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Business Environment

2.5%
# 1 State # 4 Best Corporate

FOR TECH Tax

BUSINESS CLIMATE Lowest in the
Southeast U.S.

Sources: Site Selection Magazine, Business Facilities Magazine

and Towch, a towel and pouch combo Business Spotlight:
popular with disc golfers. U.S. Chemical Storage
Wilkesboro-based U.S. Chemical Storage
The company also focuses on conservation has since 1983 specialized in helping
by using its leftover bits of cotton to make
Bee Smoker Fuel. The idea was hatched clients safely store chemicals to meet global
when an employee recognized the smell of standards and regulations. Their clients
burning scrap cotton as the same smell from range from biotechnology companies, the
his childhood keeping honeybees. Today, oil industry, automotive manufacturing,
Bee Smoker Fuel is a well-accepted brand by pharmaceutical, agriculture, hospitals,
beekeepers and apiaries. militaries, and others.

28 Wilkes Chamber of Commerce