Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) articles from October 2003

Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) archives from October 2003

Economy Blasts Off in Quarter; GDP Sees Fastest Growth since 1984.
October 31, 2003... Byline: Bob Rayner Oct. 31--A spending spree by consumers, businesses and overseas customers boosted the U.S. economy to its strongest quarter in almost 20 years. From July to September, the total value of goods and services...

Richmond, Va.-Based Overnite Transportation Raises Price of IPO.
October 31, 2003... Byline: Chip Jones Oct. 31--The share price of Overnite Transportation Co. went up yesterday even before it returned to the stock market. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, Richmond-based Overnite...

Richmond, Va., Business League Names New Leader.
October 30, 2003... Byline: Gail Kelley Oct. 30--Richmonder Oliver R. Singleton is wearing yet another new hat. The latest one is as president and chief executive officer of The Metropolitan Business League. The business league's board of directors...

Dominion Asks Virginia Officials for Shield for Sensitive, Bid-Related Data.
October 30, 2003... Byline: Greg Edwards Oct. 30--Dominion Virginia Power has asked the State Corporation Commission to give special protection to competitively sensitive information related to its bid to join a regional transmission grid operator. ...

Richmond, Va.-Based Home Furnishings Retailer Files for Bankruptcy Protection.
October 30, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 30--Home furnishings retailer Ducks In A Row Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection as sales of window treatments and other home decor items have slowed. The Richmond-based chain, which operates...

Richmond, Va., Airport to Allow Half-Hour Grace Period on Parking.
October 29, 2003... Byline: Chip Jones Oct. 29--Picking up passengers at Richmond International Airport is getting cheaper. By a 14-0 voice vote yesterday, the Capital Region Airport Commission granted up to 30 minutes of free parking in 280 spaces...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Earnings Column.
October 29, 2003... Oct. 29--UNIVERSAL CORP.'S PROFITS RISE: Universal Corp.'s profit rose 21 percent in the company's fiscal first quarter that ended Sept. 30. The Richmond-based tobacco leaf dealer reported a profit of $34.4 million, or $1.37 per share,...

Virginia's Jobless Rate Unchanged.
October 29, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 29--Virginia's unemployment rate in September held steady at 3.8 percent, according to figures released yesterday by the Virginia Employment Commission. The number of jobless workers in Virginia fell in...

New Agriculture Dean at Virginia Tech Sees Opportunity, Even amid Budget Woes.
October 28, 2003... Byline: Greg Edwards Oct. 28--Sharron Quisenberry packed her belongings and headed east for Virginia this year. It was not an easy decision. Quisenberry, 58, had been agriculture dean for four years at Montana State University in...

Comcast Cracks Down on Richmond, Va., Cable Thieves; 60 Charged.
October 28, 2003... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Oct. 28--Richmond police have charged 25 people with stealing cable television as part of Comcast Corp.'s crackdown on cable theft. The cable provider said yesterday that police, working with Comcast's own...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Earnings Column.
October 28, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 28--Richmond-based United Dominion Realty Trust Inc. reported funds from operations of $53.1 million, or 38 cents per share, for the third quarter. That compares with $38.5 million, or 30 cents per share,...

Thousands of Virginia Taxpayers Owned Money by IRS.
October 28, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 28--Nearly 5,000 Virginia taxpayers -- including 700 in the Richmond area -- are due $2.7 million in income-tax refunds and child-credit checks. Richmond-area residents are owed about $378,000, or about an...

Employee-Owned, Glen Allen, Va.-Based Water Treatment Firm Moves Ahead.
October 27, 2003... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Oct. 27--When people ask her what she does for a living, Patti Harman can't resist having a little fun. "I say I own a water-treatment company," said Harman, who is senior graphics designer at ChemTreat...

Experts Say Richmond, Va., on Leading Edge of New National Migration Trend.
October 26, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 26--Three years in a progressive city on the shore of Puget Sound was long enough. "Seattle is a beautiful city," said Karen Dalton. But the traffic was bad and the rent was high. After nine years with...

University Fuels Recent Commercial Growth in Farmville, Va., Area.
October 26, 2003... Byline: Jamie C. Ruff Oct. 26--FARMVILLE, Va.--When Kenneth Copeland stands on North Main Street in downtown Farmville, his point is made. A steady stream of cars crawls slowly between stoplights, occasionally jousting for parking...

Businessman's Vision of Aiding Afghan Schoolchildren Is Nearing Reality.
October 25, 2003... Byline: Chip Jones Oct. 25--Serving with the Marines in Afghanistan, Capt. Kemper A. Jones saw homes without roofs, schools without walls and other signs of that nation's troubles. But according to Jones' father -- Ashland...

Real-Estate Developer Eyes Richmond, Va., Block for Apartment Project.
October 25, 2003... Byline: Jeffrey G. Kelley Oct. 25--Not only does he have Oregon Hill's backing, he has its blessing. Real estate developer Stephen Salomonsky has assembled half a city block in the Richmond neighborhood for the development of roughly...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Earnings Column.
October 25, 2003... Oct. 25--SAXON CAPITAL SEES HIGHER PROFITS: Saxon Capital Inc. reported third-quarter net income of $17.5 million, or 58 cents per share, compared with $8.5 million, or 29 cents per share, a year before. The Richmond mortgage lending and...

Richmond, Va., Restaurant Reopens with New Owner.
October 25, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 25--Buckhead's Restaurant opened last night under new ownership. Former owner Rusty Kirven said he is glad the popular New York-style chophouse on Patterson Avenue is able to get a second chance. ...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Bob Rayner Column.
October 25, 2003... Byline: Bob Rayner Oct. 25--Caspar Weinberger has seen and helped make -- more than his share of history in the past four decades. As Gov. Ronald Reagan's director of finance in California, he was one of the early architects of...

Top Officers of Richmond, Va., Majority Black-Owned Bank Resign.
October 24, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 24--The top two senior officers of Consolidated Bank & Trust Co. have resigned from the ailing bank. Leon L. Scott, who was named as president and chief executive officer in January 2001, resigned Wednesday...

Richmond, Va., Charity Ball Proceeds Will Go Toward Helping Children.
October 24, 2003... Byline: Bob Rayner Oct. 24--Andrew's Buddies has raised millions of dollars to help children around the world. But tomorrow night, the Richmond group's legendary flair for mixing good times and good works will be devoted to a...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Earnings Column.
October 24, 2003... Oct. 24--CHESAPEAKE SEES PROFIT FALL: Chesapeake Corp.'s third-quarter profit fell 67 percent because of lower sales of land and some packaging products and a fire at one of its food and household packaging plants. The Richmond-based...

Virginia Consumer Counsel Seeks Consensus over Extending Electric Rate Freeze.
October 24, 2003... Byline: Greg Edwards Oct. 24--Deputy Attorney General Judith Jagdmann faces a job of grand proportions. Jagdmann, the state's consumer counsel, may find it easier to part the James River than to get a bunch of electricity suppliers...

Philip Morris Employees Begin Moving into New Richmond, Va., Headquarters.
October 24, 2003... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Oct. 24--Philip Morris USA's relocation from New York City to Richmond is gaining momentum. Employees from both cities have started moving into the company's new headquarters on West Broad Street in...

Apartment Building Owners File for Bankruptcy in Richmond, Va.
October 23, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 23--The partnership that owns the original Tobacco Row apartment buildings filed for federal bankruptcy protection yesterday to thwart a foreclosure auction scheduled for this morning. The filing in...

FleetBoston to Buy Circuit City Bank-Card Portfolio for $1.3 Billion.
October 23, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 23--Circuit City Stores Inc. has agreed to sell its troubled bank-card operations to FleetBoston Financial Corp. for $1.3 billion. FleetBoston would buy the part of Circuit City's finance subsidiary...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Earnings Column.
October 23, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 23--Capital One Financial Corp. said third-quarter profit rose to $276.3 million, or $1.17 per share, compared with $258.8 million, or $1.13 per share for the same period a year ago. The company is the...

Mold Discovery Prompts Williamsburg, Va., Resort to Close 400 Guest Rooms.
October 23, 2003... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Oct. 23--Kingsmill Resort has had to close 400 condominium guest rooms for at least six months after finding mold in some rooms. Joseph A. Durante, the resort's executive vice president and managing...

Developer Plans High-End Apartments for Richmond, Va.-Area Neighborhood.
October 22, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 22--Town houses and some high-end apartments will be coming to the Tobacco Row area. The developer of the River Lofts at Tobacco Row project believes the area on the eastern edge of Shockoe Bottom is...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Earnings Column.
October 22, 2003... Oct. 22--Dominion Resources Inc., parent of Dominion Virginia Power, reported a loss of $256 million, or 79 cents per share, for the quarter that ended Sept. 30. That contrasts with a net gain of $430 million, or $1.54 per share, during...

Investors Take Shine to Richmond, Va.-Area Commercial Real-Estate Market.
October 22, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 22--Never mind the current down-cycle in the commercial real estate market. Investors are eyeing the market in Richmond, said a keynote speaker at yesterday's Real Estate Trends conference presented by...

Federal Reserve Bank President of Richmond, Va. Is Optimistic on Economy.
October 21, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 21--The economy is still running roughly, as the lawn mower does when it's first fired up, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond said yesterday. It's about to break into a hum, J. Alfred...

After 50 Years, Richmond, Va., Woman Leaves Area Retail Association.
October 21, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 21--Jo Anne C. Cole took a job as a filing clerk a couple of months before graduating from high school in 1953. The part-time job at what is now the Retail Merchants Association of Greater Richmond...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Biz Buzz Column.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 20--Robert S. Ukrop was a tad nervous when his family-owned grocery chain decided early two months ago to take over the Community Pride store at West Grace and North Harrison streets. Ukrop's Super...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Trade Names Column.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Bonnie Newman Davis Oct. 20--Sylvia Juanita Duncan Richardson has a ready answer when quizzed about the endless power of flowers. "Roses are everyone's favorite," she said. "Some people think they don't have flowers unless...

Richmond, Va., Trucking Magnate Gives Generously to Charity.
October 20, 2003... Oct. 20--When you make as much money as trucking pioneer J. Harwood Cochrane, even your gifts make headlines. In 2000, for example, a $5.4 million gift by Cochrane and his artist wife, Louise, to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts helped...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Consumer Watch Column.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Iris Taylor Oct. 20--You spend a lot of money trying to attract new customers. But, you can't seem to keep them. Why? Find out why, urged Eric Tyson of Massachusetts, who with co-author Jim Schell wrote the book, "Small...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Small Business Column.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Stu Neal Oct. 20--Marketing your small business doesn't have to be expensive. Ask the typical small-business owner what the word "marketing" means and nine times out of 10 the response will be "advertising." While...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Start-Up Spotlight Column.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Holly Carroll Oct. 20--As America ages, people are spending millions of dollars on products to reverse nature's course and in general, paying more attention to their skin's condition before it's too late. One person who has...

Icon in Richmond, Va., Trucking Industry Retires from Second Firm at 91.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Chip Jones Oct. 20--Early this year, supermarket executive James E. Ukrop got a call from an old friend -- trucking magnate J. Harwood Cochrane. Like many local business executives, Ukrop had known Cochrane his entire life....

Forest City Finishes Second Phase of Richmond, Va., Warehouse Renovations.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 20--Jon Wallenmeyer remembers the trip to Richmond in 1996. An architect at the time, Wallenmeyer had been asked by Forest City Enterprises Inc. to look at a group of former tobacco buildings east of...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Speaking of Work Column.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Wallace Johnston Oct. 20--Do you have access to the grapevine? It's a powerful communication source within an organization. If you don't have a spot on the grapevine, you better get grafted on. The informal message system in...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Workforce Column.
October 20, 2003... Byline: Christine Chmura Oct. 20--Just two months ago I was asked to title a presentation about the economy, "Why it Doesn't Feel Like the Recession is Over?" The quick answer is "lack of job growth." The national recession that...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., John Reid Blackwell Column.
October 19, 2003... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Oct. 19--The news this month that smoking rates in the United States are continuing a downward trend was a mixed bag for anti-tobacco activists. The percentage of U.S. adults who smoke dropped in 2001 for...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Consumer Watch Column.
October 19, 2003... Byline: Iris Taylor Oct. 19--Marian Fincher of Mechanicsville said a recently purchased DVD/VCR player was missing after the moving company, All My Sons Moving & Storage in Richmond, moved her possessions from one part of town to...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Bob Rayner Column.
October 19, 2003... Byline: Bob Rayner Oct. 19--Bob DeFazio is pretty sure he's on to something. The engineer, inventor and aspiring tycoon has spent half his life working on a project that he believes could revolutionize a mainstay of the industrial...

Judge Reschedules Hearing, Averts Potential Amtrak Strike.
October 18, 2003... Byline: Chip Jones Oct. 18--A potential strike against Amtrak next week was averted after a federal judge rescheduled a hearing, rail and union officials said yesterday. U.S. District Judge James Robertson set a Nov. 14 hearing in...

More Bank Branches to Close; Hundreds without Jobs in BB&T Bank Buy.
October 18, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 18--The transformation of First Virginia Banks Inc. into BB&T Corp. this week appeared to go smoothly. More than 300 former First Virginia branches now operate as BB&T. But work still needs to be done. ...

Circuit City Outsources Call Center Work to Company in India.
October 18, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 18--Next time you call Circuit City's customer service toll-free help line, chances are the person on the other end is in India. The Richmond-based retailer is part of a growing number of U.S....

Texas Bank Sets Foreclosure Auction for Richmond, Va., Apartment Complex.
October 18, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 18--The apartment buildings making up the first part of the Tobacco Row redevelopment project are slated to be sold at auction next week. A Plano, Texas-based bank holding the second mortgage on the...

Married at 18, Richmond, Va.-Area Couple Put Saving in High Gear, Retire at 50.
October 18, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 18--Ken and Rose Tanner have traveled across the country twice since retiring at age 50 three years ago -- all on a Harley-Davidson. They went to San Diego, took a left and headed to Mexico. Then they went...

Policyholders of Reinsurance Group Reciprocal to Get Partial Payment.
October 17, 2003... Byline: Alan Cooper Oct. 17--The receivers for Reciprocal of America and risk-retention groups that insure physicians and lawyers have decided to join forces rather than continue to fight each other. The immediate effect of the...

Auto Retailer CarMax Choses Second Richmond, Va.-Area Location.
October 16, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 16--Auto retailer CarMax Inc. has chosen a new site in Chesterfield County for a second Richmond-area location. The site is between two large dealerships and across the street from other auto lots....

Honeywell International Considers More Richmond, Va.-Area Job Cuts.
October 16, 2003... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Oct. 16--Honeywell International Inc. is planning to eliminate more jobs from its Richmond-area operations. The company said yesterday that it is starting negotiations with the Teamsters Local 101 union to...

News Editor to Discuss Balance in Democracy at Richmond, Va., Conference.
October 16, 2003... Byline: Bob Rayner Oct. 16--Fareed Zakaria believes that too much democracy can be dangerous. Look to California for proof. "It may be the most poorly managed region in the advanced industrial world," said Zakaria, the editor of...

Builders Take Parade of Homes Honors in Richmond, Va.
October 16, 2003... Byline: Linda Dunham Oct. 16--Prospect Homes and Parker & Orleans Homebuilders had a good year in the Home Building Association of Richmond's 52nd annual Parade of Homes -- winning a total of 51 awards in six categories. Prospect...

CarMax Lowers Sales, Profit Expectations; Shares Drop.
October 16, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 16--Weak used-car sales this fall and a loss of business from Hurricane Isabel has prompted CarMax Inc. to lower sales and profit expectations in the current fiscal third quarter. Shares fell sharply...

Publishing Firm Acquires Assets of Glen Allen, Va.-Based Company.
October 16, 2003... Oct. 16--Cruz Bay Publishing Inc. has acquired the assets of Glen Allen-based Sabot Publishing Inc. Sabot's special interest publications include Black Belt, Vegetarian Times, Better Nutrition, Southwest Art and Log Home Design Ideas. It...

Telecommunications Carrier Adds Charlottesville, Va., to Service Area.
October 16, 2003... Oct. 16--US Lec Corp., a regional telecommunications carrier serving businesses, announced yesterday that it was adding Charlottesville to its service area. The Charlotte, N.C.-based company also said that Columbia, S.C., would join the...

Richmond, Va.-Based Media General Sells Financial-Information Subsidiary.
October 15, 2003... Byline: Bob Rayner Oct. 15--Media General Inc. has sold a subsidiary that began as a financial-information service for newspapers but transformed itself largely into a source of online financial data. Media General Financial Services...

Richmond, Va., Women Business Owners Group Bestows Honors.
October 15, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 15--Owning a business was a given for Katrina VanHuss. "I grew up on a tobacco and beef cattle farm in Pennsylvania. That is the ultimate small-business experience, far more risky and adventurous than...

Dominion Virginia Power Puts Isabel-Related Costs at $128 Million.
October 15, 2003... Byline: Greg Edwards Oct. 15--Dominion Virginia Power estimates that its costs, after taxes, for restoring its system and cleaning up after Hurricane Isabel are $128 million. Representatives of Virginia Power and other Virginia...

Richmond, Va.-Based Cornerstone Realty Income Trust Names New President.
October 14, 2003... Oct. 14--S.J. "Jay" Olander Jr. has been appointed president of Cornerstone Realty Income Trust Inc. The position formerly was held by Glade M. Knight, who remains as chairman and chief executive officer. Olander, 49, is a member of the...

Virginia Governor, Attorney General Urge Assembly to Freeze Electricity Rates.
October 14, 2003... Byline: Greg Edwards Oct. 14--Top Virginia officials have acknowledged that electric deregulation and power-industry restructuring have not gone as well as expected. For that reason, the offices of the governor and the attorney...

Title Insurance Offers Some Peace of Mind in Virginia.
October 14, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 14--You buy a house from a couple claiming to be husband and wife. One of the two is legally married to someone else. The estranged husband (or wife) didn't approve the sale and has an ownership interest in...

Tissue Technologies Strives to Develop Bandages for Chronic Wounds.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Elizabeth Esfahani Oct. 13--Patients often came to his clinic with toilet paper or rags in their wounds, unable to afford prescribed bandages. Their crudely swathed sores were not only painful, but lingered for months, and...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Biz Buzz Column.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 13--DISPOSABLE DIAPERS SOLD IN GIFT BASKETS: Mary Gibrall searched for novelty baby gifts a few years ago when she was pregnant. She wanted to find something different. She had heard about a company...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., John Reid Blackwell Column.
October 13, 2003... Byline: John Reid Blackwell Oct. 13--You could call it a matchmaking service for businesses. Specialists with the Virginia Employment Commission are doing just that sort of thing at the VEC's Prince George County field office --...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Consumer Watch Column.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Iris Taylor Oct. 13--TIPS HELP COOL COST OF WINTER HEAT: Consumers, it's a tossup. This coming winter in this region has an equal chance at being above or below normal in terms of temperatures, said Jim Laver, director of the...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Chip Jones Column.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Chip Jones Oct. 13--Watch out US Airways -- Delta's gaining on you. Arlington-based US Airways, long the No. 1 airline for Richmond-based travelers, saw its local passenger base fall below the 30 percent mark in August,...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., American Trends Column.
October 13, 2003... Byline: Gary Robertson Oct. 13--A new wave of migrant workers is criss-crossing the country. But instead of old pickup trucks, they're driving shiny RVs. They work at campgrounds, resorts, national parks, theme parks, guest...

Stores at New Richmond, Va., Shopping Center Modify All-Dogs-Welcome Policy.
October 12, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 12--Arlene Bjork and her daughter Whitley take the family's miniature poodle to Stony Point Fashion Park nearly every day. "It is like being in Paris or New York," said Bjork, who moved to...

Work on Virginia Gas Pipeline Slows; Demand for Use Declined, Official Says.
October 11, 2003... Byline: Greg Edwards Oct. 11--Dominion Transmission Inc. has backed off the accelerator on its Greenbrier natural-gas pipeline project after losing some of the pipeline's expected customers. A Dominion marketing manager told a...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Bob Rayner Column.
October 11, 2003... Byline: Bob Rayner Oct. 11--CUSTOMER-SERVICE SAGE SHARES HEADSET WISDOM: Earlier this week, I helped my mother-in-law buy her first cell phone. As we headed into the Digital One store at Willow Lawn, I prepared myself to endure a long...

Virginia Anti-Smoking Foundation Puts Advertising Contact Up for Bid.
October 11, 2003... Byline: Bob Rayner Oct. 11--Got smokes? Maybe not, if the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation keeps getting its message out. A year and a half after the statewide unveiling of its well-received anti-smoking campaign, the...

Virginia Power Reaches Settlement with State to Lower Proposed Rate Hike.
October 10, 2003... Byline: Greg Edwards Oct. 10--A last-minute settlement may sharply reduce the impact on consumers of Dominion Virginia Power's requested increase in the fuel portion of its rates. The settlement, which requires approval by the...

Richmond, Va., Supermarket Celebrates Banking Milestone with Sweepstakes.
October 10, 2003... Byline: Carol Hazard Oct. 10--Julie McAulay mapped out her strategy. The mother of four children had two minutes to fill her grocery cart yesterday with as many items as she could. She could go to any center aisle plus the frozen and...

Virginia to Study Efforts by Phone Companies to Restore Service after Storm.
October 9, 2003... Byline: Greg Edwards Oct. 9--The state will review storm-restoration efforts by Verizon and other local phone companies, whose pace has prompted hundreds of complaints. Although it's not clear yet whether public meetings will be a...

Virginia Governments Express Concern over Dominion's Proposed Fuel-Rate Hike.
October 8, 2003... Byline: Greg Edwards Oct. 8--Speakers were scarce yesterday for the public part of a hearing on Dominion Virginia Power's proposed $442 million fuel-rate increase. Two of three public witnesses -- from local governments in...

Virginia-Based Retailer Peebles to Be Sold to Much Bigger Stage Stores.
October 8, 2003... Byline: Gregory J. Gilligan Oct. 8--Department store retailer Peebles Inc. is being acquired by the much bigger Stage Stores Inc. chain as a way to compete. The deal, valued at $213.9 million, unites two retailers that sell...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va., Business Briefs Column.
October 7, 2003... Oct. 7--ADVERTISING: At Siddall Inc.: Rebecca Lambert is an account coordinator. She had been with Calvin Klein Inc. Amy Moore is a media buyer. BANKING, INVESTMENTS: At SunTrust Banks Inc.: Joanne E. Even has been promoted to vice...

Richmond, Va.-Based Ad Agency Wins Contract for Denver-Based Sandwich Chain.
October 7, 2003... Byline: Bob Rayner Oct. 7--After suffering through some lean years, Richmond's largest advertising agency has started landing some meaty new business. Yesterday, The Martin Agency picked up the creative advertising account for...

Entrepreneurial Bug Bites Former Teacher in Richmond, Va., for Second Time.
October 7, 2003... Byline: Bob Rayner Oct. 7--A lot of people dream about starting their own business, but most never summon the courage to actually do it. For Linda Nash, creating new ventures has almost become a way of life. And she's convinced...