Virginia Businesses in the News


Mergers and Acquisitions

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Highway Express Inc., a truckload carrier headquartered in Richmond, was acquired by Celadon Group Inc., an Indianapolis-based truckload carrier, to expand its footprint in the southeast part of the United States. (Business Wire)

LandAmerica Lawyers Title, a subsidiary of LandAmerica Financial Group Inc., a Richmond-based provider of real estate transaction services, acquired Ten Mile Title Inc. of Breckenridge, Co., a provider of title insurance policies and services, increasing LandAmerica's presence in the Colorado market. (PR Newswire)

LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. of Richmond, a real estate transaction services provider, acquired INFO1 Holding Co., an independent mortgage credit reporting provider headquartered in Atlanta, and plans to purchase LERETA Corp., a Covina, Calif.-based national tax service and flood hazard certification company. (PR Newswire)

PlanetGov Inc. of Chantilly, a systems integrator serving the U.S. Federal Government market, acquired the operations, assets and intellectual property of Skyline Software Systems Inc., a Massachusetts-based provider of network-based 3-D Earth visualization software and services. (Business Wire)

Resource Bankshares Corp., a banking company in Virginia Beach, plans to merge with holding company Fulton Financial Corp. of Lancaster, Pa. (The Virginian-Pilot)