Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 12, 1995 TAG: 9504120067
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-8 EDITION: METRO
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ABINGDON - Food Country USA, an Abingdon-based supermarket chain, will open stores in Rural Retreat and Saltville by early fall.
Each 32,500-square-foot store will include a deli-bakery, sandwich shop and video rental. The Rural Retreat store in Wythe County also will have a pharmacy and bank.
Food Country has operated in Southwest Virginia since 1914 and has stores in Abingdon, Bristol, Marion and Duffield in Virginia, and Mountain City, Blountville and Kingsport in Tennessee.
- Staff report
Women own 42% more businesses
WASHINGTON - The number of female-owned businesses jumped 42 percent from 1991 to 1994, and women now hire more workers in the United States than Fortune 500 companies do globally.
``This new data strongly document that women-owned businesses are an increasingly potent economic force,'' Laura Henderson, who chairs the National Foundation for Women Business Owners, said Tuesday in announcing the results of the national study by Dun & Bradstreet Information Services.
The study found that the 7.7 million companies, up from 5.4 million in 1991, provided jobs for 15.5 million people in the United States last year. That compared with 11.5 million jobs generated worldwide by the largest U.S. companies listed by Fortune magazine.
It said employment grew 11.6 percent among female-owned businesses from 1991 to 1994, compared with 5.3 percent among all U.S. companies.
Sales by female-owned businesses total $1.38 trillion annually, compared with $1 trillion four years earlier, according to the study, ``Women-Owned Businesses: Breaking the Boundaries.''
- Associated Press
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Two Roanoke restaurants - The Library and Remington's at the Roanoke Airport Marriott hotel - are among 31 restaurants and hotels in Virginia that have been awarded Four Diamond ratings by the American Automobile Association. The citation is based on facilities and service. The Library has received the citation for five years, Remington's has received it for four years.
Hayes Seay Mattern & Mattern, a Roanoke firm of architects and engineers, has been cited by the Virginia Masonry Council for its design of Cox Cable Roanoke's new headquarters in Roanoke County. Architect for the project, completed last August, was George Gorbatenko.
by CNB