BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE
GOVERNOR
MANUFACTURING MAKES IT REAL WEEK
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, manufacturing is the engine that drives North Carolina's economy and is vital to the
state' s prosperity and progress; and
WHEREAS, North Carolina is first in the Southeast and fifth in the United States in the
manufacturing of goods and products; and
WHEREAS, manufacturing employs more North Carolinians than any other business segment,
more than half a million people, at wages higher than average; and
_WHEREAS, products made by manufacturers account for 98 percent of exports; and
WHEREAS, leading companies have established a presence in North Carolina because of our
State' s commitment to supporting our manufacturing base; and
WHEREAS, North Carolina manufacturers produce a wide variety of products, from circuit
boards to chips and salsa; and
WHEREAS, the State of North Carolina will promote and celebrate manufacturing the week of
September 27 through October 1 as the North Carolina State University Industrial Extension Service
crisscrosses the State, stopping at manufacturing sites to celebrate North Carolina products and the people
who make them;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE, Governor of the State of North Carolina,
do hereby proclaim September 27 through October 1, 2010, as "MANUFACTURING MAKES IT
REAL WEEK" in North Carolina, and urge all citizens to recognize the importance of manufacturing to
our State' s economy and well-being, and to take pride in the wide diversity of products made in North
Carolina.
BEVERLY EA YES PERDUE
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North
Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this twenty-second day of September in the year of our Lord two thousand and
ten, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fifth.