Business Briefs
New directory available
New and improved Black Business
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Directory offers more
fey YVETTE N. FREEMAN
f luhronide Staff Writer
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The Winston-Salem Chronicle has made some well-deserved
changes in its annual Directory of Minority Businesses, including a
new upscale look for the 1991 edition, which became available last
week.
This year, instead of being in the format of a tabloid insert with
!r the weetyy newspaper, the directory is now in the form of a glossy
\ I rfflfgazine-style booklet, comparable to Ebony, Cosmopolitan and
; " other large-scale publications.
j !; Chronicle Publisher Ernie Pitt says he decided to change the
i !! look of the directory because "The magazine format lasts a lot
! .J longer. It's easier to handle and I think it's more attractive."
He added that another reason for the change was that "we wanted
!! to produce something first-class, that those businesses in it would be
" proud to be in it, and would be proud to refer it to others."
The Directory first came out four years ago, when Pitt felt that
: the, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County area needed a listing of business
men owned by African-Americans, for people in the community who
k -wanted to utilize their services, but didn't know where to go.
23; "We saw, as did other minority business agencies, a need to have
a listing of all the minority businesses, black-owned businesses in
the city," he said.
Local businesses were notified of the directory through adver
tisements that were run in the Chronicle and flyers that were sent
out. Any African-American business can be listed in the directory
for. free, the owners just have to notify the Chronicle of their exis
tence.
Local and national businesses, as well as governmental agencies
*lso have the option of taking out paid advertisements in the directo
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ry; and social, medical and educational institutions can run public
service announcements.
Copies of theUirectory will also be sent out to all of the minority
recruitment agencies and major purchasing departments of large
companies in the city, as well as the city government.
Each year the number of African-American businesses in the
Piedmont businessmen and women, as well as the rest of the
community, should find the new Black Business Directory
extremely useful when searching out the services of minority
businesses.
Mundy Realty honored
by East Area Council
The East Area Council of the
Greater Winston-Salem Chamber of
Commerce presented Mundy Realty
Company with its April "Business
of 4.he Month Award," during its
monthly membership meeting at the
Library Science. She taught busi
ness classes and was a school librar
ian before getting her real estate
brokers license. She was on the
Board of Directors of the Winston
Salem Multiple Listing Service and
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Baptist Church.
The East Area Council, which
was formed by the Chamber to
meet the needs of area minority
owned businesses, recognizes the
accomplishments of a local mirmri
better business environment and
offers services to strengthen exist
ing businesses, to encourage small
business creation and growth and to
promote the area as a destination for
conventions and visitors.
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Pictured (left to right) are: Nancy Mershon, Chamber; Zack Wall, East Area Council; Carolyn
HardyMoridy Realty ; James Grace, Chair-East Area Council; and Rita Naegie, Stoffer.
F. Roger Page Business and Tech
nology Center.
Mundy Realty, located at 2001
New Walkertown Road, was started
by Carolyn Hardy in June 1976. It
is a full service real estate company
specializing in residential sales.
The firm also lists and sells com
mercial and industrial properties
and vacant land. ?
Presently five full time agents
arc employed by Mundy, but future
plans include hiring two additional
agctits to accommodate iU> giowiitg
clientele.
Hardy graduated from Bennett
College in Greensboro with a
degree in Business Education and
currently serves on the Professional
Standards Committee of the Local
Board of Realtors. Hardy has been
a consistent Multi Million dollar
producer.
Community service is a high
priority for Hardy who served as
PTA president for Old Town Ele
mentary, Northwest Junior High
School and Mt. Tabor High School.
In addition, she has served on vari
ous school committees including
the School Improvement Team at
Mi. Taboi High School. She has
been on the Board of Directors of
the Salvation Army Boy's Council,
the local YMCA and is an active
member of the United Metropolitan
ty firm each month. Monthly win
ners are eligible for the Business of
the Year Award presented in the fall
at an Annual Banquet. Stouffer
Winston Plaza Hotel provides din
ner for two at the Quill Restaurant
and a plaque to the monthly recipi
ents. For more information on
Council activities, contact Nancy
Mershon at 725-2361.
The Greater Winston-Salem
Chamber of Commerce is a leading
business organization in Winston
Saluii and Forsyth County, repre
senting more than 2,000 area busi
nesses who are committed to
increasing economic development
in the region. It works to promote a
Free investment
workshop is scheduled
"Investing in Mutual Funds/' a free workshop to help
people understand how to invest in the stock market by
using no-load mutual funds they contact by calling toll
free 800 numbers, will be presented four times at three
different library sites beginning tonight The first work
shop is scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight at the Rural Hall
Library. Next week, the workshop will be repeated at 7
p.m. Wednesday, at the Kernersville Library and then
twice at the main library downtown in Winston-Salem at
6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 30 and 10 a.m. Saturday*
June 1.
Led by Dr. Larry Hungerford, Director of the WSSU
Center for Fxonomic Education, the workshop focuses on
long-term investment success that can begin with
amounts as small as $25 or S50 a month. Dr. Hungcrford
will explain how $40 a month invested for 20 years can
grow to more than $56,000 (based on average stock mar
ket returns). He will also discuss ways to lower invest
ment risks and how to select mutual funds
The workshop's overall purpose is to help investors
develop a systematic long-term investment strategy, using
mutual funds, that will provide money for retirement or to
pay for a child's college education. Over' 2,000 people
have attended Dr. Hungerford's previous investing work
shops during the past five years at local libraries. Printed
materials are given to everyone who attends; if workshop
participants woufd like to keep the materials there is a $5
change. (Call the libraries for more details.)
i
? | directory has increased, as mwe and more established African-Amer
ican entrepreneurs^ ave fok? (Jut about the directory, and others
, .opened up businesses.
This year the directory, which is>.updated annually, boasts nearly
500 listings of the names, addresses, and phone numbers, of local
African-American businesses, ranging from doctors and lawyers* to
hairdressers and mechanics, plus many more professions. * :
But Pitt says there are still more minority businesses in the city
that are not listed. * \ ..
"We estimate that there are 700. Our directory contains about
500. So we still have a few more to dig up, and we are going to dig
them up," he stated. ' .??
Also, beginning this year, the new upscale directory costs $3. to
cover production expenses, where in the past, the booklet was free
and inserted into the Chronicle newspaper. v '
I The 1991 Minority Business Directory is available at the Win -
ston-Salem Chronicle office, the East Area Council; and varipus
other locations in the city. ?
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EAST WINSTON
1. Model Pharmacy
2. Pie'N'Pay (Claremont)
3. Laundry Center (Claremont)
5 Etna Gas
6. Great American Foods
7. Smith Cleaners
8. Reynolds Health Center
9. Sunrise Towers
NORTHEAST
10. Merita Breadbox
OGBURN STATION
34. Laundry Center (Old Rural
33. Paragon Food Center
NORTHWEST
12. Minit Market (13th & Liberty)
13. Salem Seafood
14. Fairview Cleaners
15. Silver Front Cleaners
36. Etna Gas
37. N.W. Blvd. Pantry
38. Hazel's Beauty
39. Real Food Bakery
40. Ray's Fish
41. Joe's Shop Rite (Patterson)
42. Great American Foods
43. A Cleaner World
-44; Brown's Produce
66. Paw's Grocery
67. ? Amoco (Fourth & Broad) .
Hall Rd.) 68. Hop-In fFirst St.)
69. Food Fair (First St.)
70. Baptist Hospital
? 7h Amoco (Cloverdate)
Kroger
Hop-In (Stratford Rd.)
Papers St Paperbacks (Hancs Mall)
Crown Drugs (Hanes Mall)
Forsyth Hospital
72.
73.
74.
75.
76.
SOUTHSIDE
77. Rainbow News
78. Crown Drugs (Peters Creek)
45.
46.
Ervin's Beauty
Boj angles
ront Cleaners 4 ? -i
Chf?sS?
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77 Tftrfk
16. Gulf Gas
17. Mama Chris
18. Jamal's Grocery
19. Chandler's ,
20. Westbrook's
21. Minit Market (27th & Liberty)
22. Chick's Drive Inn
23. Mack's Grocery
24. 3 Girls (Northampton)
25. Shop Rite (Northampton)
26. A Cleaner World (Carver Rd.)
27.. Carver Food
28. Joe's Shop Rite (Bowen) ,
29 Garrett's (31 1)
30. Wilco Gas (311)
31. Garden Harvest
3 2. Bernard's
33. Jones' Grocery
47.
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
65.
Northside Fish Market
Eckerd Drugs
1 Stop Food (Akron Dr.)
Food Fair (Patterson Ave. Exit)
Motel 6
Winn-Dixie
Tickled Pink Cleaners (Cherry St.)
Food Lion (University Plaza)
Fast Fare (Cherry St.)
Maytag Laundry (Cherry St.)
Forest Hills Curb Market
RJR World Headquarters
Jimmy the Greek
Fast Fare (30ih St.)
Super X Drugs
KAW (Coliseum)
Golden Comb
Best Bookstore (Reynolda Shop. Ctr
Mr. T
available
at these
locations:
Marketplace
10. Gulf Gas (S. Broad St.)
11. Gardea Harvest
82. Post Office (Waughtown Station),
83. Hop-In (Stadium Dr.)
84. Revco Drugs
85. Belview House
86. Gold Fish Bowl
87. Joe's Shop Rite (S. Main)
DOWNTOWN
88. Chronicle Office
89. Lincoln Barber
90. Post Office
91. Benton Convention Center
92. Cecelia's (Hyatt House)
93. Rite-Aid
94; Revco
95. NCNB Building
96. Wachovia (Main St.)
97 RJR Plaza .
98. Brown's Restaurant
) 99. Forsyth Seafood
100. Sanitary Barber Shop