Recent Articles from Katherine Schulte
Canadian frozen food company to create 67 jobs in Warren County
Montreal-based Nature’s Touch Frozen Foods LLC will spend $40.3 million to expand in Warren County, creating 67 jobs, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday. Harrisonburg-based InterChange Group Inc. will build a 126,000-square-foot facility for Nature’s Touch. The company will import raw materials directly to the new facility for processing and distribution. In 2014, Nature’s Touch establishe[...]
Va. expands Elizabeth River Tunnels toll relief program
The commonwealth of Virginia and Elizabeth River Crossings OpCo LLC have partnered to expand the Toll Relief Program, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Monday. Elizabeth River Crossings, partly owned by Spanish company Abertis Infraestructuras S.A, owns Elizabeth River Tunnels, and the program, which was established in 2016, will reduce Downtown and Midtown Tunnel tolls for those […]
Va. new employment claims rise slightly
Virginia’s new unemployment claims rose by about 19% last week, the Virginia Employment Commission reported Friday. For the filing week ending Nov. 6, Virginians filed 1,290 new claims, an increase of 202 from the week before. Continued claims totaled 24,922, a decrease of 6,642 from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year, […]
CACI wins $785M Army contract
Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor CACI International Inc. won a potentially $785 million contract to support the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), the company announced Tuesday. Under the five-year single-award task order for Special Operations Forces Emerging Threats, Operations and Planning Support, CACI will provide expertise in integrated information warfare and electronic warfa[...]
Metal fabricator to add 22 jobs in Buchanan
Buchanan County-based metal fabrication company Skyline Fabricating Inc. will spend more than $675,000 to build a 25,000-square-foot production facility in the county’s Southern Gap area, creating 22 jobs, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday. The facility will help Skyline Fabricating meet increased demand for steel and aluminum fabricated products and its expanded customer base outside Virgini[...]
Stephen Moret to leave VEDP
Virginia Economic Development Partnership President and CEO Stephen Moret will leave VEDP to become president and CEO of Indianapolis-based Strada Education Network in January, Strada and VEDP announced Wednesday. Moret expects that VEDP’s board will appoint Executive Vice President Jason El Koubi to serve as interim CEO and a nationwide search will be conducted for […]
Custom Ink acquires corporate swag platform
Fairfax County-based online custom apparel company CustomInk LLC announced Monday that it had acquired New York City-based Swag.com, a platform for corporate swag and gifting. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “With Swag.com, we’ll help organizers and organizations meet the really important need of sustaining a sense of connection and community no matter […]
BWXT promotes chief strategy officer to CFO
Robb A. LeMasters will be promoted to senior vice president and chief financial officer of Lynchburg-based nuclear components and fuel supplier BWX Technologies Inc. (BWXT) on Nov. 15. “We are extremely fortunate to have someone internal to BWXT who is fully prepared to assume the role of CFO,” BWXT President and CEO Rex Geveden said […]
Rush Street Gaming announces Portsmouth casino general manager
Chicago-based developer and gaming operator Rush Street Gaming announced Monday that it has named Roy Corby as the general manager for the upcoming $300 million Rivers Casino Portsmouth. “We’re excited to expand our Rivers Casino family of market-leading destination casinos and to help launch Virginia’s new casino industry,” Rush Street Gaming CEO Greg Carlin said […]
Huntington Ingalls Industries names president of cyber warfare group
Newport News-based Fortune 500 military shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) named Grant Hagen president of its technical solutions division’s Cyber and Electronic Warfare business group, it announced Monday. “I’m confident in Grant’s vision to successfully lead our Cyber and EW team. With his exceptional expertise in business operations, I’m excited to see what this team [&he[...]