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After a bit more than a year, Advisor PT has closed its door.

The coaching and consulting firm for independent financial advisers shut down last week.

Stuart M. Porterfield, who was the founder and managing partner of the firm, said he decided to shut down the business because of an opportunity with the RiverFront Investment Group. He will be the company’s mid-Atlantic/Northeast regional director.

“The consulting business was going well and I was fired up about the future of Advisor PT. However, the opportunity to partner with RiverFront was too good to pass up,” he said.

Porterfield spent 15 years with Wachovia Securities, most recently as a national sales manager. When the firm moved its operations to St. Louis, he decided to stay in the area. He said part of his decision to move to RiverFront was to work with some former Wachovia Securities colleagues.

Richmond BMW, Crown Mini and Richmond BMW of Midlothian sold 200 vehicles last month, which means the Richmond SPCA is getting $20,000.

For the third year, the Richmond-area automobile dealer group promised to give the SPCA $100 for every vehicle it sold in August.

The money goes to promote animal adoption.

The dealerships raised $12,000 last year and $20,100 in 2008.

Kroger customers in the Richmond area now can earn special deals using their loyalty card.

Shoppers can go online, punch in their address or ZIP code, and choose their local store. The shoppers then can access local deals and specials as well as keep track fuel points and order prescriptions.

To take advantage of the coupons, shoppers click on the voucher posted on the website and it automatically loads to their card. At checkout, the amount of the coupon is deducted

Good Wood Furniture is closing its Richmond-area store at 9125 W. Broad St. on Sept. 6.

It’s the only one of the company’s six stores to close.

Good Wood has three other Virginia locations, in Virginia Beach, Hampton and Fredericksburg. The other two stores are in South Carolina.

To clear out inventory at the Richmond store, the companyThe store is in the midst of a going-out-of-business sale. Good Wood Furniture sells finished and unfinished furniture and accessories.

The Kroger Co. has begun construction on its ninth fuel station in the Richmond area.

The station will be in the parking lot of the grocer’s store at 4816 S. Laburnum Ave. The fuel center is scheduled to open in November.

Adding a station at the Laburnum store is part of Cincinnati-based Kroger’s $81.8 million expansion plan for the Richmond market.

The company is about halfway through the project, which includes adding stores, refurbishing existing stores and adding fuel stations.

The Laburnum store also will be remodeled this year.

Where on Earth is there room? This is the most crowded and smallest Kroger store in the area with the least amount of parking.

it looks like they are tearing down the old western sizzlin’ to make room in that lot. does anyone know if the company doing the work is local or from out of town?