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Bayer Trumpets $400 Million Herbicide Plant
Hours after local officials approved a $32 million tax abatement program for it, Bayer CropScience announced plans in mid-May to build a $400 million...
Ready to Reap Internet Tax Benefits?
As the U.S. Senate has passed a bill that would add sales tax on Internet sales, Alabama officials are scurrying to make sure the...
Lanett Plant Growing & Changing
Knauf Insulation has announced plans to reopen its Lanett plant. The firm closed the plant in 2011 and is now investing $20 million to...
Airbus
Long before Airbus began seeking a site for its entry in the U.S. marketplace, Allan McArtor had an eye on Mobile’s Brookley Field.
As administrator...
Scrushy Wants Back in Health Care Business
Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy — recently released from jail on bribery and fraud charges that also sent former Gov. Don Siegelman to jail...
New Laws
May 20 the Alabama Legislature concluded a busy, sometimes bitterly controversial 105-day session that voted taxpayer money to support private schools, gave K-12 teachers...
Ranks & Ratings
1 — Three Alabama companies have been named winners in Alabama’s Manufacturer of the Year awards. Automaker Mercedes-Benz took the honors for a large...
Georgia-Pacific Plans Restarts on Housing Futures
Saying it sees “emerging signs in the housing market that are whetting the appetite for more building products, ” Georgia-Pacific has announced plans to...
American Family Buys into #2 Doc-in-Box Slot
American Family Care, a Birmingham-based operator of urgent care centers, has acquired Doctors Express, the largest franchisor of such centers in the country. With...
President Obama suggests privatizing TVA
Saying that the Tennessee Valley Authority is likely to exceed it’s borrowing cap and that it has met its original objectives, President Barack Obama...
