Business Briefs
N.C. Mutual Insurance Comes
Back To Winston-Salem
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By LORi MCELRATH
Advextiting Executive
Back by popular demand. North
Carolina Mutual Insurance Com-,
pany returned to Winston-Salem this
month.
"I'm glad to be back home.
You've missed us and we have
missed you," said W.A. Barber,
manager for the Winston-Salem
branch. After being closed for two
years, N.C. Mutual reopened its
Winston-Salem branch on Friday,
Feb., 5, at 2 p.m. The branch is
located at 509 E.3rd St.
N.C. Mutual first set up shop in
Winston-Salem over 80 years ago,
and became an integral part of the
African-American community. ,
when the local branch was forced to
close its doOrs in late 1990 because
of a merger with the branch in
Greensboro, a tremendous void was
left in the community. "It's amaz
ing what can happen when people
come together," said Ferris Cole
man, district manager for Greens
boro. It only took six months to
reopen the branch that had been
country. With branches in 22 states,
it is also the largest black insurance
company in the world.
"If you give people good ser
vice, they're going to come to you,"
said Robert Norris, executive area
manager. "We educate people on
"If you give people good service,
they're going to come to you,"
? Robert Norris
closed for two years.
"For N.C. Mutual the reopen
ing of the Winston-Salem branch is
a tremendous source of pride," said
Jim Parrish, executive vice president
for the company.
Black-owned and operated,
N.C. Mutual is one of the top ten
life insurance companies in the
insurance policies so they know
exactly what they have, a quality
policy."
N.C. Mutual Insurance has been
in business for 95 years and is con
tinuing to grow: The company is
making changes in the way it oper
ates, updating product lines, and hir
ing qualified people. Before being
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Pictured (from I. to r.) are WA. Barber , manager for Winston-Salem branch , and Jim Parrish, executive vice
president for N.C. Mutual Insurance.
closed, the local branch was one of again. African.- American household in
N.C. Mutual's most successful "Our goal is to have at least one Winston-Salem." said Parrish. "At
branches, and is predicted to be N.C. Mutual policy in every N.C. Mutual, the feeling is mutual."
Faces And Places
Rufus B. Easier, JiYr
vice president of TWM Services
Inc., an institutional industrial
food service management corpora
tion in Greensboro, announces the
following staff additions: Ida L.
Bracken, director of sales and
marketing; Kevin J. Hawkins,
staff accountant, and Zebedee
"Zeb" Ansley, manager of
Wayne's Restaurant and Lounge
(operating by TWM in the Best
Western Regency Inn, Winston
Salem.)
Bracken graduated with hon
ors from Shaw University and was
formerly employed by the Char
lotte Area Business League as
marketing director. She has been
^acti vel^involved tn the Greens
boro business community for a
number of years.
Hawkins is a 1991 graduate
of Wake Forest University, where
he received his bachelor of science
degree in accounting. Hawkins has
advanced training and experience
in the field of computers. Ansley
is a graduate of Tennessee State
University, where he majored in
foods and nutrition. Ansley has
served as a manager at other
TWM operated facilities, director
of food services for the United
States Postal Authority, Chicago,
111, and acted as an independent
entrepreneur in the food
service/catering industry.
Ida Hrackin
Feb. 15 is the deadline for busi
nessesj o re turn t h e j r 199 2 Eco -
nonnc Census questionnaires, sent
by the U.S. Census Bureau to more
than 3.5 million American busi
nesses in December. This is the
most comprehensive economic cen
sus ever undertaken. For the first
time, activity in finance, insurance,
real estate, communications, and
utilities will be measured, in addi
tion to sectors traditionally covered:
retail and wholesale trade, service
industries, transportation, manufac
turers, mining, and construction
industries. Censuses now measure
nearly 98 percent of all economic
activity in the nation.
Taken every five years, the
economic census identifies trends in
business activity that are vital to
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measuring and encouraging growth
in the American economy.
Why participate in the Eco
nomic Census? First, firms which
receive the census forms are
required by law to respond. But
more importantly, the Economic
Census can be ot great benefit.
The information provided in
the census is absolutely confiden
tial. By law, only sworn Census
Bureau employees may see individ
ual responses, which are also
exempt from the Freedom of Infor
mation Act.
Std^stics from the 1992 Eco
nomic Cinisus will be published in
more than 500 printed reports and
in formats for computers, including
compact discs (CD-ROMs).
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