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Meat processor to build $1.7M Prince Edward facility
A halal meat business, 5 Pillar Meats, will invest more than $1.7 million to build an abattoir and red meat processing facility in Prince Edward County, a project expected to create 12 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Thursday. The new building, which will be located on a 3-acre site in the Prince Edward County Business […]
Russell County farm to invest $1M in expanded manufacturing
Goat milk products maker Bates Family Farm will invest roughly $1 million to relocate its manufacturing facility to a Russell County-owned building in Lebanon, a project expected to create 12 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday. “We’re creating agriculture-based jobs and selling Virginia-made products,” Bates Family Farm co-founder and CEO Joseph “Joe” Bates said. T[...]
16 Va. companies receive LGBTQ inclusivity awards
Sixteen Virginia companies received the top score in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index, released in November. Nationally, more than 1,384 companies, including 378 Fortune 500 companies, participated in the organization’s 21st Corporate Equality Index (CEI) survey. Companies that do not participate in the survey but are listed in the CEI are [&hel[...]
DXC replaces CEO, Chair Mike Salvino
DXC Technology has replaced its chairman, president and CEO, Mike Salvino, with interim President and CEO Raul Fernandez, the Ashburn-based Fortune 500 IT company announced Wednesday. Salvino had served as president and CEO since 2019 and as chairman since 2022. He will transition from his role as chairman effective immediately, and remain in an advisory […]
Va. hotel revenues continue to recover from pandemic
Almost all Virginia hotel markets have fully recovered financially from the COVID-19 pandemic, and Hampton Roads continues to outpace Virginia and the U.S. in improvement based on hotel revenue. Virginia hotel revenues through November were 12.7% higher than they were in 2019, according to a report released Tuesday by Old Dominion University’s Dragas Center for […]
Parsons lands $250M classified contract
Parsons won a classified federal contract valued at more than $250 million, the Chantilly-based Fortune 1000 defense contractor announced Tuesday. “This award represents a critical task that the corporation and its acquired companies have been performing for over a decade,” according to a Parsons news release. The contract has a base period of one year […]
Va. casinos report $51.2M in November revenue
Gaming revenues from Virginia’s three casinos totaled $51.2 million in November, according to Virginia Lottery data released Friday. Virginia’s first casino, the Bristol Casino: Future Home of Hard Rock temporary facility, opened July 2022. The Virginia Lottery Board approved HR Bristol’s casino license in April 2022. The Bristol casino reported a little more than $12 […]
3 Va. universities make top 100 in national R&D rankings
The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Virginia Commonwealth University landed in the top 100 in the National Science Foundation’s fiscal 2022 rankings by expenditures on research and development. NSF determines the rankings with data from its annual Higher Education Research and Development Survey, which surveys U.S. colleges and universities that expended at least $150,000 […[...]
JLARC: GO Virginia’s economic impact positive but undefined
The state’s GO Virginia economic development initiative is likely improving regional collaboration and having positive economic impacts, but those can’t be reliably determined, according to a Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission report presented Monday. In 2022, JLARC directed staff to review GO Virginia, which the state government created in 2016. GO Virginia provides economi[...]
NoVa Black Chamber of Commerce hires exec director
LeAnn White became the new executive director of the Northern Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce in November, the Tysons-based chamber announced Thursday. White has more than 20 years of banking sector experience. She was previously assistant vice president and business development officer at Fairfax-based FVCbank, according to her LinkedIn profile. Before that, White was a […]
