WILMINGTON -- Cape Fear Bank's board of directors rejected
shareholder Maurice Koury's offer to buy the bank holding company
for $12 a share--a 13% premium at the time of the offer. Koury,
president of Carolina Hosiery Mills in Burlington, has clashed with Cape
Fear's management over compensation and other issues.
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