Out & About - March 2012
Out & About - March 2012

2012 Virginia Business Best Places to Work awards luncheon
2012 Virginia Business Best Places to Work awards luncheon

Out & About - February 2012
Out & About - February 2012

New law makes it easier for businesses to raise cash
At a time when many businesses have had a hard time emerging from the recession, a new federal law is a welcome boon to existing businesses looking to grow and to entrepreneurs starting businesses.

Justice outside the courtroom
At its core, effective conflict management should control costs while maintaining business relationships. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is a method that parties can use to achieve that goal, and CPAs can help.

Environment first but uranium second
If it allows mining and milling operations to go forward, Virginia should use the opportunity to set an example in its legislative and regulatory process, environmental stewardship, and economic development and domestic energy policies.

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Fortune 500 list features four more Virginia companies
The new Virginia listings are the result of two headquarters relocations, a merger and a spinoff

State’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate stays at 5.6 percent
April unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in more than three years and is down six tenths of a percentage point from the same month in 2011.

European debt crisis helps push mortgage rates to new lows
The average 15-year and 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to a record low this week as European debt crisis overshadowed positive U.S. economic news.

Earnings per share rise at Advance Auto
Comparable-store sales were up 2.1 percent during the first quarter.

Nation’s largest wireless franchise expands in Virginia
Wireless Zone, the country’s largest wireless retail franchisor, has opened two new locations in Rocky Mount and Mechanicsville.

Media General to sell newspapers to Berkshire Hathaway
Warren Buffett’s company to acquire all print properties except those in Tampa

New CEO named at Chippenham and Johnston-Willis hospitals
Tim McManus has been CEO and president of Reston Hospital Center and HCA Northern Virginia

Lloyd Williams named general manager for Lansdowne Resort
Lloyd Williams has been named general manager for Leesburg’s Lansdowne Resort.

Stanley Tyliszczak named vice president for technology Integration at General Dynamics Information
General Dynamics Information Technology has named Stanley Tyliszczak to the new position of vice president for technology integration.

Aptiv Solutions names executive vice president and chief commercial officer
Luis T. Gutierrez Jr. will supervise global business development, proposal development and marketing and brand management functions