Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 22, 1995 TAG: 9502220075
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-8 EDITION: METRO
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NetEdge Systems Inc., a North Carolina company with Roanoke ties, has won the ComNet New Product Achievement Award at the ComNet '95 trade show in Washington, D.C.
NetEdge, a maker of digital communications networking equipment, was spun off a year ago from Roanoke's FiberCom Inc. and located in the Research Triangle Park near Raleigh, N.C. FiberCom since has become a unit of Litton Industries' Blacksburg-based Poly-Scientific division.
NetEdge was recognized for its ATM Connect edge router, a device used to link computer networks at high transmission speeds.
- Staff report
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Domestic coal production totaled 20.4 million tons in the week ended Feb. 11, down 7 percent from 22 million tons the previous week, the U.S. Department of Energy reported. The U.S. coal industry produced 19.7 million tons in the same week last year. Virginia mines produced 807,000 tons, down from 930,000 tons a week earlier but up from 766,000 tons last year.
Realstar Realtors, a residential and commercial real estate and property management company with 20 agents, has opened at 4658 Brambleton Ave. S.W. Bob Johnson, a member of the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors, is the owner. Johnson said he and most of the agents came from the Roanoke office of HCMF Real Estate and Housing Management Corp. Valerie Eagle is sales manager, and Harold Richardson is property manager.
Most of the 300 employees at Camellia Food Stores Inc.'s warehouse and distribution center in Norfolk will lose their jobs in April because the company will no longer distribute food to its stores. Richfood Holdings Inc. of Richmond will buy Camellia's wholesale inventory, transportation fleet and fluid dairy. Camellia operates about 46 retail groceries in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
by CNB