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The big picture - It was another booming year for construction and industry-related businesses on this year’s list of Top 100 Private Companies.
Gem dandies - Lee Michael Berg prepares his sons to preserve the legacy that is his jewelry stores.
Food fight - Capitol City Produce trucks roll on through high fuel costs and the continuing salmonella scare.
At your convenience - The relationship between Lyons Specialty Company and AA Vending Service has been a profitable one since 1946.
HOW THE LIST COMES TOGETHER
In the spring, Business Report sent out letters and emails to all companies from recent lists, those identified as possible qualifiers and those suggested by readers. We also placed notices on our Web sites asking companies to post their information or send it by fax or mail. We followed up with faxes, phone calls and research to confirm the data. In some cases, we looked at related industry performance and other business compilations to estimate revenue. Some companies declined to reveal their numbers, so we relied on public information and sources to make reasonable estimates.
Companies were ranked according to their reported or estimated revenue for the most recently completed fiscal year, which in most cases was the calendar year 2007.
HERE’S HOW WE FARED
We ask for your numbers. So here are ours.
Louisiana Business Inc., which publishes Business Report, 10/12 magazine, 225 magazine, the online Daily Report and Real Estate Weekly and a variety of contract publications saw revenue rise 17% in 2007 to $6,971,246 from $5,949,462 in 2006. The company has 47 full-time employees, all working in Baton Rouge at the downtown corporate headquarters.
Chairman/Publisher Rolfe McCollister Jr. founded the company in 1982. President/Associate Publisher Julio Melara is a partner in the company.
Comments
Posted by surfdog1958 on July 16, 2008 at noon (Suggest removal)
Is anyone else able to download or view the list.pdf file?
Posted by lsus2k on July 16, 2008 at 1:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
No luck. The download begins, then stops at 619 KB.
Posted by mtmlandry1 on July 16, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)
If you right click on "click here to download....", and save the file to your desktop, you can open it after it downloads.
Posted by surfdog1958 on July 16, 2008 at 3:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)
That works. Should have thought of that myself.
Posted by john70802 on July 26, 2008 at 6:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)
USAgencies Management Services, #93 on the list, is a subsidiary of a publicly traded company, Affirmative Insurance Holdings.
Affirmative completed the acquisition of the USAgencies units - Management Services, Casualty Insurance, Direct Insurance, and LIFCO - in February 2007.
Affirmative is publicly traded on NASDAQ (symbol: AFFM).
At the time of the acquisition, Affirmative was trading at 17.55. The stock has been in a freefall ever since - it closed yesterday at 6.69.
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