Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, September 26, 1995                   TAG: 9509260062
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

Crestar Bank said Monday it will launch home banking services via personal computer under agreements with Microsoft Corp. and Intuit, which together account for 80 percent of the personal finance software currently in use.

Crestar's new service will permit customers to use Quicken version 5.0, the new Microsoft Money for Windows 95 or Microsoft Money 3.0 to access their Crestar deposit accounts and perform some of the banking transactions available in a branch.

Customers will be able to download deposit account information, reconcile accounts, transfer funds among their Crestar deposit accounts and contact Crestar via e-mail.

The bank said fees for the service have not been determined. The service will not be available to businesses.

|-Staff Report

Remington Arms moving to N.C.

The Remington Arms Co. Inc. said Monday it will move its world headquarters from Wilmington, Del., to near Greensboro, N.C., next summer.

The company said it will hire 90 people to work at the headquarters planned in Rockingham County. About 60 employees are expected to transfer from Delaware.

The company said it chose the location because of the area's people, business climate and generous financial incentives. Remington has a sales office in Greensboro.

Remington said it considered proposals from Delaware and Kentucky.

Remington, with 2,500 employees worldwide, makes guns for the sportsman, ammunition, targets, traps, knives and safes, and markets fishing line and accessories under the Stren brand name.

- Staff Report

Coal tons climb to 20.9 million

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Domestic coal production totaled 20.9 million tons during the week ending Sept. 16, up 5 percent from the 19.9 million tons produced the previous week, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Monday.

The U.S. coal industry produced 20.3 million tons in the same week last year, according to the department's Energy Information Administration. Virginia mines produced 767,000 tons during the survey week, up from 685,000 tons the previous week but down from 778,000 tons a year ago.

- Associated Press