HOW THE LIST COMES TOGETHER
In the spring, Business Report sent letters and emails to all companies on our recent Top 100 lists as well as to those identified as possible qualifiers and those suggested by readers. We also placed notices on our websites, asking companies to post their information or send it to us.
We followed up with emails, phone calls and research to confirm the data. In some cases we looked at related industry performance reports and other business compilations to estimate revenue.
Some companies declined to reveal their numbers, so we relied on public information and sources to make reasonable estimates.
Companies were ranked according to their reported or estimated revenue for the most recently completed fiscal year, which in most cases was the calendar year 2013.
We thank all the Top 100 companies participated in preparing this year’s list.
SHARING OUR OWN
We aren’t among the Top 100, although we’d like to be. But since we ask for your numbers, we will share ours. Louisiana Business Inc. publishes Business Report, 225 magazine, inRegister magazine, the e-newsletters Daily Report AM and Daily Report PM, as well as a variety of other online and contract publications. In 2014, LBI total revenue was $$9,917,831, compared to $9,190,192 in 2013. The company has 61 full-time employees, all working in Baton Rouge at the corporate headquarters on Jefferson Highway.
Chairman/Publisher Rolfe McCollister Jr. founded the company in 1982. President/Associate Publisher Julio Melara is a partner in the company.
THE MAKING OF THE 2015 TOP 100 PRIVATE COMPANIES ISSUE
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Companies researched for the Top 100 private companies list
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Cover prototypes created before selecting the final design for the Top 100 issue
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Flights writer Gabrielle Braud took in a 1970 Cessna 182 to report for the Top 100 issue
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Hours photographer Collin Richie (left/right) spent photographing a spinal surgery at The Spine Hospital of Louisiana for our Day in the Life of a Top 100 Private Company essay
