Serial Local Bank Builder
ServisFirst Bank President and CEO Tom Broughton seems nonchalant as he fields questions about goals and strategic planning. “We’ve never had goals … but...
Dream Fielder
Brian Skinner is the deliverer of dreams. He can take people around the globe and transport them to other worlds. He can make people...
Branch Banks
Are branch banks becoming an endangered species? Soon to rest in peace with downtown movie theaters, record shops, video rental stores and gas stations...
Refreshment Reformation
Located in Birmingham, Coca-Cola Bottling Company United is the third largest Coca-Cola bottler in North America and the largest privately held Coca-Cola bottler. United...
Ford’s Million Dollar Shine
Out of his teens, out of college and out of work, Russ Ford found employment polishing other people’s shoes. He offered great service —...
Agriculture Farm Financing
Yesterday’s dirt-under-his-fingernails yeoman farmer who tilled the soil with a horse-drawn plow would be astounded by today’s mechanized and diversified farm. Advances during the...
Give Us Your Earnest, Your Devout, Your High Achievers
Alabama may not have the draw of a Las Vegas or an Orlando, but conventions and other types of association meetings are big business...
Cotton Fields of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
That Old South anthem “Dixie, ” maundering for the “land of cotton, ” may well have been picturing Alabama, but certainly not the Alabama...
Can Fun Hedge a Tree Fund?
Not too long ago, timberland investing meant buying raw land, holding it, and selling for profit. Buyers watched their trees and bank accounts grow...
Schools and the Alabama Education Association
Henry Mabry is head of the Alabama Education Association. Historically one of the strongest special interest groups in Alabama politics, the AEA suffered one...