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Workers and employers apparently have two different views of the N.C. economy.

Cricket Arena appears set to get a new, Cajun-fried name: Bojangles' Coliseum.

The French nuclear services company Areva could nearly double its Charlotte employment by 2012 as an expected nuclear renaissance continues to expand the region's energy hub.

Jeff Preddy's tobacco farm, half an hour north of Raleigh, has for seven decades catered to the tastes of smokers. It may soon serve another clientele: connoisseurs of organic bread.

This Observer report covers 50 of the Carolinas' largest public companies, based on revenue.

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