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Grocery stores specialize to compete in crowded market
In the span of a typical week, Courtney Bush will often visit three, sometimes four, different supermarkets to pick up groceries for her family.
She’ll...
Inside the world of CSRS
If there’s a major design, development, planning or transportation infrastructure project in south Louisiana, there’s a good chance Baton Rouge-based CSRS is involved in...
The Capital Region’s Top 100 private companies
As has been the case every year since 1995 but one, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana tops the annual rankings of Top...
For Sean and Kevin Reilly, buying Eatel was a family matter
In mid-October, an article appeared in a premium-membership edition of The Wall Street Journal, breaking the news that a Louisiana telecommunications company might soon...
Former Tiger Rohan Davey confirms his family named in Funes criminal case
Former LSU quarterback Rohan Davey confirmed today that his mother and sister are the Florida-based “Individuals A and B” referred to in federal court...
Dardenne: state Comite funds can’t be used to match $255M for drainage projects
As city-parish leaders try to find a source for the $2 million a year needed to match $255 million in federal funds earmarked for...
Funes to appear in court June 12
John Paul Funes, the former chief fundraiser for Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, will appear in U.S. Middle District Court on...
Boom times predicted for Baton Rouge industrial corridor
The list of megaprojects breaking ground in the industrial corridor running between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is long and getting longer. While the...
2019 Influential Women in Business
Somehow, they make it all look so easy. The high-pressure careers. The growing families. The service on local boards and volunteer efforts at area...
The bottomless business of brunch in Baton Rouge
When he opened the gourmet pizzeria, Rocca, in January 2018, restaurateur Ozzie Fernandez knew that he would eventually have to serve brunch. It didn’t...
Choppy waters at The Lake
Late on the afternoon of March 13, the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System issued a statement, announcing it had fired its CEO,...
Hiring those with disabilities isn’t charity, it’s good business
Any time Bet-R Neighborhood Market owner Cliff Boulden has a job opening, he tries to hire a person with an intellectual or developmental disability—not...
Perfection quest: Aesthetic medicine is big in Baton Rouge
Gordy Rush has an image to keep up.
As a businessman and media personality reporting from the LSU football sidelines, he’s accustomed to having his...
When will work on the Government St. ‘road diet’ end?
Drive down Government Street and you’ll see a developing Electric Depot, a finished White Star Market, an array of restaurants—Soji, Elsie’s Plate and Pie,...
Broken trust of Stanford Group fraud still impacts Baton Rouge
Kathy Mier still remembers the feeling she got in the pit of her stomach when she heard that federal agents had raided the downtown...
The 2019 Baton Rouge Business Awards and Hall of Fame
For 36 years, Business Report has been honoring leading professionals and companies in the Capital Region that distinguish themselves by not only succeeding in business,...
HOME TURF: GeoSurfaces becomes national power working with New England Patriots
In early 2019, the New England Patriots, a six-time Super Bowl champion, resurfaced their Empower Field House indoor practice facility after more than a...
St. George gets signatures needed to go before voters, registrar confirms
St. George petitioners have collected the necessary number of signatures to appear on a ballot, East Baton Rouge Parish Registrar of Voters Steve Raborn...
Stung! How a taxpayer-funded mosquito abatement facility nearly doubles in price
After years of rubber-stamping escalating spending requests, the Metro Council is now wondering how the cost of a planned $6.5 million mosquito abatement facility...
Metro Council members mum on assistant parish attorney’s sexual harassment complaint
Members of the Metro Council—which oversees the parish attorney’s office—have little to say about the assistant parish attorney who, despite a 2016 sexual harassment...
