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Joshua Burk UScellular has promoted Joshua Burk to agent distribution sales support specialist for the company’s retail locations across eastern North Carolina, according to a news release. Burk is responsible for supporting both the UScellular agent development managers along with agent owners, officials said in the release. He previously was a service technician at the company’s Greenville location. Burk, who lives in Wilmington, has more than 17 years of industry experience, officials said. “I am excited for Joshua assist our agent team, and I’m confident that his leadership skil...

By Jessica Maurer, posted May 7, 2021 MEMA’S CHICK’N’ & RIBS | MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESS MYRA MCDUFFIE, CO-OWNER| YEAR FOUNDED: 2017 | EMPLOYEES: 5. (Photo by Erin Costa) It’s been said that the road to success is always under construction, and the saying rings true for the McDuffie family.   James and Myra McDuffie opened MeMa’s Chick’n’ & Ribs in Burgaw in 2017, serving up classic Southern cuisine and smoked meats prepared from family recipes passed down from James’ mother, Mary, also known as MeMa.   The restaurant and catering service quickly gain...

Wilmington’s Cargo District continues to grow as companies join the area and others expand within it.   Transcend Bookkeeping & Finance outgrew its space at Coworx in the Cargo District, moving across the street to another district building in Suite 201 at 1607 Queen St.   Business partners and Transcend founders Jenna May and Thomas Bruin have watched as the Cargo District has also grown over the past couple years they’ve been there.   New businesses have been joining the district, an area that incorporates cargo containers into some of its buildings and includes parts of Queen...

In April, Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher Scientific announced that it would purchase Wilmington-based PPD for $17.4 billion (Photo c/o PPD) The growth Wilmington-headquartered PPD Inc. has experienced in the Port City is an economic driver for the region, local economic development leaders say.   On top of the global contract research organization’s large tax base in New Hanover County and its 1,800 local employees, it can also lay claim to having a big role in spawning the region’s clinical research organization (CRO) cluster.   “Without PPD’s visionary leadership and lon...