ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, November 30, 1996 TAG: 9612020082
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A-9 EDITION: METRO
AutoZone has plans for 335 more stores
AutoZone Inc. plans to open 335 stores in fiscal 1997, giving it about 1,758 stores and increasing its square footage 26 percent, according to the retailer's annual report.
The nation's largest auto-parts chain opened 280 stores in fiscal 1996 and had 70 stores under construction at year's end.
The Memphis, Tenn.-based company, a major competitor of the Roanoke-based Advance Auto Parts chain, will open new stores within or next to existing market areas and cluster its openings to get maximum benefit from its advertising and distribution costs, according to the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Bloomberg Business News
Bankruptcies
Six bankruptcies with business affiliations have been filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Western Virginia at Roanoke. Four of them are personal bankruptcies that the court listed as businesses because they have commercial connections and could be of interest to business creditors and customers.
* William Jeffrey Jarvis of Radford filed for business reorganization and protection from creditors. He operates A&J Restaurant Supply and Alleghany Cafe. Estimates of assets and liabilities were not available.
* Robert Gresham Leonard Jr. and Lori Davis Leonard of Christiansburg filed for a wage-earner plan for repayment of debts, listing assets of $107,604 and liabilities of $96,555. Lori Davis operates a child-care business.
* Thomas M. Milton Sr. of Rocky Mount, who formerly operated Franklin Street Citgo, filed for liquidation, listing assets of $3,437 and liabilities of $21,580.
* Wade Franklin Phillippi and Susan Denise Phillippi of Wytheville filed for liquidation with assets of $62,550 and liabilities of $98,958. Wade Phillippi is a self-employed contractor.
* Roger L. Harrison and Nancy A. Harrison of Salem filed for a wage-earner plan for repayment of debts with assets of $9,200 and liabilities of $20,494. Roger Harrison is a self-employed painter.
* Robert G. Cantley and Elizabeth M. Cantley of Roanoke filed for a wage-earner plan for repayment of debts with assets of $232,454 and liabilities of $243,836. He operates as Robert G. Cantley Inc.
-Staff report
Thousands apply for Motorola jobs
RICHMOND - More than 6,500 people have applied for 600 manufacturing positions during job fairs conducted by White Oak Semiconductor, and the company expects at least 2,000 more candidates.
White Oak next week will start using a post office box to accept resumes from people who want to apply for other jobs with the company.
White Oak, a joint venture between Motorola Inc. and Siemens AG, is building a computer-chip plant in eastern Henrico County that will employ up to 1,500 people. Dan Berryman, White Oak's human resources director, said about 600 of the jobs will be in manufacturing.
White Oak also will be looking for people to fill engineering, technical, computer system, management, trade, administrative and accounting positions.
White Oak will make dynamic random access memory chips, or DRAMs, starting in 1998.
-Associated Press
NLRB to tangle with newspaper unions
DETROIT - The National Labor Relations Board plans to recommend contempt of court charges against striking Detroit newspaper unions, a local NLRB official said.
The unions allegedly have violated a July agreement with the newspapers in which they promised to refrain from violence, coercion and threats against the newspapers and their employees.
Six union locals have been on strike against The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press and Detroit Newspapers Inc., the papers' joint business and production agency, since July 1995.
-Associated Press
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