Ready: Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, the Mayor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (MOHSEP), and the Department of Information Services today announced the launch of a new, user-friendly Red Stick Ready website, www.redstickready.com. The new site replaces the former Red Stick Ready site.
LaPlaces to eat: Food delivery service app Waitr is now serving LaPlace, New Orleans City Business reports. The platform, founded in 2015 in Lake Charles, and was sold in May for $308 million to Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta, transforming the startup, according to a recent Business Report cover story. Since the purchase, Waitr has also launched grocery delivery services in Louisiana and Texas and opened in new markets. Waitr opened in the New Orleans market in 2016. Read the full story.
Given the boot: General Electric has replaced John Flannery, the CEO chosen just over a year ago to shake up the beleaguered industrial giant, The New York Times reports. The company said today that Flannery would be succeeded as both chief executive and chairman by H. Lawrence Culp Jr., the former chief of the Danaher Corporation, a conglomerate that makes a variety of scientific, medical and automotive products. G.E. also announced that it would fall short of profit forecasts for this year. Read the full story.
