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YOLO: Tattoos and mortgages
Despite all the Googling, number-crunching and HGTV-watching, Ingrid Medrano still wasn’t ready for just how unpleasant the backyard poison ivy would be at the home she bought in Richmond about two years ago. “Oh, God, it was bad,” says the 30-year-old nonprofit worker. “The Realtor, to his credit, he[...]
50 Most Influential Virginians
Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO, Carilion Clinic Inc., Roanoke Why she is influential: Agee heads the largest private employer west of Richmond, with 13,300 employees, including nearly 730 physicians. Carilion partnered with Virginia Tech in creating a medical school — now Tech’s ninth[...]
An unconventional path
Last book read: “Start with Humility,” Merwyn A. Hayes and Michael D. Comer Favorite movie: “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” Favorite app: Google Maps Hobbies: Hunting and fishing Family: Married with three daughters On the bucket list: Taking his family to the dude ranch in Wyoming where he[...]
Sunny days ahead for solar?
The development of solar energy in Virginia has switched into high gear. Driving the growth is a huge appetite for solar-generated electricity from the nation’s biggest technology companies — Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook. They are setting up shop in Virginia and insisting on renewable energy to power the[...]
Finding the right digital solution is no corporate fairy tale
Once there was a data-based management firm that had fallen in love with Instagram and thought it presented the path to prosperity. Problem was, no one wanted to see Instagrams of developers toiling in front of their computers in darkened rooms. This company’s sweet spot was thought leadership and their understanding[...]
For the Record – June 2018
EASTERN VIRGINIA ACA International plans to invest $52 million to open a 130,000-square-foot data center in Virginia Beach. The telecommunications consultancy firm is buying a 10.2-acre site in Corporate Landing Business Park from the Virginia Beach Department of Economic Development for $2.04 million. The new facility will house th[...]
A tech play
Facebook. Amazon. Google. Those big-name technology companies are putting operations in Virginia. And everyone is buzzing about Northern Virginia making the final cut as one of 20 sites for Amazon’s $5 billion second corporate headquarters, a project that could bring 50,000 jobs during the next 15 to 17 years. In[...]
Top 15 projects by investment
< Company Location Business Type Employment Investment (millions) Facebook Henrico County Data center N 100 $1,000.00 Vantage Data Centers1 Loudoun County Data center N 50[...]
Report: Online ratings influence health-care decisions
A new report says online reviews and ratings affect most Americans’ decisions when choosing a doctor. About 75 percent of Americans say online ratings and review sites influenced their decisions when selecting their physicians. The study was commissioned by McLean-based Binary Fountain, a company that provides feedback manag[...]
Got brands?
Mars Inc. executive Andy Pharoah displays some of the company’s best-selling brands at the company’s headquarters in McLean. Photo by Mark Rhodes Colorful. Crunchy. Sweet. There’s probably no candy in America more iconic than M&M’s. The hard-shell, chocolate candies debuted 76 years ago. A[...]
Ongoing transformation
Tim Biltz, the president and CEO of Lumos Networks, has been leading a $425 million transformation of the Waynesboro-based company since he took the reins five years ago. His goal has been to turn the former landline telephone division of NTELOS Holdings Corp. into a major developer of advanced fiber networks in the mid-Atlantic. &[...]
15 Virginia-based brands on most-valuable list
Virginia is home to 15 of the 500 most valuable brands in the U.S., according to a ranking released on Thursday. Brand Finance, a London-based valuation and strategy consultancy, says that Virginia’s most valuable brand is Marlboro, a line of cigarette products produced by Philip Morris USA, a subsidiary of Henrico County-bas[...]
Five Virginia companies named to Fortune’s ‘Best Companies to Work For’ list
Five Virginia companies are featured in Fortune’s 2017 list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For." Of the five companies, four are located in Northern Virginia (Capital One, Hilton, Mars and Navy Federal Credit Union). Glen Allen-based CarMax also made the list. The top performer in Virginia is McLean-based Capital[...]
The big reboot
After a long-term, high-tech relationship, Virginia’s state government and Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman Corp. are moving toward divorce. Like many separating couples, the two sides are trying to keep things amicable while they resolve thorny issues with the help of a mediator. Despite the impending split, Virginia of[...]
Tech repair company expanding in Virginia
Just in time for the holiday season, a company that offers same-day tech repairs on small electronics such as smartphones is expanding in Virginia. uBreakiFix opened its seventh Virginia location last week in the Fair Lakes area of Fairfax. The store at 4471 Market Commons Drive joins locations in Fredericksburg, Dumfries, Falls Ch[...]
The home for drones?
On a foggy October morning, gray haze draped over Richmond’s skyline, providing an alluring landscape for aerial photographer Daryl Watkins. The rumbling of a distant train grabbed his attention as Watkins prepared to fly his drone from Great Shiplock Park in the city’s East End. Snapping a new battery into his[...]
Business imperative?
Swaziland, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea and the United States are literally and figuratively worlds apart, yet the four countries share a startling distinction. According to a Human Rights Watch report, out of all the world’s nations, they alone offer working women no legal right to paid maternity leave. Contrast that lack[...]
Are you tired of discussing millennials in the workforce?
For at least a recent handful of years, the business community has been obsessed with generational differences specifically targeting millennials as our future leaders and how we must build common ground to collaborate. Initially, I too was intrigued with all the hype — in part because I saw myself as a 20-something, fresh ou[...]
Help wanted
During the recession, many Virginians couldn’t find jobs. Now, according to chief financial officers across the state, the jobs are there, but not enough qualified applicants are showing up to claim them. That situation threatens not only a company’s growth but the overall economic prosperity of the commonwealth. Virg[...]
New technologies, new concerns
Technologies that seemed futuristic a few decades ago now are commonplace. Computers, the internet and smart devices are business necessities, and it won’t be long before drones and driverless vehicles also will play prominent roles in the economy. All of these technologies, however, have risks associated with them. Those pot[...]
