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Best Places to Work in Virginia 2025
For the 15th year, Virginia Business is pleased to present the Best Places to Work in Virginia list, produced in collaboration with Pennsylvania-based Best Companies Group, a division of our mutual parent company, BridgeTower Media. This year, 147 companies were chosen for inclusion in the 2025 Best Places to Work in Virginia co[...]
Virginia Best Places to Work 2025: Large Company Winners
# 1 LARGE COMPANY PATRIOT GROUPS INTERNATIONAL www.patgroupi.com Patriot Group International (PGI) stands out as a top employer due to its commitment to a flexible, team-oriented and mission-focused workplace. The company provides critical services to the U.S. government, with a strong emphasis on employee well-being, includin[...]
Virginia Best Places to Work 2025: Midsize Company Winners
# 1 MIDSIZE COMPANY THUNDERCAT TECHNOLOGY www.thundercattech.com ThunderCat Technology, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), is recognized for its innovative approach to solving complex problems in the data center through services in data storage, networking, cyber security and cloud transformations. The com[...]
Virginia Best Places To Work 2025: Small Company Winners
#1 SMALL BUSINESS SPURRIER GROUP www.spurriergroup.com Spurrier Group fosters a collaborative and supportive environment where employees thrive. The company unites a diverse group of women, from new college graduates to grandmothers, who work together to deliver best-in-class performance media campaigns. Spurrier Group’s u[...]
Shenandoah County takes long view on economic development
Shenandoah County hopes a $100,000 study is an early step toward welcoming new businesses and jobs. “We know that it takes time to develop property,” Jenna French, the county’s director of tourism and economic development, says. “We are planning for the future.” The county hired the Timmons Group to identify possib[...]
Health care systems are in their building era
At some medical centers around Virginia, construction workers donning hard hats are nearly as prevalent this year as medical staff wearing scrubs. From smaller-scale renovations to new hospitals with billion-dollar price tags, health care systems are undertaking a wide range of projects to respond to growing (and aging) populati[...]
Wealth advisers reveal ways to avoid bumps
Financial markets have been remarkably resilient this year, with various stock indexes notching new record highs, even as a dizzying number of headlines from Washington, D.C., seem poised to whipsaw investors. Uncertainty persists about how the economy — and, by virtue, financial markets — will fare, given President Donald T[...]
Digital tools improve workflow, efficiency for CPAs
When David Chase started working as a certified public accountant 25 years ago, he and his colleagues kept documents in big paper binders, the kind high school students commonly used in the 1970s and 1980s. “The client would give you their paperwork, you’d make copies, put them in three-ring binders and work with pencils[...]
Virginia 500 spotlight : JOE BENEVENTO
WHAT I WAS LIKE IN HIGH SCHOOL: I was fairly social and outgoing, but I also captained the chess team and competed in the state championship. HOW I BALANCE MY WORK AND PERSONAL LIVES: Since starting out in my career 20 years ago at Goldman Sachs, work has never really been a [9 to 5] job […]
SWCC to expand workforce development programs
Southwest Virginia Community College in Cedar Bluff is expanding its workforce development programs this year with the help of three grants totaling $307,142 from the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority. These grants will support the college’s existing automotive technology and workforce development scholarsh[...]
Danville-Pittsylvania authority invests in history
Using a $1.89 million loan from the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority, Danville and Pittsylvania County officials plan to purchase about 289 acres adjacent to the Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill. Members of the Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority (RIFA) unanimously agreed in January to[...]
