Kaplan expands real estate licensing The Washington Post’s Kaplan division is expanding its footprint in the real estate licensing business, acquiring J.Y. Monk for an undisclosed sum.
J.Y. Monk provides real estate licensing and continuing education for real estate agents in North Carolina. The acquisition of the 35-year-old company makes Kaplan Real Estate Education, which already offers broker exam preparation and licensing programs in North Carolina, the largest provider of them in the state.
It becomes part of Kaplan’s professional education division, which also operates licensing and continuing education courses for accountants, insurance agents and financial planners.
GTEC cooks up $48m kitchen deal
McLean-based Global Defense Technology & Systems Inc. will provide the U.S. Marine Corps with portable kitchens that will feed troops in the field three square meals a day.
The company, which has provided the military with hundreds of portable Expeditionary Field Kitchens, has won a new contract to deliver up to 150 of them to the Marine Corps. The five-year contract includes initial orders worth more than $21 million, the company says.
Expeditionary Field Kitchens are self-contained, rugged and transportable commercial-grade kitchens. Each can provide troops with 500 meals, three times a day.
The portable kitchens will be manufactured at a GTEC facility in Easton, Md.
Area hospitality jobs jump
The District, Maryland and Virginia all added a healthy number of jobs in the hospitality and leisure industry in the past year, according to a Business First analysis of federal data.
In all, 30 states and D.C. have seen increases in leisure and hospitality employment.
Maryland’s hospitality job growth ranks sixth-largest in the nation, adding 9,300 jobs between 2009 and 2010. Virginia’s growth ranks ninth, with 7,800 new hospitality jobs in the past year. The District has added 1,400 such jobs in the past year.
All counted, the hospitality industry in Maryland, Virginia and D.C. employs 635,500 people.
