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Unanet acquires D.C. AI firm
Dulles-based software company Unanet has acquired Washington, D.C.-based GovPro AI, Unanet announced Friday. Unanet did not disclose financial details of the transaction, which it completed in November. Unanet provides project-based enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software solutions for governme[...]
United begins building $16M training center in Fairfax County
United Airlines has started construction on a $16 million inflight training center in Fairfax County, the county’s economic development authority announced Monday. The 20,000-square-foot facility near the airline’s hub at Washington Dulles International Airport, which straddles the Fairfax and Loudoun county lines, is expect[...]
Carolina Structural Systems to establish Greensville plant
Carolina Structural Systems, a company that manufactures custom wood trusses and other structural products, will invest $5.5 million and create an estimated 58 jobs in Greensville County, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday. Based in North Carolina, Carolina Structural Systems plans to construct a 40,000-square-foot manufacturi[...]
Virginia mail service improves; second Trump push to privatize USPS ‘unlikely’
U.S. Postal Service operations have continued to improve, but a bipartisan coalition of state leaders say more work is needed to get the service to a level Virginians deserve. Virginia was ranked at the bottom for on-time mail delivery in October 2023, at the start of the federal government’s fiscal year. Just over 66% of [&he[...]
Bassett Furniture reduces workforce by 40
Bassett Furniture has announced a series of layoffs and retirements in a bid to better match its cost structure to the current rate of business, the home furniture manufacturer and retailer said in a news release Wednesday. This round of reductions, which included layoffs, early retirements and attrition, impacted 40 workers. Si[...]
Glen Allen’s Snagajob is acquired by Boston’s JobGet
JobGet, a Boston-based hourly jobs listings platform, last week announced that it has acquired rival Snagajob in Glen Allen. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, according to Tony Liu, cofounder and CEO of JobGet. Snagajob will operate as a standalone entity within JobGet, creating the United States’ lar[...]
UPDATE: Botanical garden workers vote to unionize
Updated Nov. 22 RICHMOND, Va. – Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden workers voted 37-13 in favor of unionization on Nov. 21. The workers filed for union representation last month amid employee-voiced workplace concerns, which ranged from lack of equipment to safety policies. This is the first group of botanical garden workers to be [...]
Ex-Richmond Fed examiner pleads guilty to insider trading
A former Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond examiner on Tuesday pleaded guilty to committing insider trading and making false statements about his trading to the Richmond Fed. Robert Brian Thompson, 43, of Chesterfield County’s Moseley area, was an examiner and senior manager with supervisory duties for the Richmond Fed, wh[...]
Luck Cos. names president
Richard Luck is now president of Luck Cos., the Goochland-based construction aggregates and decorative stone producer announced Nov. 12 along with several other leadership changes. Richard Luck is the fourth generation of the Luck family to take a leadership role at the company, which has three business units: Luck Stone, Luck E[...]
Armada Hoffler’s next CEO to assume role Jan. 1
Shawn Tibbetts, Armada Hoffler Properties’ president, chief operating officer and CEO designate, will become CEO on Jan. 1, 2025, earlier than previously announced. The Virginia Beach-based real estate investment trust announced in February that it expected to name Tibbetts as CEO in spring 2025, upon current CEO Louis Haddad�[...]
Volkswagen’s U.S. subsidiary names new president and CEO
Rivian Automotive’s Kjell Gruner will become the new president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America on Dec. 12, the Reston-headquartered subsidiary of the German automaker announced Tuesday. Gruner succeeds Pablo Di Si, who “has stepped down … on his own request,” according to a news release. Di Si assumed the role in [...]
ODEC announces next president and CEO
Chris Cosby will become president and CEO of Glen Allen’s Old Dominion Electric Cooperative on Feb. 1, 2025. Cosby succeeds John C. Lee, who has been ODEC’s president and CEO since Sept. 8, 2023, initially serving in an interim capacity. ODEC announced Lee’s retirement, effective Feb. 1, on Monday. He will serve as a senio[...]
