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Meat, coffee creamer, frozen fruits and chocolate. These commodities represent some of the bread and butter business lines, literally, of Devon Anders’ mega storage and supply chain logistics company, which is based in Mount Crawford and has other state locations. The success of InterChange Group Inc. rises and falls on the health of the Shenandoah
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Is Trump good for business?
Will voters tell president ‘You’re fired’ or hire him for second term?
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President Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017 with no political experience but a lifetime spent in business. Nearly four years later, with the incumbent Republican president up for reelection against Democrat Joe Biden, a former vice president who has been in politics for 50 years, Virginia voters are asking themselves: Is Donald Trump
Virginia Tech stakes claim on data science territory
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Collecting and interpreting data has always been important in science, but Tom Woteki is at the start of a process that will teach Virginia Tech students how to make better use of information in scientific fields and possibly receive lucrative job offers. Director of the university’s data analysis and applied statistics program, the Arlington-based Woteki
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Sailing for the horizon
Despite pandemic disruptions, the Port of Virginia looks to the future
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Tariff wars and the COVID-19 pandemic delivered a one-two punch to the Port of Virginia, but officials are focusing on the positive as expansions are completed at the port’s two largest terminals, and a dredging project to make Virginia the East Coast’s deepest port is running ahead of schedule. The third-largest East Coast port behind
Cash crop?
Hemp growers find crowded, uncertain market
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Petunias, plants, strawberries, meat, tomatoes and more have been the primary revenue sources for Rolling Meadows Farms during the past 31 years. Tim Belcher took over the 400-acre Martinsville family farm in 1989 after his father retired. Now, the farm has a new product line and Belcher has high hopes that it could run neck
Changing times
A demographic revolution is transforming how Virginians live — and vote
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Town houses and apartments, storefronts and restaurants, grassy medians, pocket parks, sidewalks everywhere. Doesn’t this look a lot like a downtown? Picking up his mail in slippers and shorts on a brisk January day, Tandy Harris pauses to consider the question. “It does,” he agrees. “It’s got all the bells and whistles.” That’s one reason
LGBTQ group names top Va. companies for equality
19 Virginia companies made the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2020 list
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Nineteen Virginia companies have made the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s 2020 list of “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.” Nearly 700 U.S. companies were included in the list, which was released in the 18th edition of the organization’s 2020 Corporate Equality Index. This year’s index was determined via a survey of 1,059 companies, including
Amazon and Richmond’s Martin Agency join LGBT-friendly workplaces program
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Equality Virginia invites companies with inclusive employee policies to join Virginia Competes.
IQOS shop opening in Richmond
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Tobacco product will be marketed only to adult smokers, Altria and Philip Morris USA say.
Company opens opioid treatment facility in Harrisonburg
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Location is the sixth in Virginia for ARS Treatment Centers.