Every quarter, The Business Growth Index is published in partnership between UNC Charlotte and the Charlotte Chamber. As stated by the Chamber, the publication is “an initiative designed to provide analysts and decision makers in the private and public sectors with timely information about the current and near-term health of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg economy”. Said another [...]
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The Economic Crystal Ball in Charlotte
Posted in Research + Statistics, Trends, Uncategorized, tagged Business Growth Index, Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Charlotte Economy, Darton Group, jobs in Charlotte, UNC Charlotte on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NEWSWEEK Ranks Duke’s Jim Rogers Among “50 Most Powerful People In the World”
Posted in Charlotte Region, In the News, Uncategorized, tagged Darton Group, Duke Energy, Global Elite, Jim Rogers, Newsweek on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NEWSWEEK magazine is kicking off the first issue of 2009 with a list of the “Global Elite – the 50 most powerful people in the world”. And who made the list at #50 – just 3 positions behind Oprah Winfrey? Charlotte’s own Jim Rogers, the Chairman, President and CEO of Duke Energy. Duke is one [...]
The FORTUNE 500 in the Carolinas
Posted in Research + Statistics, Uncategorized, tagged Darton Group, Fortune 500 Companies, North Carolina Fortune 500, South Carolina Fortune 500 on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The DARTON team likes FORTUNE magazine’s online rankings of the USA’s top 500 corporations by state. Here in the Carolinas, the Tar Heel state is home to 26 of the FORTUNE 500 corporations. 4 additional firms claim the Palmetto state as home. View North Carolina’s roster of FORTUNE 500 companies at ://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2008/states/NC.html. See the South Carolina [...]
Factoids R Us
Posted in Research + Statistics, tagged Big Mac Index, Darton Group, Harvard Business School, NationMaster.com on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We like our factoids here at DARTON GROUP. And we like NationMaster.com, a fun, fact-based site that allows users to compare statistics on countries across the globe. Wondering who holds the title of “richest” country on the planet? (It’s not who you think it is!). Wondering how the world’s countries rank using the “Big Mac” [...]
AFP and Wachovia Recognize Charlotte-Based Belk
Posted in In the News, Uncategorized, tagged 2008 AFP Pinnacle Grand Prize Winner, Association for Financial Professionals, Belk, Cash management strategies, Darton Group, Risk Management, Risk Mitigation, Treasury Strategies, Wachovia on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kudos to Belk. Based in Charlotte, Belk is the largest privately held department store in the USA with more than 300 stores and annual sales of $3.8 billion. The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) and Wachovia recently awarded Belk the 2008 AFP Pinnacle Award Grand Prize Winner. The Grand Prize recognizes innovative cash management solutions [...]
DARTON GROUP Welcomes Scott Sterling
Posted in In the News, Uncategorized, tagged Charlotte Accounting and Finance, Darton Group, Mark Weber, Scott Sterling on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are growing! DARTON GROUP announces the addition of Scott Sterling to our Charlotte team. Scott joins DARTON in a Business Development role. “Scott is simply one of the best in the industry,” noted Mark Weber, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at DARTON. “In addition to his five years of experience in the financial recruiting industry, Scott brings eight years [...]
“Back to Basics” for Middle Market Companies
Posted in Research + Statistics, tagged American Express, Cash management strategies, CFO Research Services, CFO strategies, Darton Group, Middle Market strategies on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who know our internal team here at DARTON GROUP, it is understood that we place a priority focus on serving the needs of mid-market companies in the greater Charlotte region. CFO Research Services, in collaboration with American Express, surveyed 129 qualified USA finance execs last month with a focus on the middle market (95% [...]
Creating the USA’s Largest Financial Services Company
Posted in In the News, tagged Bank of America, Bank of America Assets, Darton Group, Financial Week, Merrill Lynch, Tim Catts on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Bank of America, it is time to flex its new muscle. So says Tim Catts at Financial Week in an article posted on Friday (12.5.08) about Charlotte’s own Bank of America. Now that the bank’s shareholders have officially approved its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, Tim writes that it is now time for Bank of America [...]
DARTON Bell Ringers Today in South Charlotte
Posted in Community Service, tagged Darton Group, Mark Weber, Online Red Kettle Campaign, Red Kettle Campaign, Rochelle Rivas, Salvation Army of Greater Charlotte on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Planning to do some holiday shopping today in metro Charlotte? Help a great cause and donate your spare change to the friendly bell ringers who are assisting with the Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettle Campaign, the oldest annual charitable fundraiser of its kind in the USA. The children of DARTON founders Rochelle Rivas and Mark Weber are ringing [...]
“There’s always going to be people hiring”
Posted in In the News, Job Search Strategies, Research + Statistics, Workplace Trends, tagged Charlotte jobs, Darton Group, Growth industries, Industries Hiring, J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Job Search Strategies on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday (12.05.08), the Associated Press confirmed what we, at DARTON GROUP, know to be true. Despite the continued challenges in the economy, USA businesses continue to hire. The AP yesterday quoted Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrick Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, as follows: “It’s a big economy; 350 million [...]
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