Lots of insider trades this week, including a chairman at Markel who sold $2 million in stock.
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Grief camp gets lesson in communication
A local nonprofit was founded to help sooth kids in mourning, but lately the Richmond-based organization has been working to calm its own supporters.
Markel CEO to receive medical treatment
Alan Kirshner will likely be out two months for unspecified medical reasons.
‘We paid 95 percent less than they paid’
A local private equity group is doubling down on its hunch that magazines are poised for a comeback. At least, certain types of magazines.
Monday Q&A: Forging a new path
Fred Bryant, 22, has a new business but is getting ready to put his boots in a combat zone.
Trading Day: Inside SEC filings for 11.26.10
Lots of insider trades. Plus Apple REIT closed on 18 hotels.
‘They just got caught up in a horrible economy’
A local company that financed small-home builders during the boom is facing foreclosure on more than four dozen lots in several developments across the region.
The R&D Dept.: Local Patents for 11.24.10
A new patent for moving dough at AMF. A new shower cleaning sprayer device by S.C. Johnson & Son and a variation on a muscle relaxer created by an Ashland inventor.
The waiting game
A Midlothian-based bank badly in need of capital is still waiting on the deal to clear a regulatory hurdle.
Monday Q&A: An IT answer to an interior design problem?
A serial entrepreneur is at it again, trying to raise half a million dollars after coming up with an idea while renovating a house on Monument Ave.