Cary Estes
UAB and Southern Research: Partnership to Speed Ideas to Applications
Frequent collaborators UAB and Southern Research are teaming up once again, this time with a partnership that will attempt to tap into the lucrative...
Economic Development in Big Business: Growing Up with the Job
In many ways, economic development work is all about the numbers — tax rates, property prices, wage averages, financial incentives. At some point in...
The Locker Room: Retail Legend on the Strip
Alex Gatewood looked a lot like a typical University of Alabama student when he drove into Tuscaloosa in 1964 pulling a U-Haul and seeking...
Biofuel: The Farmer’s Alchemist To Stop Waste of Biomass
There’s oil in them there … corn cobs?
A Tuscaloosa-based company certainly thinks so. Inventure Renewables has created a process to take basic waste biomass,...
Talladega Updates to Stadium Tailored to a Fast Changing Market
After more than a decade of rapid growth, NASCAR is no longer living life in the fast lane. Since 2005, attendance has dropped approximately...
Life’s Time Capsule App (LTC App): Family Archive App
A group in Alabama is giving the old photo album and scrapbook a digital makeover with the creation of Life’s Time Capsule, a mobile...
HERObike: Elegantly Designed Bicycle Business To Redesign Bikes
It is a sight rarely seen anywhere, and certainly not in a small, rural town like Greensboro — a dozen or so people, mostly...
Important Brands to Look After: Branding Relationships
Hibbett Sports
Brand Managed by Red Square
Hibbett Sports has been selling athletic shoes and other sports apparel and equipment since the end of World War...
John Hall’s Restaurants: Why I Cook at the P.O.
John Hall’s restaurant resume is filled with fine-dining experience. He worked in his hometown with renowned Birmingham chef Frank Stitt. He traveled to Luxembourg...
Mercedes C-Class Sedan: Mercedes Production Line Dance
They were literally dancing on the floor of the Mercedes-Benz assembly plant in Vance on June 18. With the infectious Pharrell Williams’ song “Happy”...