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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...
Baton Rouge companies out to control their health care destiny
Kerry Drake knows, perhaps better than most, the challenges businesses face when it comes to employee health care.
As an employer and president of employee...
Bringing early cancer detection to a workplace near you
Kelly Gill still carries in her wallet a printed Google image of a man suffering from basal-cell carcinoma—a type of skin cancer that when...
CBD: the new ‘green’ rush
With CBD now legal in the state, Baton Rouge area entrepreneurs are looking to cash in on the budding industry derived from hemp.
The seafood industry’s empty net syndrome impacting restaurants
Summer in Louisiana means blue crab season, when local consumers flock to seafood markets for boiled crabs and chefs add crab-centric specials to their...
Fitness is reshaping the shopping center experience
As the national retail industry continues to be disrupted, Baton Rouge’s shopping center landlords and property brokers are seeing one concept pump new life...
Entrepreneur: Matt Flynn
HOT AND BOTHERED
Matt Flynn remembers struggling to stay properly hydrated on the field as far back as his early days of playing little league...
Executive spotlight: Donn Peterson
Position: Vice President
Company: Group Industries
Age: 56 (going on 9!)
Family: Baby of five siblings
Hometown: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Education: Continuing...
In the news:
With 2018 revenue of $89...
JR Ball: Don’t blame LSU football
To the surprise of exactly no one, the instant the LSU athletic department proudly unveiled its latest keeping-up-with-the-jones Taj Mahal of a football operations...
Riegel: A bittersweet look into an emptying nest
Over the course of the next three weeks, all three of my now-grown children will be leaving Louisiana—one to Teach for America in Ohio,...
Publisher: Bob Dylan gave us all good advice in ’64
Come gather ‘round, people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time...
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 million-dollar residential question in Baton Rouge
If you want to spend at least $1 million on a ready-made home, you’ve come to the right city.
You can choose from one of...
HOPE Ministries works to bring hope to low-income employees
BREC had a problem with its workforce: Low morale and high employee turnover were affecting job performance and customer service throughout the parish parks...
Building an LSU digital campus
The number of students enrolled in LSU online programs still pales in comparison to that of traditional students at the university, but a new...
Making diversity matter in your workplace
When millennials took the baton from the baby boomers last year as the largest generation in the workforce, they also quickly stepped into their...
Giving men a voice on female empowerment
It starts with listening, but men must also have a voice when the topic is empowering women.
Female voices often dominate conversations surrounding women’s professional...
Livingston Parish high school teaching a real-world business education
She may have walked the stage to accept her high school diploma last month, but 18-year-old Madelyn Bernard is still spending her days at...
Want retail in your suburban village? It takes an incentive
Retail might follow rooftops, but it also follows tax incentives for developers. Livingston Parish has both.
The parish is home to Bass Pro Shops Outdoor...
Apprentice program is boosting Baton Rouge tech workforce
When Apprenti Louisiana graduates talk about their experience participating in the state’s first technology apprenticeship program, a common sentiment emerges.
The program, they say, is...
