THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, April 17, 1995 TAG: 9504150221
SECTION: BUSINESS WEEKLY PAGE: 08 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Short : 43 lines
No one knows how many companies in the region do business abroad. Recently the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce began compiling a data base of international companies. Freight forwarders already are being contacted.
Hampton Roads happenings: Tony Hill says Child Alert has opened in Norfolk. He sells ID labels for kid's clothes . . . Chuck Trentini say's he'll be the proud owner of a Calido Chile Traders franchise in Greenbrier Mall in Chesapeake. Calido stocks spicy sauces, oils, vinegars and marinades . . . Sweet City International Inc. made Entrepreneur magazine's list of 500 top franchises. Joseph L. Caffrey founded the candy store franchise in '91 in Virginia Beach.
Hampton Roads is said to be courting a big financial services company. Word is the company intends to consolidate its widely scattered mortgage processing departments into a central office.
Overseas connections: Stephen L. Parks has been named vice consul of the Netherlands for Virginia and North Carolina. He's with Capes Shipping Agencies Inc., a steamship agent in Norfolk at 804-625-3568. In Richmond, the Mezzullo & McCandlish law firm will open an office in Guangzhou, the industrial heart of China near Hong Kong, staffed by lawyer Shaolong Zhu, a Guangzhou native.
On the Peninsula: Plans are afoot at Anheuser-Busch for a $100 million expansion of its James City County brewery. In Newport News, Custom Integrated Technology Inc. plans to hire 70 workers. Employment eventually could reach 150 at the subsidiary of Canon Virginia Inc. Canon, a mass producer of copier equipment, set up the $5 million plant to make custom equipment in low volumes.
There's a joke circulating among utility stock experts about two directors waiting for the start of this month's shareholder meeting of Dominion Resources Inc., the parent of Virginia Power. ``What's the worst that could happen?'' one director asks, referring to a year already marked by a public and rancorous feud between the companies' two top executives. ``A power failure,'' the other says. by CNB