Alfa Insurance Loses Customers
Shortly after killer tornadoes ravaged Alabama in April 2011, Montgomery-based Alfa Insurance announced it would not renew more than 70, 000 property insurance policies...
Susan Wu Decides to Equip Herself
With the vision of Japanese soldiers occupying her native China in the early days of World War II, a young Susan Wu resolved to...
Lawyers in the Board Room
At a company meeting several years back, the CEO of Reebok ranted about his aversion to lawyers, then turned to his general counsel and...
The Looming Correction Blues
With bonds and cash barely showing a pulse when it comes to interest rates, investors may be timidly strolling back down Wall Street, trying...
Spotlight on Etowah & St. Clair Counties
Etowah County is located in northeast Alabama. It is blessed with natural beauty, including Noccalula Falls Park and Lookout Mountain, along with the Coosa...
High-Gain Hedge in Hospitals
Medical Properties Trust, a Real Estate Investment Trust based in Birmingham, is riding high, in spite of a languishing recession that’s been especially anguishing...
Haines and Other Authors’ Best Sellers
For Carolyn Haines, opportunity knocked at a Mississippi cocktail party. Attending the 1982 social, an Ole Miss professor told the future mega-author, “Carolyn, you...
Wally’s Bessemer Alchemy
Wally Evans, 66, knows a thing or two about running a family business. While growing up in Decatur, he spent many hours helping out...
Lee Aids Carnival Cruise Lines
Mike Lee remembers standing on the side of a Colorado ski slope when Carnival Cruise Lines called.
It wasn’t the first time they had come...
Cyber Security is an Important Emerging Area and a Tough Problem
Marc Bendickson is CEO of Dynetics, one of Alabama’s largest private companies — 1, 055 employees, sales of $267 million — and one of...
