Dave Helms
Airbus Branding: How Airbus Rebranded to Improve Their Image
Branding is a focus of this month’s Business Alabama, and we need look no further than Airbus Group for a lesson in the science...
Walmart Management: A Graduate of the Walmart School of Hard Knocks
Walmart, the biggest employer in the United States with a workforce of nearly 2.2 million people, didn’t have to look far to fill management...
Manufacturing Low Grades on ‘Human Capital’: Alabama Lowest GRADE
Alabama’s manufacturing and logistics report card arrived in June, and — while we didn’t really ace any of the subjects — we at least...
Birmingham Chases World Games in Hopes of $256 Million from Tourism
Birmingham tourism officials are betting a $125, 000 application fee in hopes of scoring $256 million in tourism dollars should the city win a...
Space Fence Will Help Stop Space Debris From Ruining Staellites
As chronicled in the “Pigs In Space” benchmark of last month, six decades of space travel have now littered Earth’s upper atmosphere with spent...
Regions Interest Rate Swaps: Cost Company $10 Million
Following a weeklong trial in January, an arbitration panel ruled that Regions Bank would have to pay a Baldwin County sewer company nearly $10...
ServisFirst Goes Public: Time Ripe for Stepping Out
Life is full of trades and they’re all public now for ServisFirst Bancshares Inc., Alabama’s new contribution to the NASDAQ exchange. President and CEO...
Alabama Incubators Greatly Aid Economic Development
Business incubation is often described as an economic development best value. For every dollar of estimated annual public operating subsidy provided the incubator, according...
Comcast Usage Billing: Big Telecoms Big Billing Shadow
Ever-vigilant Internet conspiracy theorists were quick in May to tie the proposed Comcast merger with Time Warner Cable to an announcement that Comcast was...
Billionaires Spending: Put Some Rims on that A320
Billionaires tend to know exactly what they want but that doesn’t necessary help the people trying to sell to them. Airbus might have had...