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Portfolio Companies in the News

Specialty Food Products

Blue Smoke Salsa

WCHS TV, Traveling West Virginia, Interview with Robin Hildebrand, owner. May 2011. (Video)

WV Department of Commerce. “Governor Manchin Honors State’s Export Business.”  May 13, 2010.

Inside Backstreet. “Finding Success with the Right Ingredients.” Winter 2009.

Bon Appetit, Blue Smoke Salsa' Hot Pepper Jelly and Triple-X Hot Salsa is the featured 'What to Buy' food in Bon Apetit's "United Plates of America: A guide to the best things to eat, drink, and buy in all 50 states." May 2009.

WCHS TV, Traveling West Virginia, "Blue Smoke Salsa, West Virginia's best salsa, gets even better." September 2008. (Video)

 

The Crazy Baker

WVNS, "Southern Living Book Profiles Two Greenbrier Businesses." May 17, 2011.

WBOY News, "Restaurant Road Trip" (video). Spring 2011

 

West Virginia Living, "The Crazy Baker." Winter 2009

The State Journal, "The Crazy Baker Strives to Make Knees Buckle." June, 6 2008.

 

Custard Stand Food Products

The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog. “Flatwoods HDJ Review- Custard Stand.” July 15, 2009.

State Journal. "Custard Stand Chili Among NCIF’s Success Stories." July, 11, 2008.

 

First Fruits Beverage Co.

SWVA Today.  “Company Plans to Take Job Applications in Mid-July.”;  June 29, 2008.

Smyth County News. “First Fruits to Bring Operation to Vacant Marion Plant.” June 18, 2008.


Sustainable Tourism

Harmon's North Fork Cottages

The State Journal. “55 Good Things about West Virginia: Harman’s Cabins: Lodgings for the Love of North Fork.”  May 14, 2010.

Log Home Living Magazine. “Best Cabins: Harman’s Cabin #16.” July 2009.

Fly Rod Chronicles filmed at Harman’s. 2009.

 

Wilderness Voyagers

USA Today. “Bike Tours of Gettysburg, PA.”

Forest Products

Image Tree

Wall Street Journal, "What's New" in Technology section. June 2, 2009.

TechJournal South, "ImageTree Spreads Branches for its Geospatial Imaging Tech." May 13, 2009.

State Journal, "ImageTree Corp. Takes Technology from the Forests to the Intelligence Community." May 8, 2009.

Venture Beat, "The forest has…ears? CIA invests in ImageTree." May 4, 2009.

Biomass Magazine, "ImageTree prepares to measure forest carbon change", March 2009.

The State Journal, "ImageTree Embraces Green Expansion Project," April 11, 2008.

American Venture Magazine, "Battelle Ventures Leads $4.5-Million Oversubscribed Series B Round for Forestry Co.: Funding for ImageTree Corp. Marks First for Firm," November 2, 2007.

Red Herring, "VCs Bark Up ImageTree With $4.5M," October 30, 2007.

 

Laurel Creek Hardwoods

W.K. Kellogg Foundation News Highlights, "Natural Capital Investment Fund Helps Local Entrepreneur Build on Appalachia’s Natural Forest Assets," June 2008.

 

Manufacturing

Renick Millworks

Register-Herald, "Renick Millworks." August 2011.

The State Journal, "2010 Young Entrepreneur Keeps His Feet on the Floor." May 2010.

The West Virginia Record. “2010 West Virginia Small Business Award Winners Announced.”  March 11, 2010.
 

 

Washington Homeopathic Products

WV Department of Commerce“Governor Manchin Honors State’s Export Business.”  May 13, 2010.

The Morgan Messenger.  “Joe Lillard Receives National Recognition.”   May 6, 2009.

West Virginia Public Radio, "Zicam scare doesn’t affect Berkeley Springs business." July 8, 2009.

Wonderful West Virginia Magazine, "Homeopathic Powerhouse," February, 2008.

B2B Outlook: The Panhandle’s Monthly Business Magazine, "Medicine Man, Business Man," December 2007. (View PDF) (Reprinted with permission)

The Oprah Winfrey Show, "What the Stylemakers Can't Live Without: Washington Homeopathic Products Homeopathic Remedy Kit a favorite of Cindy Crawford," October, 30, 2007.

 

Green Building

Green Opportunities, Inc. (GO!)

Thanks to a $4 Million grant from HUD, the Asheville local housing authority (HACA) will partner with GO to do a multi-year green retrofit of the W.C. Reid Center.  "Hud Awards Nearly $34 Million To 10 Public Housing Authorities To Create Education Centers For Children, Adults." May 25, 2011.

LightsON!

West Virginia Commerce. “Serial Entrepreneurs Grow Green Business, Value Place.”

The State Journal. “Generation Next 2009: Brandon Holmes.”  April 16, 2009.

"LightsON! West Virginia Gives New, Green Life to Oak Hill Building," July 18, 2008.

"Renick Millworks Finds New Uses for Old Wood," July 18, 2008

The Register-Herald, "Group wants to make state’s downtown buildings ‘green’," November 1, 2008.

 

Renewable Energy

FLS Energy, Inc.

“Green Marines: Camp Lejeune Buys Into Solar Power NPR All Tech Considered.” June 21, 2010.

WNC Magazine. “Sustainability: Evergreen Solar Farm- Western North Carolina’s First Solar Field Makes Good Use of Wasted Space.” June 3, 2010.

Asheville Citizen-Times. “Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Installing 39 Solar Panels.” June 1, 2010.

“8 FLS Energy Projects to Receive N.C. State Energy Office Grant.”  May 28, 2010.

Cleantech News, "North Carolina landfill going solar," October 27, 2008.

Natural Capital Investment Fund

 

Marketwise, "Green Financing Opportunities: Taking a Chance on a Green Future." Spring/Summer 2009.

The State Journal, "Bringing Back the Farmer. Locally grown foods the mission of new farm research center." October 31, 2008.

"Natural Capital Investment Fund Works to Help Economy, Environment," July 11, 2008.

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