The July Business North Carolina represents our economic development issue, with our cover story featuring Toyota battery and the ranking of the state's top job-creating projects over the past year. The story reflected the growing importance of Asian and European countries in that mix, with eight of the top 10 announcements coming via direct foreign investment. We also announced the top dealmakers with recipients of NCEDA awards. Other feature stories explained Blythe Development's route of selling to an ESOP and how activist investor Himanshu Shah has outperformed the market by targeting undervalued stocks. Trend stories dived into how overseas flights have boosted RDU's growth, hospital responses to spike in attacks on healthcare workers, fate of the Big 4 NC schools in the ACC, and growth at Novant Health. Power List was Glen Raven's Allen Gant Jr., community spotlight on Catawba County, roundtable topic AI and other sponsored content spotlighting research programs and the charitable side of businesses.
