Vaping and E-cigarettes Popularity: Vape ’em if you Got ’em
The vagaries of vaping in Alabama have brought quick profits to retailers, provided jobs in the state’s quietest backwaters and left everyone in the...
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...
Montgomery Metamorphosis: Downtown Montgomery Revival
Downtown Montgomery looks to be on the verge of a revival with forward-thinking brothers Golson and John Foshee helping foster historic Dexter Avenue redevelopment...
Remington Outdoor Co.: Directing Rapid Gun Growth
George Kollitides is chairman and CEO of Remington Outdoor Co. Inc., the world’s largest firearms and ammunition manufacturer and Alabama’s most recent big coup...
The Money-Printing Machine: Electronically Printing Money
Since 2008 the U.S. Federal Reserve has been printing money like nobody’s business, more than $4 trillion of it. It’s not actually printed, of...
The Incubator Business Startup at Auburn University
Start your own business and be your own boss. It’s what we paradoxically both desire and fear, with good reason. Forgoing a steady paycheck...
Auburn Research Park: High Tech Seeks High Yield
Just off South College Street — Auburn’s main drag — past the chain restaurants, retail outlets and hotels is Auburn Research Park, a cluster...
Equities: Five Wealth Managers Weigh the Market
Top wealth managers at Alabama banks recommend stocks for client portfolios because of stocks’ long-term growth potential. While equities are just one investment option...
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...
Save the Family Farm: How Small Farms Can Succeed
Booker T. Whatley, who died in 2005 at age 89 at his home off Court Street in Montgomery, kept a flourishing midtown garden until...