The Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s year-end lookback includes 17 new business or expansion announcements representing 1,800 new direct jobs and $8 billion in capital investment.
Ed Orgeron was not LSU’s first (or second) choice to lead its football program after firing Les Miles. But he led the team to a national championship in 2019, putting together arguably the greatest season in college football history.
It’s been an up and down year for auto dealers in Baton Rouge and across the country as sales have soared but products have been in short supply. Daily Report asked some local dealers to share their experiences from the past year.
Businesses rattled by high logistics costs and freight bottlenecks over the past several months are extending the workarounds they adopted and taking on new strategies to ease supply chain pain in the new year.