The departures leave the firm, named for former governors Jim Holshouser and the late Terry Sanford, in the single digits. But the moves don't mean SH is unraveling, says partner A.P. Carlton. We have a vibrant and active practice that will continue. The overtures prompted some soul-searching. Dot-coms are not the only ones shedding jobs to cope with the current economic turbulence.
Management says it was part of an overall reorganization.
But the company already is looking forward. It recently hired two senior-level staff members to focus on international sales and the scientific and medical publishing areas. Tony Telloni, a spokesman for the company, tells Biz that the company previously was operating under specific vertical divisions in industries on which it wanted to focus. There were some obvious areas that could be eliminated. The state's top dog, Gov. Mike Easley, showed up this week, as did Carmen Hooker Buell, secretary of Health and Human Services, to honor the work of Raleigh's Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education in preventing health problems by spreading educational information.