Cotton Inc. hosted a grand opening and ribbon cutting for their new world headquarters and research facility in Cary, N.C., this April. The decision to build the new headquarters came in 1996, after Hurricane Fran caused Crabtree Creek to flood their old Crabtree Valley facility in Raleigh, causing $750,000 in damages. According to president J. Berrye Worsham III, "Most of the time that creek behaves and stays in its banks. But when it flooded the last time, the water was knee-deep—and most of our equipment sits on the floor."
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