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manufacturing, and auto finance, which were operated under the name Fuqua
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Industries, selling stock he had in the company. In 1993, Fuqua paid $ 1 million to Fuqua Industries to remove his name from the company he had started, and was no longer connected to. His former company renamed itself to Actava Group, which later
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Center to implement cardiac education programs for patients, their families, and the community, and in 2008 the J.B. Fuqua Trust awarded a $ 5 million bequest, which represented the largest estate gift to
Piedmont Hospital in its 102-year history.
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conservation and plant use. It contains 16,000 square feet of display area under glass, with priority given to plant groups that are rare, threatened, or endangered.
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