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CIE, Local Startup Among NC IDEA Grant Recipients

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Mar 14, 2025

CIE, Local Startup Among NC IDEA Grant Recipients

UNCW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Wilmington-based startup Local Catch are among the recipients of the latest round of NC IDEA grant funding. The grant awards, announced in a news release this week, aim to support en ...

Mar 13, 2025

Live Oak Bank, Food Pantry, Apartments Among Real Estate Award Winners

Over the past 14 years, local food pantry Share the Table has grown prolifically. It’s evolved from a fledgling church-based group to an organization that provides 1,000 meals each week. Key to the group’s recent growth has been its ne ...

Mar 12, 2025

Indoor Pickleball Bounces Into Popularity

Last New Year’s Eve, Kayse and Jason Beasley held the grand opening of Pickle & Taps, a 10-court indoor pickleball facility with a drill room on South 13th Street in Wilmington. The couple, who met on a blind date 10 years ago, has been ...

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E32: John Monahan - How I Built a CEO Advisory Group in Wilmington, NC

Posted Feb 27, 2025
John Monahan is an experienced CEO and business leader who has built a Peer Advisory Group for CEOs in Wilmington, NC, as part of the Vistage platform.  Vistage is the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize business leaders.  John shares personal experiences of building and running businesses, and then paying it forward through his advisor...read entire article
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MedNorth Announces Board Chair

Mar 12, 2025

The Amazon Factor: With Facilities In The Works Here, A Look At Impacts On Other NC Cities

When Amazon opened its fulfillment center in Fayetteville last June, people were ecstatic, said Robert Van Geons, president and CEO of the Fayetteville Cumberland County Economic Development Corporation. The 1.3-million-square-foot facility in Fay ...

Mar 12, 2025

Putting The Pieces In Place

Last summer, the Harpoon slayed, so to speak, on social media. That’s when Cape Fear Catamarans posted a video of the 22-foot aluminum vessel, its newest creation, online. The Harpoon footage “racked up millions of views over Instagram ...

Mar 12, 2025

What’s Next For Tariffs

Less than two weeks after assuming office, on Feb. 1, President Trump – in line with his plans previously announced on social media – imposed “a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on ...

Mar 12, 2025

Apparel Business Presses For Growth

It’s probably safe to say Zack Sblendorio thinks about ink more than a lot of people. Sblendorio is chief operating officer of SeaSide Silk Screening, a Wilmington-headquartered family-owned business. His father, Mark Sblendorio, is the comp ...

Mar 12, 2025

High Hopes For More Businesses

Imagine U.S. 17 in Hampstead as a two-lane road, with kids playing games in the roadway all week except Fridays and Sundays because that’s when Camp Lejeune Marines were driving to and from Wilmington and Myrtle Beach. It hardly seems possib ...

Mar 12, 2025

Device Firm Has An Eye For An Eye

The owners of Surgilūm, an eye surgery device company headquartered in Wilmington, say their company is small but nimble like its award-winning devices. The six-person team develops and provides surgeons with tools to simplify surgical procedures. ...

Mar 12, 2025

Groups Navigate Federal Funding Changes

 Wilmington-area nonprofits and other local groups that rely on federal funding are feeling the impacts of recent actions from the new presidential administration. Executive actions and memos issued by President Donald Trump’s administr ...


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Indoor Pickleball Bounces Into Popularity

One venue's idea for an indoor pickleball facility came from travel for business and commuting to Brunswick County to play when the weather...


High Hopes For More Businesses

Brad George doesn’t have to imagine Hampstead as a rural village with little to no traffic most of the time. He was there....


Device Firm Has An Eye For An Eye

Surgilūm’s newest device, the RoboMarker G2, is a precision pre-operative device used by eye surgeons to accurately mark the eye for astigma...

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