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2019 Forty Under 40
Business Report's 2019 Forty Under 40 honors the Capital Region’s brightest young leaders, innovators and business professionals.
Baton Rouge restauranteurs are expanding their foodie brands.
Each has their own style and game plan, but collectively these restaurant owners are expanding their local brands across the state, the country and, in one case, the world.
The Best Places to Work in Baton Rouge in 2019
The 50 companies on this year’s Best Places to Work list demonstrate what it means to care about employees, serving as a model for other businesses.
Baton Rouge metro to add 11,700 jobs over the next two years
A series of announced large-scale private and public construction projects should kickstart what’s been a three-year lull in industrial projects in the Baton Rouge...
To be or not Airbnb
Whole-house short-term rentals from companies like Airbnb are creating controversy in Spanish Town and elsewhere in Baton Rouge. Regulations are coming, but it’s clear not everyone will be happy.
The Water Institute of the Gulf has an identity crisis
The Water Institute of the Gulf, following a public embarrassment, finds itself answering critics about its role and evolving revenue streams. Institute officials counter the only problem is one of public relations.
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,...
