Published: August 30, 2008 10:48 pm         

Bookkeeping company expands into Raleigh

Bookkeeping Express, a national chain that focuses solely on bookkeeping services, plans to add upwards of five locations throughout the region, including one in Raleigh County, company officials told me last week.

Greg Jones, an experienced entrepreneur and chief executive officer of Bookkeeping Express, announced the company’s expansion into Raleigh County as part of the company’s aggressive national development plans, which call for more than 400 new territories.

“With more than 28 million small businesses around the United States, Bookkeeping Express offers a much-needed service to companies that are not equipped or do not wish to handle accounting responsibilities such as setting up charts of accounts and general ledgers, monthly data entry, processing and managing accounts payable and accounts receivable, producing monthly reports and tax reporting,” Jones said.

“Plus, Bookkeeping Express utilizes an alternative pricing model that is based on the clients’ needs instead of a one fits all, hourly billing approach.”

Initially targeting growth throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, Bookkeeping Express will turn its attention to the rest of the United States in the months that follow, Jones adds.

“We are ecstatic about expanding from our corporate market in the D.C. metropolitan area,” said Jones. “Now more than ever, small business owners need our support so they focus on what is important to them … growing their business.”

Bookkeeping Express, a national company focused on providing professional bookkeeping practices to small and mid-size businesses, was founded in 1984 in California and grew to over 150 locations through licensing agreements. In 2007, Jones, along with Bob Stocker and Merritt Green, purchased the company and launched the new business model in McLean, Va., in January 2008. Bookkeeping Express is currently licensed to franchise in 41 states.

For more information, visit www.bookkeepingexpress.us or call 1-877-525-5337.



It was reported that America’s Mattress in Beckley shut down earlier this month.

The problem is that some former customers have complained that the company took layaway money, but didn’t get a refund when the business closed.

The West Virginia attorney general’s office is investigating the complaints, but can’t comment while it’s ongoing.

America’s Mattress is part of a national chain with around 400 independently-owned franchise stores throughout the country.

Apparently the owner of the Beckley store also owned shops in Hurricane and Cross Lanes that also closed down.

Any America’s Mattress customers with similar complaints should contact the state attorney general’s office at 1-800-368-8808.

(Pace is a reporter with The Register-Herald.)

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