Tuesday — The 29th annual Business Awards & Hall of Fame banquet, presented by Business Report and Junior Achievement, will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 4728 Constitution Ave. Sponsors are Franklin Data Empowered Direct Mail and Capital One Bank. The 2012 honorees, as selected by a community panel, are: Richard Lipsey and Brace Godfrey Jr., Hall of Fame inductees; Art Favre of Performance Contractors, Businessperson of the Year; Stafford Kendall of Covalent Logic, Young Businessperson of the Year; The Newtron Group, Company of the Year (100 or more employees); and ShoppersChoice.com, Company of the Year (less than 100 employees).
Thursday — BRSocMe, or the Baton Rouge Social Media Association, holds its monthly meeting at noon at the Louisiana Technology Park, 7117 Florida Blvd. Robin Schooling, vice president of human resources at the Louisiana Lottery Corp., is guest speaker. Lunch will be provided and is free for professional level members, $5 for nonmembers.
Friday — LSU and the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute will honor those included on the second list of the LSU 100: Fastest Growing Tiger Businesses, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at a Renaissance Hotel, 7000 Bluebonnet Blvd. The LSU 100 celebrates the success of former LSU students and recognizes the impact they’ve had on the local, regional and national economies. See this year’s complete list of honorees here. Full ticket details and online registration are available here.
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