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Trex Company, a Winchester
producer of decking products, was named to Fortune
Small Business magazine’s list of the 100 Fastest
Growing Small Companies in America. Trex ranked
91st on the list of public companies.
(06/23/2004, Business Wire)
Watt, Tider, Hoffar &
Fitzgerald, a global law firm with offices
in Northern Virginia, was ranked as the top
law firm in the state for construction law,
in a survey by Chambers USA Guide to America’s
Leading Business Lawyers. For the survey, London-based
Chambers and Partners researched firms for each
state in 20 areas of commercial law. (06/23/2004,
Press release)
Genworth Financial, a
Richmond-based insurance holding company, received
seven awards for technical excellence from the
Association of Cooperative Operations Research
and Development (ACORD). The non-profit group
focused on standardization of technology and
applications used across the insurance industry,
cited Genworth for the greatest growth and performance
levels regarding ACORD XML standards over the
past year. (06/21/2004, PRNewswire)
McGuireWoods, a Richmond-based
law firm, received a Gold IMA award from InternetMarkingAttorney.com
in a survey of the Web sites for the 250 largest
law firms in the country. After judging in categories
such as design, content and usability, awards
were given to the 30 highest-scoring firms.
This was the third year McGuireWoods has been
honored by IMA for its Web site. (06/18/2004,
Press release)
Nextel Communications,
a Reston-based telecommunications company, received
recognition as one of the top workplaces for
information technology professionals by IDG’s
Computerworld in its annual survey. Nextel ranked
in the top quarter of the nation’s 100 “Best
Places to Work in IT.” (06/17/2004, Business
Wire)
The Virginia Beach Convention
& Visitors Bureau was chosen a winner
of a Pinnacle Award from Successful Meetings
Magazine, given by meeting planners for commitment
to meetings service. (06/09/2004, Press release)
Neathawk Dubuque & Packett,
an ad agency with offices in Richmond and Roanoke,
won six awards in the Annual Healthcare Marketing
Awards sponsored by Healthcare Marketing Report
magazine. (06/10/2004, Business Wire)
Virginia Tech’s homemade, Apple
Mac G5-based supercomputer won honors as best
IT application in the world of science from
a committee of leading technology executives.
The 2004 Computerworld Honors Program attracted
250 entries from 26 countries. (06/10/2004,
Business Wire)
King Family Vineyards of
Crozet, won the Governor’s Cup as the outstanding
Virginia wine for its 2002 Michael Shaps Cabernet
Franc. (06/03/2004, PRNewswire)
Smithfield Food’s
subsidiary, Smithfield Packing Co., announced
its Tar Heel, N.C., plant was awarded the ISO
14001 certification from the International Organization
for Standardization in Geneva, the first major
meat processing facility in the world to achieve
the honor. The certification outlines requirements
for operating in an environmentally responsible
manner. (06/02/2004, PRNewswire)
Cypress Natural Gas of
Virginia Beach was ranked 10th by Entrepreneur
magazine on its list of 100 fastest-growing
companies. Cypress, which aids large companies
in the purchase of natural gas and energy, had
2003 sales of $25 million, and was the only
Virginia company in the top 20. (06/02/2004,
Daily Press)
Axiom Resource Management
of Falls Church, a program management and consulting
firm, was named one of the Top 100 black-owned
industrial/service businesses in America. Chosen
by Black Enterprise magazine, the firm ranked
76 in the 100 industrial/service businesses
with revenues of $43 million in 2003. (06/01/2004,
PRNewswire)
MicroStrategy, a McLean-based
provider of business intelligence software,
won an excellence award in the software guide
category of the International Technical Publications
Competition for its 7i Advanced Reporting Guide.
(05/27/2004, PRNewswire)
Thomas Hu, an assistant
professor of electrical and computer engineering
at Virginia Tech, won a five-year National Science
Foundation award worth $449,295 to fund research
on wireless embedded sensor networks. (05/25/2004,
Press release)
WebSurveyor Corp., a
provider of online survey solutions headquartered
in Herndon, was named winner of a Stevie Award
from the American Business Awards. WebSurveyor
4.1 was named best new product within the computer
software category. (05/25/2004, PRNewswire)
