In a move Wall Street analysts are calling “most perplexing,” Philip Morris and Circuit City announced a $7.2 billion merger this morning that will create the world’s largest – and only – consumer electronics retailing tobacco company.
The new entity, officials said, will specialize in marketing several proprietary products, such as the high-definition cigarette, called the [...]

Richmond printer and proprietor of Markwith Printhouse Craig Markwith told reporters this morning that he was “shocked, absolutely shocked” that a designer didn’t care for an aqueous coating on an event flyer – particularly when the 100-pound cover-weight paper was printed with a full bleed of Reflex Blue, the PMS ink known for its long drying [...]

Hours after Media General Inc. announced the purchase of local news Web site Richmond.com, city blogger John F. Sarvay told reporters that he “really, really hopes” the Fortune 500 company buys him next.
“It would be so super awesome,” said Sarvay, who since 2002 has written the Buttermilk & Molasses blog, and estimates he could be “picked up” [...]

Ukrop’s Super Markets Inc. plans to close down The Crappy One, its not-so-Ukrop’s-like store on the Virginia Commonwealth University campus, the family owned grocery chain said today.
The Crappy One, the company said, has been under-performing compared to its other stores, such as The Really Awesome Big One off Staples Mill Road, The One With The [...]

A southwestern U.S. company that does marketing, energy, is perhaps information technology-related or none or all of the above announced plans today to move its headquarters to the Richmond area.
Enterprise Solutions Inc., which describes itself as a “facilities-based holding company that thinks outside the box, putting a direct emphasis on brand awareness by leveraging synergies [...]

Sources: Foreign Man At Tobacco Co. Wants To Buy You A, How You Say, Drink
According to sources familiar with the situation, a man of European descent sitting at the bar of Richmond's Tobacco Company Restaurant wants to buy you a, how you say, drink. "Afterward, maybe we could, how you say, go back to my hotel," the foreign man was overheard saying to you in what appeared to ...

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