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Virginia Health Quality Center,
a health care improvement organization headquartered
in Richmond, received a Bronze Award in the Community
Organization Division from the World Wide Web
Health Awards, a program that recognizes the best
health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals.
The center’s site features information on
Medicare for beneficiaries and health care providers.
(01/20/04, Press release)
Kingsmill Resort and Spa of Williamsburg
was included in Travel + Leisure magazine’s
“T+L500,” an annual list of the
500 best hotels and resorts around the world.
Kingsmill is Virginia’s largest golf resort
with 63 holes along the James River, plus 400
guest suites and fitness and spa facilities.
(01/20/04, Press release)
Star Scientific Inc., a Chester-based
manufacturer of discount cigarettes and smokeless
tobacco products, announced it would not buy
tobacco under contract from farmers in Virginia
and North Carolina. The company cited a decision
by Brown & Williamson Tobacco, Star’s
largest customer, not to buy any of the company’s
leaf this year. (01/22/04, Richmond Times-Dispatch)
4FrontSecurity, a Fairfax-based
information security consultancy, won the “Touchdown”
Transatlantic Business Plan Competition and will
receive office space and business development
services at the Royal Holloway Enterprise Centre
at Royal Holloway College in Great Britain. Prolmmune
Ltd. from Oxford, Great Britain, a biotech
developer of products for monitoring the human
immune system, won a place in the Fairfax County
BioAccelerator, and will receive business development
services to help it expand in the U.S. The Fairfax
County Economic Development Authority and
UK Trade & Investment organized the competition,
now in its third year. (01/12/04, Business
Wire)
iDefense, a provider
of information security intelligence to the
government and corporate clients, formed its
first advisory board as part of the company’s
expansion plans. Named to the board were Roger
T. Staubach, chairman and CEO of The Staubach
Company; Adm. (ret.) Robert Natter; and Rear
Adm. (ret.) Thomas C. Lynch. (01/12/04, PRNewswire)
The Harvest Foundation
of Martinsville, offered a $50 million challenge
grant to the Commonwealth of Virginia
conditioned on establishment of a four-year
public college in Martinsville or Henry County
by January 2006. The Harvest Foundation, created
in 2002 after the sale of Memorial Hospital
of Martinsville and Henry County, is tasked
with improving quality of life in the areas
of health, education and welfare within the
area previously served by Memorial Hospital.
(01/10/04, PRNewswire)
Sanjay Puri, president and
CEO of Optimos, was presented the Virginia Minority
Supplier Development Council’s Entrepreneur
of the year award. Puri founded the Chantilly
company in 1993, it provides federal clients with
systems to enable quick response to record requests
from constituents and other departments. (01/07/04,
PRNewswire)
The University of Richmond was named
by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine
to its list of 100 best values in private colleges
in the United States. UR placed 32nd in the
list. Colleges were ranked on a combination
of academics, aid packages and total costs.
(01/07/04, Press release)
VMDO Architects, a Charlottesville-based
firm, was named winner of the 2003 T. David Fitz-Gibbon
Architecture Firm Award presented by the Virginia
Society of the American Institute of Architects.
The award goes to a Virginia-based firm that has
produced consistent, distinguished architecture
for at least 10 years. (12/22/03, Press release)
Ukrop’s Super Markets,
a Richmond-headquartered food retailer, SRA
International, a Fairfax information technology
firm, and Mitre, a nonprofit technology defense
consultant in McLean, were named to Fortune
magazine’s list of the 100 Best Places
to Work For in 2003. This is the fifth consecutive
year Ukrop’s has made the list. (12/31/03,
Richmond Times-Dispatch)
