Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 14, 1993 TAG: 9307140451
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-6 EDITION: METRO
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\ Mental Health Services of the Roanoke Valley has become Blue Ridge Community Services, saying the new name reflects both its wider geographic territory and services that deal with mental retardation and substance abuse as well as mental illness. The Roanoke-based agency provides programs at 26 facilities in Roanoke, Salem and Botetourt, Craig and Roanoke counties.
\ Landmark Communications Inc., parent of the Roanoke Times & World-News, said Tuesday it has sold a California newspaper and several other publications to Kendell Communications Inc. of New York. The asset sale of Landmark's Californian Publishing Co. includes The Daily Californian, a 25,000-circulation newspaper in El Cajon; Senior World, a group of monthly publications in southern California, and Antiques and Collectibles, a monthly in the San Diego area. Terms of the sale weren't disclosed.
\ United Central Industrial Supply Co. Inc., a Big Rock subsidiary of the United Co. of Bristol, has bought Blue Ridge Hardware and Supply Co. of Bassett. As the newly formed Blue Ridge Industrial Supply Co., it will be a subsidiary of United Central and an industrial distributor to the furniture and textile industries. A unit of Blue Ridge, Virginia Machine Tool, makes custom parts and machine tooling for the furniture industry.
\ The Advantage Inc., a Baltimore executive resume service, has opened an office in Forest. Wendy Enelow, president, can be reached at the new office by calling (804) 525-2771.
\ Blue Ridge Transfer of Thomasville, N.C., which has a terminal in Henry County, has assumed the furniture-moving business of Johnson Brothers of Hickory, N.C. A Blue Ridge Transfer spokesman said the business will significantly increase its market share in the Northeast and Florida.
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