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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.
Maternity Clothes for the Savvy Expectant Mom
0335 days
by M. Fletcher
in Richmond Business
In the current economic times starting or expanding your family can be a frightening proposition. How are you going to feed and clothe the child as well as yourself? That’s where eMommie.com comes in. eMommie is an online maternity bargain boutique offering new and pre-loved maternity clothing.
What began with one woman working out of her home has quickly grown to a five person team working from their office turned showroom. In the first year alone, eMommie.com had more than 500% growth and averaged more than 20,000 monthly visitors to the site.
eMommie is the only major Internet resources for women to shop for and purchase new and gently-owned maternity clothing.
Think about it. In most cases women “show” in the latter six months of pregnancy. Hardly time for quality maternity clothes to be worn out. eMommie offers women the unique opportunity for resale.
Expectant mothers can purchase barely worn apparel or new off-price maternity clothing at a fraction of the original department store retail price.
In addition to bargain, quality clothing, eMommie serves as a resource to mothers who want to recoup some of the expense invested into a short term maternity wardrobe.
eMommie.com will pay cash for gently worn maternity clothes and accessories. They’ll even buy back the clothing you purchased from them.
Expectant mothers often have a hard time of thinking about shopping for themselves. After all, the most important person is the baby on the way. But at eMommie.com the mom to be can be a little extravagant without feeling the pinch in the pocket book.
eMommie has a blog where women can find tips on how and when to shop for maternity clothing. They’ll give tips on pitfalls to avoid, as well as pointers on how to get what you’re looking for at pennies on the dollar.
eMommie was started by a “mompreneur” who left her job in the corporate world in 2009 with a dream to do big wonderful things. She likes to quote Albert Einstein who said “if at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” In this case, an absurd idea has turned into a huge and growing success.
There are three ways to keep up with eMommie.com.
Follow eMommie on Twitter: EmommieDotCom
Become a Facebook Fan: Facebook Emommie
Shop for Discounts: Discount Maternity Clothes
Items at eMommie are priced according to brand name, condition and current fashions. The inventory comes from women around the Internet. At eMommie, they are working to find and secure the best gently-loved maternity clothes available. They seek to purchase them at a fair rate in order to keep prices low for their customers.
While they’re based in Richmond, Virginia, that’s not a drawback for women wishing to purchase or sell clothing. Women wishing to sell need to simply download the Seller Information From and list the items they would like to sell. Once the form has been emailed the Jess@eMommie.com the seller will receive a soft offer, usually within two business days. When the offer is accepted, then the items are mailed to the Richmond address.
But because quality is important eMommie will not accept items that are stained, damaged or unclean. Mothers in the Richmond area may drop off clothes Monday through Friday at 8401 Mayland Drive, Suite P, Richmond, Virginia 23294.
Dabney Properties Offers Home on the Road
0401 days
by M. Fletcher
in Richmond Business
Photo: Dabney Properties
Judge Gideon J. Tucker once said “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
But Slayton Dabney doesn’t see it that way. In fact, he’s once again looking forward to welcoming the Virginia General Assembly when they convene for their 2011 Session in January. His company, Dabney Properties offers Richmond furnished apartments, as well as units in Fort Lee, Fredericksburg, and Charlottesville, VA.
A former IBM employee Slayton Dabney is the President of Dabney Properties, a corporate housing firm he began just a few years ago. He started his business with just one townhome, leasing it to a Mead Westvaco executive. From there his business grew.
Dabney seeks to meet the needs of those seeking upscale temporary housing. Among his clients are Virginia law makers while the General Assembly is in session. But his business also serves the needs of those on temporary business assignments or those who have had had to relocate because of their job. It’s not just the fortunate, but often clients include those displaced due to a property insurance loss.
Dabney Properties arranges temporary housing solutions not only in Richmond, but also has locations in Fredericksburg and Charlottesville. He’ll also see significant business with his Fort Lee corporate housing properties as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process.
Richmond locations include, Vistas on the James, the American Tobacco Center and Old Manchester lofts. Suburban townhomes are also available.
When you know you’re going to be away from home for a long period of time, sometimes a hotel just won’t meet your needs. Slayton Dabney understands that and has turned it into a profitable business filling an often unmet need. Dabney Properties designs their facilities for those looking at stays of thirty days or longer. Thirty days is the typical minimum stay. Shorter stays may be arranged based on availability.
Dabney bases their service on this simple philosophy:
“You work hard to create a comfortable lifestyle for you and your family. When work or life demands temporary housing, we ensure you feel at home.”
Dabney leases corporate apartments on a short-term basis to meet the needs of those on temporary assignment to a new location, or for those in need of temporary housing while searching for a permanent home. Amenities included in all Dabney Properties are: Deluxe furnishings, fully outfitted kitchens, modern appliances, personal washers and dryers, utilities, modern housewares, a DVD player, cable TV and high speed Internet. For an additional fee, housecleaning services are available.
Offering much more than just a hotel balcony, Dabney enhances relaxed living with exterior features such as furnished outdoor decks and patios, and fenced-in backyards
Billing for the property can be arranged through your business or simply placed on a major credit card.
The key here is convenience for the traveler or for the temporarily displaced. Slayton Dabney seems to have discovered what the traveling business man or woman, or the temporarily Richmond-based law maker needs the most; a place to call home away from home, whether they are in need of Richmond corporate housing or a housing in any of the other Virginia regions Mr. Dabney serves.
Fort Lee Lodging by Dabney Properties
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?