Fred Bryant, 22, has a new business but is getting ready to put his boots in a combat zone.
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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.
SBA spigot increases flow
SBA loans are regaining popularity, but loan volume is still well off pre-recession levels.
Tenants filling up Williams Mullen building
Richmond’s newest skyscraper is almost full after adding three new tenants.
Trading Day: Inside SEC filings for 11.18.10
Security company Brink’s is pulling it’s cash-handling division out of Belgium, where it was carrying money but not making money. Plus a president at CarMax cashed in options for a profit of more than $800,000 and a vice chairman at Markel sells $3 million in stock.
Benvenuto a Richmond, Fiat
Two local car dealers — Whitten Brothers and Pearson — were awarded Fiat franchises yesterday. They are among a group of 130 chosen to be the first to sell the Italian cars in the U.S. Fiats were last sold in the U.S. in the early 1980s.