Surry Business

In a recent six-week sales period, the Sears Roebuck and Co. authorized retail store at 1217 W. Lebanon in Mount Airy had the largest improvement in sales among the eight stores in its North Carolina district. Surry County’s sole Sears store sells appliances, lawn and garden equipment, electronics, Craftsman tools and exercise equipment. It’s open […]

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LGS Transport in Mount Airy, formerly at 221 Snowhill Drive, has moved its headquarters to 137 Landform Lane off of Old U.S. 601. The company provides general freight hauling and also lowboy trailers for transporting vehicles, heavy equipment and specialized machinery. It make deliveries and pickups in all of the “lower 48” states. LGS Transport’s […]

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Surry County-based staffing service Workforce Carolina has promoted Kendra Garaventa to vice president of sales and marketing and Traci Hamilton to director of operations. Garaventa also will be responsible for the company’s new business development and customer retention. She is a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill graduate who joined WorkForce Carolina three years ago. Hamilton […]

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Surry Community College in Dobson is rapidly expanding its facilities to train welders, Brooke R. Corwin reports today in The Surry Messenger. As SurryBusiness.com reported previously, a shortage of welders and other metal fabricators is preventing or delaying several companies’ expansion in Surry County. The college offers welding classes, but has had trouble attracting prospective […]

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John S. Clark Company, LLC, of Mount Airy has formed a new Building Improvement Division, succeeding and expanding its former Special Projects group. Vice President Bill Sinclair will head the new division located at 11 Brookstown Ave. in downtown Winston-Salem. Sinclair joined the company in 2005. He has 15 years’ experience in commercial construction in […]

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Smith Phillips Building Supply, a Winston-Salem distributor of building materials, is closing its Elkin sales branch, The Business Journal of the Greater Triad reports. The move will cut about five positions, the firm said. Some employees will have the opportunity to transfer to other Smith Phillips Building Supply locations. “Consolidation of the facility has been […]

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Casey A. Vedder has opened White Sulphur Springs Physical Therapy at 2994 Riverside Drive just north of Willis Gap Road outside Mount Airy. The clinic shares the building also occupied by Dr. Robert W. Hower’s White Sulphur Springs Chiropractic Center. Vedder earned a bachelor’s degree at St. Johns University in Collegeville, Minn., and his master’s […]

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Because construction work on the new Surgical Services building is about to begin, Northern Hospital of Surry County has closed its main public, patient, and visitor parking in front of the Martin Memorial Building on Rockford Street in Mount Airy. Motorists will be redirected to the Worth Street parking lot. Signs will be posted. A […]

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An “economic summit” where citizens can offer their suggestions for economic development in Mount Airy will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, in the Olympia Restaurant on Riverside Drive at Linville Road. City commissioners Deborah Cochran and Dean Brown set up the meeting. Both campaigned last year on promises to stimulate economic development and […]

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Insteel Industries of Mount Airy will webcast its first-quarter 2008 earnings conference call at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 17. The company will release its first-quarter financial results at 8:30 a.m. that day. The conference call can be accessed on the company’s website where it will be archived for replay.

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