A mixed bag
2009 was a year in which some businesses saw revenues increase, some businesses held steady and other businesses held on.
What’s on the menu?
Capital Region consumers are trading down during the recession, choosing less-expensive products at grocery stores and dining at fast-food restaurants.
Insuring their future
Family-owned life insurance companies had one of their best years to date in 2009, but there is uncertainty over what will happen down the road.
Leap of faith
MMO capitalized on reduced Medicare reimbursement rates to mental health care providers, buying competitors and their facilities to become one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S.
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Top Lafayette private companies
Top Lake Charles private companies
Top 10 New Orleans private companies
Top 25 Louisiana public companies
HERE’S HOW WE FARED
We ask for your numbers. So here are ours. Louisiana Business Inc., which publishes Business Report, 10/12 magazine, 225 magazine, inRegister, the online Daily Report AM, Daily Report PM and Real Estate Weekly as well as a variety of other online and contract publications, saw revenue rise 7.5% in 2009 to $8,117,803 from $7,553,859 in 2008. The company has 61 full-time employees, all working in Baton Rouge at the corporate headquarters on Jefferson Highway near Drusilla Lane and Interstate 12.
Chairman/Publisher Rolfe McCollister Jr. founded the company in 1982. President/Associate Publisher Julio Melara is a partner in the company.
HOW THE LIST COMES TOGETHER
In the spring, Business Report sent out letters and e-mails to all companies from recent lists, 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 by fax or mail.
We followed up with faxes, phone calls and research to confirm the data. In some cases, we looked at related industry performance and other business compilations to estimate revenues.
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 revenues for the most recently completed fiscal year, which in most cases was the calendar year 2009.
