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Upgrade Your Travel With Covington
06 days
by M. Fletcher
in Richmond Business
When you want to travel in style and comfort, Glen Allen based Covington Travel is there to help you with your planning needs. Whether you are looking to book business travel, plan a meeting, or plan the perfect vacation or even a cruise, the professionals at Covington travel are there to improve your travel experience from the first step out your door until you place your head back on your own pillow at home.
Well, you may have to take care of getting to and from the airport, but Covington Travel can help you with the most reliable flights and the best meeting venue. And, when you want to get away, Covington can help you plan the perfect vacation.
Covington has been upgrading your travel since 1967 when it began as a two person business. Josée Covington established the company in an era when airline and cruise tickets were handwritten. It helps that she’s fluent in five languages and is herself a world-wide travel. Her sons, Paul and Denny now help the agency to remain on top of the cutting edge of travel trends.
Today, Covington is in the top one percent of travel management companies located in the United States. Founded with the goal of upgrading the travel experience, Covington continues to provide exceptional service.
What the Covington team knows is that whether it’s individual travel or a corporation the smallest details are important. President and CEO Josée Covington says “Nothing is as important as the relationships we build with our clients, our suppliers, and our own colleagues. Not even the bottom line.”
With Covington you can upgrade the way you experience travel. After all, just because you’re traveling for business, there’s no reason to be miserable. Covington can make even business travel seem enjoyable.
What Covington understands about business travel is that it’s more than just getting the airline tickets. After all, you can do that online. But it takes professionals like those at Covington to be able to find the best deals, saving you time and money.
So maybe you not only need to travel for business, but you need to book facilities for a meeting was well. Covington can help you create distinctive meetings and events. Their experience with destinations and venues can save you lots of time that you might spend searching for just the right spot. More than that, the professional planners at Covington take care of all the endless hours of planning and details, bringing you a meeting that is flawlessly executed.
Dreaming of vacations can be fun. But sorting through websites and travel guides and brochures to find the best deals, reliable transportation and suitable accommodations can have you worn out before you even get to your destination. Allow Covington to help make your vacation more enjoyable by allowing their travel advisors to handle the details.
In a society where news is 24-hours and people are tethered to their phones and computers, every minute that can be saved by allowing professionals like Covington to take care of your travel, meeting and vacation needs is time you can spend on that next project, meeting with a client, or best of all, relaxing with the family.
That’s what Covington Travel can do for you with their knowledge and expertise as well as their many connections around the globe. They can create custom travel experiences and itineraries to meet your needs and preferences. As a member of Virtuoso, Covington has the added benefit of being able to offer you perks and upgrades that are not available to the general public. Because they deal with multiple clients, carriers and destinations on a day to day basis, Covington has access to deals and bargains that they’re more than happy to pass along to you.
If you’re looking to upgrade your travel experience, Covington Travel can do that for you.
Conquest Graphics: When the Print You Demand Needs to Be the Best
0286 days
by M. Fletcher
in Richmond Business
Conquest Graphics was already well established in the printing industry before deciding to take their business to the Internet in 2006. As one of the largest and oldest printing companies in the mid-Atlantic region Conquest Graphics saw the opportunity to offer quality commercial printing at discount prices worldwide.
Conquest Graphics is an online printing company that offers discount printing to businesses, organizations and individuals. They’ve been in the business for nearly a century, so they know the printing business.
When you have printing needs, Conquest Graphics believes that you shouldn’t have to sacrifice quality for price. Likewise you shouldn’t have to pay exorbitant prices for quality printing.
While more and more of today’s business is done over the Internet, print products such as brochures and business cards still have a permanent quality and serve specific purposes.
Conquest Graphics offers templates to help you design your product, then you upload your file to them and they take it from there. They offer expert advice that’s based in market research as well as years of experienced.
There’s a difference between discount printing and printing at a cheap price. There’s the old adage that you get what you pay for and that’s true. But when you’re working with an established company such as Conquest Graphics, you know that you’re getting the benefit of years of experience, talent and marketing knowledge that will not only help you with your design, but can, because of volume and skill that speeds up the process offer your quality print product at a reduced price while not cheapening the quality of your work.
Don’t be mistaken, there are many online printing sources and many companies offering cheap printing. You can find printing options for business cards, posters, newsletters, catalogs and more with one stop shopping online.
Conquest Graphics certainly wants your business, but they also offer buying advice for those seeking online printing. They encourage you to look for a reputable online printing company, take a look at their template pages and see what they have available.
The new trend in business and in the printing industry is going “green” to save the environment. Many print companies talk about their commitment to being eco-friendly. While a lot of companies talk about environmental stewardship, Conquest Graphics has been a leader in eco-friendly green printing since before it was the “right” thing to do. All Conquest Graphics standard papers are FSC-certified recycled papers that are elemental chlorine-free and contain a minimum of 10% post-consumer waste.
Because people’s needs change and industry changes, Conquest Graphics has their own blog talking about trends as well as printing and design tips to make your products the best possible.
Not just limiting their services to printing, Conquest Graphics also offers graphic design, web design and hosting, mailing services and survey and data collection.
And what company is complete without their own mascot. Rocky the Aussiedoodle is a mixture of Australian Sheppard, and Poodle. Rocky also spends most of his day in the offices of Conquest Graphics, taking advantage of the dog-friendly work environment.
So, if you have printing needs, be sure to check out Conquest Graphics. You’ll be glad you did.
Custom Concessions: A Whole New Look at Eating on the Road
0401 days
by M. Fletcher
in Richmond Business
Photo: Custom Concessions, Inc.
If you’ve been to a fair, festival or a sporting event, you’ve likely seen one of Custom Concessions food trailers in action. Only you didn’t realize it because it was designed for one of their high profile customers such as the Washington Redskins, Domino’s Pizza, NASCAR, Haagen-Dazs and even the United States Army.
Custom Concessions manufactures custom built concession trailers. Because their highly skilled professionals take pride in their craft, Custom Concessions is recognizes as the leader in their industry.
Events that take place at large venues don’t often have onsite catering or supply kitchens for caterers and vendors to use. That’s where Custom Concessions comes in. Instead of the caterer having to load large separate vehicles with everything they’ll need to provide their goods and services, a mobile catering truck can meet the needs and allow time to prep, cook and serve all on site.
This not only saves time and money, but it provides a better, and more appealing product to customers. Transporting and serving fresh, hot food is a challenge and sometimes impossible. But with a mobile catering trailer, food can be prepared on site whether at a game day tailgate, a park or an outdoor festival or fair.
So if you’re in the catering business, you’ve got an option to serve your clients even when there’s no kitchen available. They can build a trailer to meet your needs, whether they be large or small. The walls, flooring and roofing are selected and designed to provide a safe, healthy workspace so that you can worry about the recipe and not the equipment.
You’re not limited in your catering choices with Custom Concessions. Types of trailers offered include: mobile kitchen trailers, catering trucks and trailers, food trucks and trailers, BBQ trailers, restroom trailers and even living quarter trailers. Custom Concessions builds to please so you’ll be satisfied whether you’re seeking a BBQ smoker trailer for competitions or a single-item food truck for things like ice cream, funnel cakes, sushi and more. The choices are only limited by your imagination and your recipe book.
Focusing on every aspect of the design, the Custom Concessions builders work with you for floor planning, the selection of cooking equipment and more to design a product that will far exceed your expectations. Your opportunities will be endless.
But not only that Health-Department trained experts at Custom Concessions will work with you to help navigate local health codes and prepare you for that all important visit from the health inspector. So instead of sifting through mounds of bureaucratic paperwork and red tape, you can get to work, and more importantly to cooking, right away.
Custom Concessions is highly motivated to provide you a quality product. Not only do they want you to be a satisfied customer, but your trailer or truck carries their company name and is a testimony to their quality and a draw for new business. Your success is their success.
Because sometimes it really is all about the food, the folks at Custom Concessions also have a supporting blog called Dining and Driving. There you can find their best recommendations for new places to eat while on the road, whether its long-time established restaurants, concession stands on the side of the road, or annual festivals.
Anybody hungry yet?
Harrison’s of Leesburg: For the Better Dressed Gentleman
0648 days
by M. Fletcher
in Richmond Business
While attire in the workplace has become increasingly casual, there are still times when a gentleman needs to dress his best. And, sometimes being the best-dressed means not buying your suit off the rack at the local department store.
Powell Harrison of Harrison’s of Leesburg seeks to meet the needs of those men who don’t know what to wear. Or, to borrow a phrase, What Not to Wear.
A mathematics major at VMI, Harrison found his calling some years back when he took a job with Men’s Wearhouse. Harrison says, “To buy myself some time to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life, I looked for a low-pressure job that I thought I would enjoy for a few months, so I took a job in a men’s clothing store. I never expected to get hooked! After more than seven years growing and thriving at the Men’s Wearhouse, I launched Harrison’s of Leesburg in February, 2008.” Why not “Harrison’s of Richmond?” The Leesburg in the name, says Harrison, is a nod to his family heritage.
Harrison’s offers in-home wardrobe consulting, custom and ready-made clothing and a line of cufflinks to retailers. Harrison says he gets most of his business through personal referrals, and networking. He also takes advantage of speaking opportunities as they arise.
Harrison says that he’s always had an eye for detail, something he learned from his grandfather whom he describes as, “the consummate Virginia gentleman and a very snappy dresser.” Once he realized that this was his career path, he embarked upon a time of self education and research, visiting and talking with men’s wardrobe departments. Harrison also recommends these books, Alan Flusser’s Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion, Gentleman: A Timeless Guide to Fashion by Bernhard Roetzel, and the How to Be a Gentleman series of guides from John Bridges, and says that these books along with his personal attention to detail have rounded out his education.
According to Harrison, the blind spot for many men is their wardrobe. Most men assume they get along just fine. He says, “A gentleman who buys from a retailer or “cloth-slinger” doesn’t always get personalized advice and recommendations that are in his best interests; a man who uses a consultant as a shopping assistant must pay for both the time and the product.” His consulting allows the customer to strategically purchase for his wardrobe using the guidelines of Scope, Suitability, Condition, and Fit.
For the man not inclined to hire a personal consultant, Harrison very generously offers 10 Rules of Thumb on his website. What used to be basic knowledge for the business man, and men in general is outlined so that even the clumsiest of dressers can get it right; or at least better.
Harrison carries his own sense of personal style which includes, wearing his grandfather’s 1940s tails with beaver top hat, white kid gloves and cane to formal occasions; and donning one of the 20 hats from his vintage collection almost every day.
And about those hats? Harrison points out that it’s not just about fashion.
“I learned it at VMI; a gentleman tips his hat to a lady when he passes her on the avenue.”
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