Business

Networking is all about building relationships. And in the eyes of networking expert Ivan Misner, it is during tough stretches such as the one brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic that businesspeople need to work harder than ever to maintain their networks.

S&W Wholesale Foods is developing a $12 million multi-temperature wholesale food distribution center near Hammond, according to an announcement from Gov. John Bel Edwards. 

The Metro Council today will take up Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome’s plan for spending nearly $12.6 million in federal grant money. 

One of the silver linings of “going virtual” during the pandemic, at least for local organizations, was being able to reach a broader digital audience, and, in turn, gathering ideas from experts who might not have been able to visit Baton Rouge otherwise.

An Amedisys-owned business has landed a partnership with Penn State Health and Highmark Health to operate Penn State Health Home Recovery Care, a venture launching in the first half of 2022. 

Baton Rouge-based BBQGuys and Velocity Acquisition Corp. today announced they have agreed to terminate their planned merger due to the impact of global supply chain issues on BBQGuys’ business. 

Work is underway on the mixed-use portion of Harveston, the traditional neighborhood development at Nicholson Drive and Bluebonnet Boulevard, developer Mike Wampold says.

The 2020 holiday season saw a huge drop in travel, especially at usually busy airports. But as COVID-19 numbers drop and travel picks back up, the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport should edge closer to pre-pandemic travel numbers.

The nation's commercial casinos took home nearly $14 billion in third-quarter revenue this year, marking the industry's best quarter ever, and pushing U.S. casino revenue past the total for all of 2020, according to figures released Tuesday.

LABI: Tickets for the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry’s Business and Boots block party Thursday are still available. The event, which follows the...

A new fitness and entertainment franchise called Crunch Baton Rouge is opening on Airline Highway in the Hammond Aire Plaza shopping center next month.

Some of the practices the legal profession adopted to mitigate the risk of spreading COVID-19 may continue to be common after the pandemic is over, attorneys say.

Tourism in downtown Baton Rouge continues to be on the upswing, according to Karron Alford, director of marketing and technology for Visit Baton Rouge, who presented an update at this morning’s Downtown Development District meeting.

Anyone who’s shopped for a car this year knows that new ones are hard to get and used ones have gotten way more expensive,...

On Oct. 1, the federal government made major changes to the National Flood Insurance Program over howls of protest from members of Louisiana’s congressional...

Congress passed the $1 trillion infrastructure deal late Friday and President Biden signed it Saturday, providing Louisiana with billions in infrastructure funding. So what will Baton Rouge gain?

Commercial users and those from outside of East Baton Rouge Parish would pay more to use the parish’s North Landfill under a proposal on Wednesday’s Metro Council agenda. 

Its private employer vaccine mandate on hold, the Biden administration wants the multiple challenges to its workplace rule—including Louisiana Secretary of State Jeff Landry’s—consolidated in a single federal court and has asked for a decision by early next week.

Even though the U.S. has a record number of job openings and companies complain they can’t find enough workers, some job seekers remain frustrated that they have not been able to get a job despite filling out dozens of applications daily on popular job sites like ZipRecruiter, Indeed, LinkedIn and Craigslist. 

Jovin Webb brought Louisiana soul to American Idol.