Business News

🔒 Tax tips for the self-employed

Owning your own business or being your own boss can be exciting—but it can...

🔒 Merger flurry: Regulations spark a wave of consolidations among smaller banks

United Community Bank opened in 1998 to fill a perceived need for a local...

🔒 Talking Points: Ben Carson

Ben Carson Author, retired neurosurgeon Gov. Bobby Jindal is not the only 2016 Republican presidential hopeful...

🔒 Businessperson of the Year: John Valluzzo

John Valluzzo has been part of a McDonald’s family almost his entire life. He...

🔒 Hall of Fame: Lane Grigsby

As a boy in Alexandria, Louisiana, Lane Grigsby grew up with few material resources...

🔒 The dojo entrepreneur

From a modest building in Baton Rouge, He-Young Kimm oversees 55 martial arts school...

🔒 The $6.2 billion takeover

With the acquisition of Rockwood Holdings Inc., Baton Rouge-based Albemarle emerges as major player in the...

🔒 Case Study: What can I do to manage the transition to a new boss after current employees assumed the duties of the previous...

Change in the workplace can be unsettling for employees, yet it is inevitable and necessary...

🔒 Tom Cook: Skate Heaven sells

The owners of the shuttered Skate Heaven in Denham Springs have sold the property...

🔒 Company of the Year (fewer than 100 employees): InfiniEDGE

In a world where consumers are always chasing after rapidly changing technology, Czarina Walker,...