Monogram Food Solutions LLC will create 150 jobs at its Henry County plant, most of them by the end of this year, to bring its total number of employees to about 400, officials announced Friday.

Monogram, which is based in Memphis, Tenn., produces processed meat products in the Patriot Centre industrial park. Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, who attended the announcement, said Virginia successfully competed with two other states to win the expansion project.

Governor Bob McDonnell and Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, who serves as Virginia’s Chief Jobs Creation Officer, issued the following joint statement this afternoon regarding news that Stanley Furniture will lay off 530 workers currently employed at their Henry County plant…

From drawing board to Tuesday’s groundbreaking, Alpha Natural Resources’ new $21 million corporate headquarters already has grown by more than 20 percent. It has been that kind of meteoric rise for the nation’s third-largest coal company, which formed just eight years ago. On a bluff overlooking Sugar Hollow Park on Tuesday, state and local officials joined about 200 company employees to celebrate the start of site work for the 130,000-square-foot, five-story building. Alpha CEO Kevin Crutchfield recounted some of that growth during the ceremony.

Faneuil Inc. will hire at least 250 employees during the next three years for a call center it will open in August at The Clock Tower at Commonwealth Centre in Martinsville, state and local officials announced Wednesday.
The call center will serve customers of Dominion Virginia Power, a company that supplies electricity to other parts of …

Notwithstanding the state’s $4.2 billion shortfall, he vowed to double the Governor’s Opportunity Fund – a source of grants to entice businesses to move to the state – to $20 million a year. As of 2005, a similar fund in North Carolina was three times as large, McDonnell said. “No wonder we’re getting beat,” he said last week…