TOP 100-Did You Know?/Did You Know?

Fun facts from this year’s Top 100 private companies

THE TOP 100 BUYER’S CLUB

[ PHOTO: Treehouse.jpg and Todd Graves.jpg ]

Raising Cane’s (No. 8) CEO Todd Graves commissioned a three-story, 1,200-square-foot treehouse designed by Animal Planet Treehouse Masters star Pete Nelson. The exterior is cypress; the interior, pine. Among the features: sunset deck, fireplace-grill, fully functioning indoor kitchen and stained glass salvaged from a New Orleans church. The construction price has been reported at more than $200,000.

[ PHOTO: The Wharf.jpg and Art Favre.jpg ]

Performance Contractors (No. 3) President Art Favre, who owns The Wharf, a 222-acre entertainment, retail and marina complex at Orange Beach, is now building a SpringHill Suites by Marriott in the development. The hotel is expected to be a five-story hotel on the Intracoastal Waterway, next to the Orange Beach Event Center off of Canal Road. It would be built where the Bimini Bob’s restaurant is currently located.

MOVING AND EXPANDING

[ ILLUSTRATION: 18661792 ]

83,000

Square footage of Lipsey’s (No. 19) new distribution facility on Exchequer Drive. It opened in the fall of 2014.

113,000

Square footage of Setpoint Integrated Solutions’ (No. 27) new U.S. operations headquarters on Highland Road, which includes a $400,000 interactive industrial process showroom.

[ ILLUSTRATION: iStock 20869752 ]

50,000

Square footage of an expansion Capitol City Produce (No. 62) plans to more than double its offices and warehouse space on Commercial Avenue. Groundbreaking is planned for August.

[ ILLUSTRATION: iSTOCK 40741788 ]

$145 million

Amount of tax-exempt bonds approved by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority to finance design and construction of multistory dormitories at Rowan University in a public-private partnership between the university, University Student Living LLC and Provident Resources Group (No. 50).

[ ILLUSTRATION: iSTOCK 6865857 ]

$500,000

Estimated amount of damages to Robinson Brothers Ford Lincoln (No. 47) after a March electrical fire.

[ PHOTO: Watermark.jpg ]

148

Number of rooms planned for the Watermark Baton Rouge, a Marriott Autograph hotel being developed in the LNB Building at 150 North Third St. by Wampold Companies (No. 65).

[ ILLUSTRATION: iSTOCK 45417630 ]

25%

Share of companies on the Top 100 private companies on the list that are industrial in nature.

[ ILLUSTRATION: iSTOCK 37940156 ]

13

Number of automobile dealerships on the list.

[ ILLUSTRATION: iSTOCK 37445950 ]

SLOWING GROWTH

Top 100 private companies combined revenue growth in 2013: +13.7%

Top 100 private companies combined revenue growth in 2014: $9.52%

[ ILLUSTRATION: iStock 14761397 ]

NO. 1

DEMCO (No. 26) is the largest electric cooperative in Louisiana, with more than 100,000 members in seven parishes.

[ ILLUSTRATION: iSTOCK 7276450 ]

ON SCREEN

$59.9 million

Amount expected to be spent on television series being produced this year at Celtic Studios, part of The Celtic Group (No. 40). They include Underground, Scream (aka Hush), Hap and Leonard and Parallax.

[ ILLUSTRATION: iSTOCK 57261646 ]

14

Number of wholesale and retail food and beverage companies on the Top 100 list