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1/23 – Credit Suisse
Today was our final business visit, and we traveled to Cary to visit Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse is a Swiss (hence the name) bank that specializes in private/investment banking as well as wealth management. Since I’m a sociology major, I’m really very uninformed about the topics of business and money management, so I apologize if this post blatantly shows my … Continue Reading
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VF – 1/22
VF Corporation is a conglomerate of over 30 clothing and footwear brands, with products ranging from high-performance sportswear to affordable everyday clothing. Some of the most well-known brands include The North Face, JanSport, Majestic, Lee, Wrangler, and recently Timberland. These individual companies are separated into five independently-run “coalitions” – outdoor & action sports, jeanswear, imagewear, sportswear, and contemporary brands. The … Continue Reading
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Sandvik
Sandvik is a manufacturing and engineering company that employs 49,000 people worldwide and was founded in 1682. Since its founding, Sandvik has only gone two years without reporting profits – this is an incredible statistic that parallels SAS’s 30-some years of increasing profits. Their main product sets deal with specialized alloys, ceramics, and mining/drilling equipment. Sandvik’s customer base in mostly … Continue Reading
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Honda Power Equipment
Today’s visit (1/15) was to the Honda Power Equipment (HPE) facility in Swepsonville, NC. HPE is responsible for producing a majority of the corporation’s small machinery, from die casting to machining to complete assembly and packaging. This includes lawn mowers, snow throwers (I prefer to call them snowblowers, but hey, I guess it’s not my multi-billion dollar company), and other … Continue Reading
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SAS
Today’s visit to SAS in Cary (1/14) showed us a company with a slightly different focus than the last few visits did. The center itself was a complex of 20+ buildings over a huge campus, containing the company’s main headquarters. This is the second trip in a row where the walls of the facility is is covered in original works … Continue Reading
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Center for Creative Leadership
Today’s (1/13) visit was to the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC. The Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement and development of professionals, and teaches effective standards of leadership to employees across the world. Not only did we receive a tour of the facility and a short presentation of the organization”s vision and history, we also … Continue Reading
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Proximity Hotel
Although I wasn’t able to go on today’s (1/10) visit to the Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, I learned a lot about the company’s processes from its website. The hotel itself is named after a cotton mill that was part of the Cone Mills corporation around during the turn of the 20th century. Moses and Ceasar Cone, the two brothers behind … Continue Reading
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Glen Raven
Today’s class visit was to Glen Raven, Inc., a major textile manufacturing plant located only minutes from Elon’s campus. During the presentation, we learned that the company was founded in 1880 by John Gant and has produced produced products ranging from athletic apparel and jerseys to military gear and commercial grade sails. Glen Raven is currently split into three supplementing … Continue Reading
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