Adams) - Oc 1 85 7D
  • Durham insurance company merges with affiliate (now Peoples Security) - Oc 2 85 7B
  • Piedmont to buy airline serving Northeast, Canada (Empire Airlines) - Oc 3 85 7B
  • Raleigh company (Pope Mortgage) buys Tenn. mortgage company - Oc 19 85 9B
  • N.C. Phosphate merges with biggest N.C. rival (Texasgulf) - Oc 25 85 7C
  • RTP's only commercial property to be sold by Durham company - Oc 25 85 7C
  • Mortgage firm purchase finalized (Northwestern Mortgage by Barclays) - No 1 85 5C
  • Brown-Wynne merges with Fallon's Florist - No 7 85 6B
  • Jim Walter buys two N.C. brick makers (Cherokee; Sanford) - No 14 85 8B
  • Aviation Group to be acquired by Va. company (Primark) - No 15 85 6B
  • Del. company (Townsend) to buy 2 Chatham poultry plants (Lane Processing) - No 19 85 7D
  • Bensons' building firm to be sold (Carolina Builders) - No 21 85 7B
  • Wilson building company sold (Carolina Builders) - No 22 85 6C
  • Planters, Bank of Pilot Mountain to merge - No 27 85 9B
  • Most of Cannon Mills sold to Fieldcrest Mills - De 5 85 1
  • N&O Publishing Co. acquires control of N.C. business monthly (Shaw Communications) - De 7 85 9B
  • 2 Raleigh men buy 2 Durham radio stations (WDUR-AM; WFXC-FM) - De 11 85 6B
  • S.C. apparel company buys Riegel division - De 11 85 8B
  • Furniture company (Dixie) to buy (United Globe) plant - De 12 85 6B
  • Planters to acquire (First National) bank in Smithfield - De 13 85 4B
  • Lighting company (Dixie Industrial Electric) sold to pay back taxes - De 18 85 7B
  • Hudson Belk to absorb Durham's Belk Leggett - De 20 85 4B
  • S.C. bank OKs purchase by Southern National - De 21 85 9B
Corporations - Acquisitions and Mergers
  • Coca-Cola bottler expands; Company to purchase stock of Tennessee firm - Ja 12 90 8C
  • Furniture maker's (Unique Furniture Makers) assets to be sold (to CollingWood) - Ja 17 90 5C
  • Peoples, Planters to merge; Deal ends rivalry between 2 banks - Ja 17 90 1
  • Rival banks decide merger makes sense (Peoples; Planters) - Ja 21 90 1F
  • Beck Realtors merges with Fonville Morisey - Ja 23 90 1D
  • Cellular firms plan to form partnership (Vanguard; Cellular One) - Ja 23 90 2D
  • Computer-link firm (Siecor) sells Cary division to DuPont - Ja 24 90 6C
  • Out-of-state banks likely to enter N.C. by mergers - Ja 28 90 10K
  • Hardee's to buy Roy Rogers from Marriott - Ja 31 90 6C
  • Farmville leaf company (A.C. Monk), Tenn. firm to combine - Fe 2 90 5C
  • Competitor acquires Murchison; Sporting goods firm sold for $3.6 million - Fe 16 90 5C
  • Carolina Builders to add line with Carolina Components buy - Fe 17 90 5C
  • Southern National interested in buying S&L in Durham - Fe 22 90 5C
  • Senators introduce legislation to limit leveraged buyouts - Fe 23 90 3B
  • Tri-State Homes, David Hahn Construction merge - Fe 24 90 8C
  • Good timing helps Sanford tout effort to limit leveraged buyouts - Fe 25 90 1C
  • Boards agree to merge 2 Western N.C. banks (Bank of Iredell; First Commercial Holding Corp) - Fe 27 90 1D
  • Primerica Corp. buys BarclaysAmerican unit - Mr 2 90 5C
  • W. S. Clark reports purchase of N.C. firm (Wilmington Fertilizer) - Mr 6 90 1D
  • Investor group to buy Interco's Sky City chain - Mr 15 90 5C
  • Farley sells Cluett Peabody - Mr 17 90 8C
  • Eastman Kodak to sell Charlotte subsidiary (Verbatim) - Mr 22 90 5C
  • BB&T plans to buy Greensboro (Gate City) S&L - Mr 28 90 6C
  • Zack's yogurt chain sold to N.C. company - Ap 4 90 6C
  • Raleigh firm (Variety Wholesalers) buys Maxway chain - Ap 13 90 5C
  • South Carolina company buys Raleigh electronics distributor (Southeastern Electronics) - Ap 13 90 5C
  • Business Telecom buys phone company (Econowats) - Ap 21 90 5C
  • GTE Corp. buys Cellular One phone system - Ap 21 90 5C
  • CCB makes bid for Troy bank (First Bancorp) - Ap 25 90 6C
  • Texfi buys S.C. apparel maker (Bridge Street Apparel) - Ap 25 90 7C
  • First Citizens plans to guy Southport bank (Peoples) - Ap 26 90 6C
  • Piedmont Mining buys assets of MMC Holding - My 2 90 6C
  • Arkansas store chain (Dillard) to buy Ivey's - My 5 90 1
  • Garner Wholesale sold to Calif. firm - My 8 90 1D
  • Sara Lee Corp. buys undergarment maker (Henson Kickernick) - My 10 90 6C
  • 2 dialysis clinics in (Wilson and Goldsboro) N.C. bought by REN Corp. - My 11 90 6C
  • S.C. firm (Delta Woodside Industries) to buy division of Durham Hosiery - My 11 90 6C
  • Integon sells business of mortgage insurance - My 24 90 6C
  • Aeroglide buys firm in Mass. - My 25 90 6C
  • GE Mortgage Capital to buy Travelers unit - My 26 90 8C
  • Morrison Knudsen sells Rocky Mount division - My 29 90 1D
  • Acton set to take on furniture; Company plans to buy Hickory Furniture Co. - My 30 90 6C
  • Booke agrees to merge with software firm (Micro Software & Services) - Jn 1 90 7C
  • Banks merger old topic (Peoples and Planters) - Jn 3 90 1F
  • Eastman Kodak sells Verbatim to Japanese firm - Jn 6 90 10C
  • Greensboro man (Parks) called interested insurer - Jn 7 90 6C
  • Unity Bank plans to buy 11 branches; Planters-People merger spurs decision to sell - Jn 7 90 6C
  • Millidyne announces purchase of Sequel Data - Jn 8 90 10C
  • President, 2 others buy Sarreid from Chartwell - Jn 19 90 1D
  • BB&T Financial plans to buy Greenville S&L (First Federal) - Jn 22 90 6C
  • First Wachovia bid OK'd (to buy assets of Great Southern Federal) - Jn 23 90 8C
  • 2 community banks (Triangle and Enterprise) in Raleigh to merge - Jn 26 90 1D
  • Flakt negotiating to sell Winston-Salem plant - Jy 6 90 5C
  • (VIP) Personnel chain changes hands - Jy 20 90 6C
  • BB&T says it will buy Albemarle S&L - Jy 20 90 6C
  • Accountants mull merger (Durham, Martin, Jenkins with Cooper & Lybrand) - Jy 22 90 1F
  • Merger is a matter of survival; Durham (Mutual) S&L tries to bail out minority insititution in Greensboro - Jy 22 90 1F
  • Durham Corp. may sell broadcast unit - Jy 31 90 1D
  • Texfi Industries to buy stake in Jefferson Mills - Jy 31 90 1D
  • Carolina First to absorb Cabarrus Savings Bank - Au 2 90 5C
  • Raleigh accounting firms merge - Au 2 90 5C
  • Va. company acquires N.C. investment firm (Fox, Graham & Mintz Securities) - Au 10 90 5C
  • S&Ls' shareholders OK merger with bank - Au 16 90 5C
  • Waste Disposal buys assets of trash-truck maker - Au 31 90 7C
  • Pitney Bowes Inc. buys 100 First Union branches - Se 1 90 8C
  • BB&T completes deal for S&L in Pitt County - Se 5 90 7C
  • Raleigh billboard executive (Bryant) to buy Naegele operations - Se 7 90 6C
  • Global sells software unit to California company - Se 11 90 8D
  • British conglomerate completes purchase of McDevitt & Street - Se 18 90 2D
  • Coca-Cola Bottling buys 2 W.Va. firms - Se 18 90 2D
  • Southern National will buy S.C. bank - Se 21 90 7C
  • First Citizens to buy Brevard Federal S&L - Se 27 90 6C
  • S.C. bank to buy scuttled Tar Heel (Old Republic) S&L - Oc 4 90 6C
  • Employees to buy Medic from Black & Decker - Oc 5 90 6C
  • GoodMark Foods buys meat snack competitor - Oc 10 90 6C
  • St. Louis retailer (May) buying Thalhimers - Oc 10 90 1
  • Kenan Oil sells propane operations - Oc 11 90 6C
  • Fonville Morisey buys Southland operations - Oc 23 90 1D
  • Du Pont to sell stake in N.C. disk plant - Oc 24 90 10C
  • Pancake palace changing guard - Oc 25 90 6C
  • Brown-Wynne Funeral Home in Raleigh sold - Oc 27 90 7C
  • Robeson to buy Highland deposits - Oc 27 90 7C
  • Storr Office in Raleigh sells its supplies unit - No 1 90 7C
  • Canadian firm to buy Mitchell Funeral Home - No 2 90 6C
  • CSC Concrete buys ailing Oxford plant - No 17 90 7C
  • French computer company buys Kodak's Yourdon Inc. in Raleigh - De 5 90 7C
  • NCNB gets go-ahead to buy Florida S&Ls - De 11 90 1D
  • S&L in Oxford considers merger; Talks under way with Fuquay-Varina bank - De 13 90 7C
  • First citizens plans merger with S&L in Hendersonville - De 22 90 6C
  • Nashville company (ClinTrials) purchases Clinical Research in Durham - De 29 90 6C
Corporations - Acquisitions and Mergers
  • Company (Synertech) plans to buy, merge two biotech firms - My 21 89 2I
  • Integon Corp. agrees to be sold for $294 million - My 24 89 6B
  • BB&T cuts deal to buy Carolina Bancorp - My 25 89 10B
  • Insurance agencies plan to merge; Moore and Johnson to acquire Charles E. Johnson and Sons - My 26 89 7B
  • Rocky Mount undergarment to sell menswear division to Ithaca - My 27 89 8B
  • Professor (Ravenscraft) says leveraged buyout study might be skewed - My 28 89 3I
  • Furniture firm (LADD) buys 6 makers - Jn 2 89 6B
  • House extends law on hostile takeovers - Jn 2 89 12A
  • Advocates say S&L mergers should be rejected because of loan practices - Jn 7 89 6B
  • Possible changes after merger of two securities firms unclear (Thomson McKinnon; Prudential-
  • Bache) - Jn 15 89 9B
  • Beaman Corp. rejects $13.5 million offer - Jn 17 89 5B
  • Banks likely targets - Jn 18 89 1I
  • Some states ahead of N.C. on corporate takeover protection - Jn 18 89 5I
  • Greensboro air charter service buys RDU-based carrier Air Carolina - Jn 20 89 3D
  • Merging accounting firms (ERNST & WHINNEY; ARTHUR YOUNG) to look for office space - Jn 24 89 5B
  • Ragan Henry finishes radio station (WQOK-FM) purchase - Jn 27 89 1D
  • Durham Corp. will sell subsidiary (State Capital Insurance Co.) - Jn 30 89 7B
  • Toy maker (Empire of Carolina) targets Miami company (Deltona) - Jn 30 89 7B
  • Agency (Frederick) buys Raleigh insurance agency (Frazier) - Jy 1 89 8B
  • Sturdivant Life sold to California company - Jy 8 89 5B
  • Merging accounting firms haven't worked out details - Jy 11 89 4D
  • PBM Graphics buying part of printing firm (Fisher-Harrison) - Jy 13 89 12B
  • Inskeep out at WRAL-FM; WKIX/WYLT sold - Jy 19 89 6D
  • Two Raleigh law firms have merged (Smith, Debnam, Hibbert & Pahl and Russell & Harris) - Jy 19 89 8B
  • Lyon's Food Stores gets new owner (Byrd) - Jy 22 89 5B
  • Variety Wholesalers buys 106-store Georgia chain (Allied Department Stores) - Jy 22 89 5B
  • Merger of pharmaceutical makers approved (SmithKline Beckman; Beecham Group) - Jy 27 89 8B
  • Conn. utility buys Cary testing laboratory - Au 1 89 5D
  • Bank merger rumored (First Wachovia; Sovran) - Au 6 89 1I
  • Takeover talk boosts stock of Hardee's parent firm - Au 15 89 3D
  • Child-care center in Durham (Children Park) to be sold - Au 17 89 8B
  • Rescue law leads to Peoples S&L deal in Boone - Au 18 89 5B
  • Accounting mergers may benefit clients - Au 20 89 1I
  • Illinois firm (Dean Foods) buys Faison pickle maker (Charles F. Cates) - Au 22 89 1D
  • Greenville security firm (MacKenzie) buys Fla. company - Au 30 89 6B
  • Mead Corp. will sell susidiary (Mead Release Products) to N.C. firm (Rexham Industries) - Au 30 89 6B
  • Texfi buys Kingstree Knits - Se 2 89 7B
  • Union Bancshares to buy Citizens Bank - Se 2 89 7B
  • Takeover offer for N.C. firm (Fieldcrest Cannon) draws SEC ire - Se 8 89 8B
  • Raleigh communications firm (Voyager) agrees to buy 2 South Carolina radio stations - Se 14 89 7B
  • Architecture firms announce merger (McKimmon/Edwards/Hitch and Shawcroft) - Se 16 89 8B
  • NCNB Corp. acquires Manteo S&L's deposits - Se 16 89 8B
  • Southern National to buy (Western Carolina) S&L - Se 16 89 8B
  • Franklinton firm merges its operations (European Woodworking and Wehrmann U.S.) - Se 19 89 1D
  • Liggett Group buys N.Y. trading-card firm - Se 20 89 5B
  • Chain to buy S.C. papers from N&O Publishing Company - Se 26 89 1D
  • Coors to buy Stroh; Winston-Salem plant part of deal - Se 26 89 1D
Corporations - Acquisitions and Mergers
  • Tarboro plant (Ericsson Cables') sold, may add 6 workers - Ap 30 88 8B
  • Raleigh firm (Sunstates) merges with cable TV company (Acton) - Ma 3 88 1D
  • DILLON SUPPLY buys Tennessee distributor (Tri-Cities Industrial Supply Co.) - Ma 6 88 6B
  • Hickory company buys two more cable plants - Ma 6 88 6B
  • Takeover statute credited (saving small shareholders from corporate 'raids') - Ma 6 88 6B
  • Greensboro company (Beamon) to be taken private - Ma 12 88 8B
  • Dillon Supply Co. buys small Va. supply firm - Ma 27 88 7B
  • Panel urges repeal of state takeover law - Ma 27 88 7B
  • Reeds Jewelers to buy five-store Okla. chain - Ma 27 88 7B
  • Cable franchises (Alert) to get new owner - Ma 28 88 5B
  • USAIR delays completion of merger with Piedmont - Ma 28 88 5B
  • Hills Foods chain buys 4 Eastern N.C. stores - Jn 1 88 5B
  • Triangle firm (SLM Action Sports) buys pool unit - Jn 9 88 7B
  • Greensboro firm (Bud Holding) buys Raleigh truck dealer (North State) - Jn 16 88 10B
  • Capitol Broadcasting buys Indiana station - Jn 17 88 7B
  • Raleigh computer firm (Automated Office Systems) sold to Cleveland chain - Jn 22 88 6B
  • Texfi to buy sportswear maker (Vertex) near Burlington - Jn 29 88 7B
  • Brokerage (J.C.Bradford) buys office in Raleigh (Pinnacle Group) - Jn 30 88 7B
  • Calif. company buys Charlotte software firm (BSC) - Jn 30 88 7B
  • Tobacco plant (Tobacco Growers Services) sold in Fuquay-Varina (to Carolina Leaf) - Jy 8 88 5B
  • Raleigh electronics firm (Protocol Technologies) to be bought - Jy 12 88 3D
  • Mobile-home dealership sold (NC Mobile Homes) - Jy 13 88 7B
  • Va. firm completes purchase of Northrop division - Jy 14 88 10B
  • INTERSTATE to merge with Atlanta firm - Jy 16 88 5B
  • Raleigh architect, three others buy out firm (Architectural Group) - Jy 16 88 5B
  • Raleigh mortgage insurer (General Electric Mortgage Ins.) buys rival in Wisconsin - Jy 20 88 5B
  • Nash Johnson considers selling rendering plant in Rose Hill - Jy 22 88 8B
  • Managers, bank to buy Carolina Steel - Jy 23 88 5B
  • Takeover talk (some Triangle companies) - Jy 24 88 1I
  • Kemp Furniture agrees to sale - Jy 29 88 8B
  • Raleigh software company (Infocel) buys division of Texas firm - Jy 29 88 5B
  • Durham man (Hamner) buys auto product firm; Developer broadens scope of investments - Jy 30 88 5B
  • Wheat, First acquires Pa. brokerage - Au 2 88 1D
  • Charlotte lock company (Yale) buys 3 manufacturers - Au 3 88 5B
  • Merger fever spreads through securities industry - Au 3 88 5B
  • SAS buys Canadian computer graphics firm - Au 3 88 8B
  • N.C. commuter airline (CCAir Inc.) buys freight routes - Au 4 88 6B
  • Thomasville Furniture buys Tennessee firm - Au 4 88 6B
  • Admiral Transportation Services to merge with Miami capital fund - Au 5 88 6B
  • (Triangle) Bank buys leasing company (Investors Equipment Leasing) - Au 6 88 8B
  • Carolina Builders buys S.C. supplier - Au 6 88 8B
  • Hanes Cos. bought by investment group - Au 6 88 8B
  • Dillard Paper Co. buys Baltimore competitor - Au 10 88 5B
  • Winston-Salem firm (INTEGON) may be buyout target - Au 11 88 6B
  • Pinnacle Group to sell most of its assets - Au 12 88 5B
  • McM posts $1.8 million loss; Raleigh insurance company faces outstanding claims; seeks buyer - Au 13 88 8B
  • United Carolina buys insurance operation (Insurance Center of Columbus) - Au 13 88 8B
  • British fire protection firm buying N.C. plants - Au 17 88 7B
  • Raleigh printing firm (Contemporary Lithographers) sold to 2 partners (Boon; Laughhunn) - Au 17 88 6B
  • Emery consolidates in Piedmont - Au 18 88 10B
  • Josten's makes offer on publishing firm (HUNTER) - Au 20 88 8B