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Honeyfied: IES helps bee company grow
Business North Carolina magazine named its 2009 Small Business of the Year* in December.
The winner? A northwestern North Carolina beekeeping company that received assistance from the Industrial Extension Service, which is part of the College of Engineering.
The Brushy Mountain Bee Farm, located in Moravian Falls, NC, doubled its sales and workforce over the course of two years, thanks in part to lean manufacturing principles taught by IES specialists.
With the IES assistance, the company reported more than $2 million in increased
sales and doubled its workforce to 50 employees. Sales are 81 percent higher
than in 2007, and more than 24,000 customers have shopped at the company in person,
through mail order, or online over the past two years, according to the magazine. 
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