Raleigh's industries include electrical, medical, electronic, telecommunications equipment, clothing apparel, food processing, paper products, and pharmaceuticals. Raleigh is part of North Carolina's Research Triangle, a center of researching and textiles. The city is a major retail shipping point for eastern North Carolina and a wholesale distributing point for food stores.
Other companies that are based or operate in Raleigh include: Siemens Power Transportation & Distribution, Progress Energy, Red Hat, IBM, Asea Brown Boveri, First Citizens Bank, Golden Corral, RBC Centura, Lenovo, Cisco, Carquest, Nortel Networks, and Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.
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