From The North Carolina Budget and Tax Center: North Carolina has the potential to turn a grave challenge into a transformative economic opportunity. Thousands of businesses could disappear over the coming years as baby boomer entrepreneurs enter retirement, threatening to deal a heavy blow to communities across the state. However, by helping many of these […]
From LEAF: LEAF recently provided Carolina Common Enterprise (CCE) with financing to support the Rural Cooperative Development grant funding that CCE was awarded from the USDA to provide strategy and insight into how to prepare rural businesses to convert to cooperative ownership. Carolina Common Enterprise’s mission as a cooperative development center is to assist individuals […]
Electric Violin Shop is a 5-employee instrument sales and repair shop in Durham, North Carolina that serves both retail customers and a global mail-order business. The founder, planning to retire, saw in his employees a level of expertise and commitment to the business that would be impossible to find in an outside buyer. Succession was made […]
From the Electric Violin Shop: May 16th, 2016 looked like any normal busy Monday at Electric Violin Shop. Our small staff worked in concert to address email inquiries and ship e-commerce orders taken over the weekend in between answering the usual barrage of customer phone calls. This group of employees has the day-to-day of running […]
