Dream Motor Group
Revenue: $272,500,000 | Rank: No. 20
Mercedes-Benz of Baton Rouge now has a parent company: Dream Motor Group. The automotive dealership group’s holdings include Mercedes-Benz of Birmingham and Infiniti of Birmingham—both of which are owned by a partnership that includes University of Alabama Coach Nick Saban and Dream Motor Group CEO Joe Agresti—as well as SMART of Birmingham and Mercedes-Benz of The Woodlands in Texas. Dream Motor Group carries Mercedes-Benz, Infiniti, Sprinter, and SMART brands.
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Classic Industrial Services Inc.
Revenue: $55,000,000 | Rank: No. 79
In the midst of an industrial construction boom, Classic Industrial Services has a heavy workload that has taken it to Florida, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Nebraska, Arizona and North Carolina, just to name a few of its worksites. Industrial thermal insulation. Industrial siding. Industrial scaffolding. And industrial refractory services. Those are just a few of the key services the subsidiary of API Group provides to industrial facilities that are rising or expanding.
Roofing Solutions
Revenue: $35,103,422 | Rank: No. 94
Roofing Solutions has put the top on many a Louisiana public and commercial building: the Baton Rouge River Center, Bluebonnet Library, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge Zoo, the Field House Condominiums and more. Its architectural panels can be spotted on the Safety Council, the LSU Student Union, the Zachary High School Auditorium and the Mid City Gardens Activity Center. The Prairieville company founded in 2004 by Tupac De la Cruz in the past two years has opened offices in New Orleans; Jackson, Mississippi; and San Jose, Costa Rica.
Oxford Alloys
Revenue: $33,000,000 | Rank: No. 97 (tie)
This company founded in 1970 by Owen Ashworth has done some major global expansion in the past few years. It opened a location in Singapore to serve its southeast Asian clientele in 2012, and last month opened a new 10,417-square-foot warehouse in Cheshire, England. The company, which provides corrosive resistant welding consumables used primarily in the oil and gas industry, also launched a new economical line of products called Sheffield Welding to compete with other welding suppliers internationally. Oxford Alloys CEO Mark Ashworth named it after the street he lived on in the Old Goodwood neighborhood of Baton Rouge.
Rotolo’s Pizzeria
Revenue: $33,000,000 | No. 97 (tie)
Expansion is the name of the game at Rotolo’s. Since Mitch Rotolo founded the first location in 1996 near the LSU campus, the franchise has grown to 30 locations in Louisiana, three each in Alabama and Texas, and one in Florida. In 2013, Rotolo’s doubled the size of its food manufacturing facility and warehouse in St. Gabrielle to about 11,000 square feet, and created a new company called Angelica Foods Manufacturing. The casual Italian eatery serves up a variety of appetizers, wings, pasta, wraps and sandwiches, salads, and, of course, pizzas and calzones.
