Commerce and Employment
See also: List of companies in CharlotteAmong the largest employers in the area (listed in order by number of local employees) are:
- Wells Fargo
- Carolinas Healthcare System
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
- Bank of America
- City of Charlotte
- US Airways
- Duke Energy
- Presbyterian Healthcare
- Lowe's
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- AT&T
- Belk
- Family Dollar
- Food Lion
- IBM in University Research Park
- Advance Auto Parts
Companies with headquarters in the region include Bank of America, Belk, BellSouth Telecommunications, Bojangles', The Compass Group, Carolina Beverage Corporation Inc. (makers of Sun Drop and Cheerwine), Duke Energy, Family Dollar, Food Lion, Harris Teeter, Lance, Inc, LendingTree, Lowe's, Meineke Car Care Centers, Muzak, Nucor, Transbotics, Royal & SunAlliance (USA), Time Warner Cable (a business unit of Fortune 500 company Time Warner), and Wachovia.
Charlotte has gained fame as the second largest banking and finance center in the U.S., and the area's orientation towards emerging industries is seen in the success of the University Research Park (the 7th largest research park in the country) and the redevelopment of part of the Pillowtex site in Kannapolis as a biotech research facility featuring the participation of University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University and North Carolina State University.
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