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Virginia Business Magazine
P.O. Box 85333
Richmond, VA 23293
John Kluge, a billionaire
businessman and philanthropist, announced a matching
$1 million gift to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s
Brown vs. Board of Education Scholarship Program.
The program was created by the General Assembly
to provide educational opportunities to black
Virginians whose public educations were closed
between 1954 and 1964 in the effort to block integration
of the state’s public school system. Kluge,
a resident for many years of Albemarle County,
now lives in West Palm Beach, Fla. (05/27/2004,
The Daily Progress)
RS Information Systems, a McLean information
technology company, won the second annual American
Business Award for Best Support Team. The award
was based on the work of the the company’s
Quality Council, which earned the ISO 9001:200
certification at five RISS sites. The American
Business Awards are judged by leading figures
in American business. (05/20/2004, Business
Wire)
Carter Ryley Thomas, a Richmond public
relations firm, won a Gold SABRE Award from
The Holmes Report, a leading PR industry publication,
for its media relations work on the National
Park Service’s First Flight Centennial
Celebration. CRT was also one of five finalists
for the Platinum SABRE, recognizing best in
show from than 90 category winners. (05/20/2004,
Press Release)
webMethods, a Fairfax Web services company,
was selected for the SD Times 100, a list of
the companies demonstrating the greatest innovation
and leadership in the software development industry.
This is the second consecutive year webMethods
has been chosen for the award given by the editors
of Software Development Times. (05/18/2004,
PR Newswire)
Trex Co., a manufacturer of composite
decking materials headquartered in Winchester,
was ranked number 50 on the list of 100 Best
Corporate Citizens for 2004, compiled by Business
Ethics magazine. The company was cited as environmental
friendly while maintaining consistent profitability.
(05/18/2004, The Winchester Star)
The New Century Venture Center,
a Roanoke business incubator, received the 2004
Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year award
from the National Business Incubation Association.
The NCVC has assisted 75 companies and graduated
25 since 1996. (05/03/04, Press release)
Luna Technologies, a Blacksburg technology
firm, was selected to receive the Frost &
Sullivan Award for Product Innovation for launching
a broad line of products and technologies through
its Optical Vector Analyzer platform –
a family of instruments for all-parameter optical
analysis. (04/30/04, Press release)
