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Business & Growth

The Farmville area has a diversified economy, with the Town of Farmville serving as the hub of commercial activity for an eight-county region. The area has a service market in excess of 100,000 people. Numerous shopping centers and a historic downtown shopping district offer a retail selection to rival metropolitan areas.

The industrial base of the region includes, but is not limited to:

• Paris Ceramics USA, Inc., which manufactures high end stone tiles, countertops, and specialty decorative stone items.

• Tri-Boro Shelving and Partition Corporation, a metal shelving and material handling products company.

• CMC Rebar Virginia, which manufactures rebar for the construction industry.

• Gemini, Inc., a metal sign and lettering fabricator.

• Buffalo Shook Company, Inc., which manufactures wood products.

• STEPS, Inc., which offers recycling services and manufactures apparel items.

• Riverside Industries, a German-based company manufacturing release agents and additives.

• Asal Lumber Company, a lumber company.

• CF Marion Trucking Company, Inc., area trucking.

• Covance Research Products, animal research.

Abundant forest resources foster diversified wood products, pulpwood, and sawmill industries. Tobacco, poultry, and livestock comprise the major agricultural components of the local economy.

The Farmville area offers excellent publicly owned site options for industrial and business locations in the Prince Edward County Business Park, the Farmville Industrial Park, Riverside Industrial Park, and the Virginia’s Heartland Regional Park in Keysville.