Surry Business

Wayne Farms LLC, the fourth-largest vertically integrated poultry producer in the United States, has once again earned the Vendor Improvement Process (VIP) Cornerstone Award from Gordon Food Service, North America’s largest privately held food-service distributor. The award is the highest honor Gordon gives to its vendors. “The VIP Cornerstone Award is one of the most […]

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The Surrey Bancorp Board of Directors has approved a special cash dividend of 15 cents per share of common stock. The dividend is payable Jan. 2, 2008, to shareholders of record as of Dec. 10, 2007. This is the first time the Surrey Bancorp board has declared a cash dividend. Edward C. “Ted” Ashby, president […]

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Benny L. East’s Mayberry Campground no sooner opened for business just outside Mount Airy off Interstate 74 in Surry County than it picked up a glowing recommendation on RV Park Reviews. “We were one of their first campers,” said an experienced motor-home traveler whose other campground reviews span the nation from California to Pennsylvania and […]

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The Olympia Restaurant in Mount Airy has moved into its new building at 550 Riverside Drive, next to its former location across Linville Road from Renfro Corp. The locally owned restaurant, particularly popular for breakfasts and lunches and well-known for its homestyle cooking (turnip greens, macaroni & cheese and cornbread are daily fixtures on the […]

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Pike Electric Corp. (NYSE: PEC) in Mount Airy, N.C., has added a “2007 Video Annual Report” to the Investor Relations section of its web site. This new feature shows viewers the highlights of Pike Electric’s accomplishments in fiscal 2007. It includes an overview of Pike Electric and the company’s strategic initiatives. The short documentary also […]

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Goodwill Industries will open its new 13,000-square-foot facility at 1986 Rockford St. (on U.S. 601) in Mount Airy at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7. The building has 9,000 square feet of retail space, 1,000 square feet for future workforce training and development services and much more room for processing, repairing and storing donated items. The […]

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A new regional consortium is promoting tourism in Surry County and six neighboring counties in northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia. The first result of this collaboration is a portal web site, BlueRidgeHeartland.com, commissioned by the North Carolina & Virginia Regional Tourism Board on behalf of the Northwest North Carolina/Southwest Virginia Regional Tourism Initiative. The […]

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Surrey Bank & Trust has been named the U.S. Small Business Administration’s “North Carolina Community Bank Lender of the Year” for the fourth time in the past five years. During the fiscal year from Oct. 1, 2006, through Sept. 30, 2007, the Mount Airy, N.C.-based bank was also the most active community bank lender in […]

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Hanesbrands Inc. announced today that its third-quarter 2007 earnings were 23 percent lower than in the same quarter last year, but its revenue rose 3.1 percent. The Winston-Salem-based underwear, outerwear and hosiery manufacturer said spinoff expenses cut into profits. Quarterly profit for the maker of Wonderbra, Champion and Playtex apparel fell to $38.9 million, or […]

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Southern Living magazine’s November issue features the Yadkin Valley American Viticultural Area, including three wineries in Surry County. “The Yadkin Valley is like a treasure hunt,” Kim Myers of Laurel Gray Vineyards told Southern Living writer Annette Thompson. “Each winery is as distinct as its owner’s tastes.” Thompson’s article continues, “Fog settles over the sleepy […]

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