THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, April 15, 1996 TAG: 9604130233
SECTION: BUSINESS WEEKLY PAGE: 05 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY MELISSA GUNDEL, BUSINESS WEEKLY
LENGTH: Short : 49 lines
Susan T. Stewart has opened Pets By You in the Mount Pleasant Village Shopping Center in Chesapeake.
Its feature: Animal owners can come in and bathe their cats or dogs.
``We are trying to be a unique concept for pet care. It's for people to come in and be with their dog and spend time and have them done quickly. Plus we show them how to do the ears and nails and blow dry them. We also teach them proper skin care,'' said Stewart, also president of of Great Bridge Dog Grooming for seven years.
A grand opening is scheduled for April 27.
Elsewhere in Hampton Roads:
The first Women's Yellow Pages Business & Resource Directory is now available.
The resource features a Women In Business section. The directories are available, free of charge to everyone and can be picked up at 416 Oakmears Crescent, Virginia Beach. Copies are also available by calling 499-3543. A $5 mailing and handling charge is required.
Old Dominion University, graduate students are getting a taste of the business world.
Students in the Enterprise Program solicit area businesses for excess inventory and used equipment. The program is a non-profit outfit that seeks funds ODU's Entrepreneurial Center.
The program began in the fall of 1994 and currently has about half a dozen students in the MBA program.
``We are looking for excess or slow moving inventory and the business can donate it to the Enterprise Program. The company gets a generous tax write off for the donation because Old Dominion University is a non-profit organization,'' said Sophie Egasse, research manager for ODU's Entrepreneurial Center.
``It's good for the graduate students because they get real good business experience. If people do not want to donate, we can also serve as a broker. We might help them sell their furniture or excess inventory,'' she added.
This includes inventory such as computers and office furniture.
But it always has value so that they can have a write off in their taxes and we can have money for graduate students' studies, Egasse said. by CNB