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Breeden Construction moves HQ, triples office space
Henrico County-based Breeden Construction has moved its headquarters office to an 8,100-square-foot space near Henrico Doctors’ Hospital — tripling its previous office space, the company announced this week. Financial terms of the move were not disclosed. The Class A office space is located at 1700 Bayberry Court, Suite 200, and includes private offices and meeting […]
Logistics companies try to weather supply chain storm
As supply chains become disrupted and demand for essential products such as grocery items, paper goods and personal protective equipment has skyrocketed, Virginia logistics companies are still operating quasi-business-as-usual as they’re also taking on new challenges. “There’s not a general increase in employment at this point. We’re working with the teams that we have,” says [&h[...]
‘People have to start thinking about the relaunch plan’
Virginia Business virtually sat down with Mathieu Stevenson, CEO of Glen Allen-based hourly online staffing platform Snagajob, and Tammy Feaster, owner of the Spherion staffing services location in Winchester, to see how the staffing industry has weathered the coronavirus crisis. This is part of an ongoing series of conversations with Virginians about how their work […]
Averett University names new VP and CFO
Averett University announced Thursday that Don Aungst has become the university’s new vice president and chief financial and operating officer. He started at the Danville college this month. Aungst was most recently the CFO at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. He has more than 30 years of experience in higher education leadership positions. He has also […]
Va. Beach-based DroneUp acquires AeroVista Innovations
Virginia Beach-based end-to-end drone pilot service company DroneUp LLC announced Thursday it has acquired Glenview, Illinois-based AeroVista Innovations LLC (AVI). The merged company will rebrand as The DroneUp Training Academy. DroneUp acquired AVI’s assets, employees and customer contracts. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. AVI was founded in 2016 and provides in-ho[...]
Reston-based IT company names new CFO
Reston-based information technology company Contegix announced Thursday that it has named Mike Dunn as its new chief financial officer. Dunn was most recently the CFO of systems integrator and managed hosting provider NeoSystems LLC. He has also previously been CFO of Siteworx and Recovery Point Systems. In his new role, he will be responsible for […]
NOVA Educational Foundation receives $1M donation
The Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation (NOVA Foundation) announced Thursday it has received a $1 million donation from Debra Coffman Howe of Palm Beach, Florida. The funding will go to Howe’s existing endowment fund for NOVA nursing student scholarships and also to the NOVA COVID-19 Emergency Student Aid Fund. Howe was a NOVA nursing […]
In one week, Va. unemployment has doubled
A record-breaking 112,497 Virginians filed initial claims for unemployment last week, the Virginia Employment Commission reported Thursday. That’s an increase of 66,220 claimants since last week, when 46,277 people filed for benefits. In the last two weeks, more Virginians have filed for unemployment than in the entire previous year. Nearly 159,000 Virginians filed claims in […]
Va. ER physician spearheads intubation PPE production
Virginia College of Emergency Physicians President Dr. Scott Hickey turned to the owners of contracting companies in Powhatan — Michael Potter of Village Building Co. Inc. and David Dowdy of Interior 2000 — to produce boxes designed to protect emergency health care workers while they intubate patients with COVID-19. Designed by Dr. Hsien Yung Lai […]
Kroger to hire more than 800 in Virginia during COVID-19 crisis
Kroger Mid-Atlantic, which owns grocery stores in Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio, has more than 1,500 immediate openings — 825 of which are in Virginia, Kroger corporate affairs manager Allison McGee says. The mid-Atlantic division has already hired more than 500 people — including people from the restaurant and hospitality industries — to […]
