Martin Marietta's Mad Men Blitz Kiboshed
In the spring of 2010, Vulcan Materials Inc. CEO Don James was seriously studying the next big deal—a merger by the Birmingham-based...
Top Dollar Jury Awards
1. Mannsfeld v. Ineos Americas LLC, et al Most people—on a good day—might be lucky to get a penny for their...
Roy Moore's Second Coming
A look back at the “Business & Politics” column in the July 2000 issue of Business Alabama is an exercise in eternal recurrence....
$2 Billion Chump Change
News in May that J.P. Morgan dropped more than $2 billion in a derivatives trade made headlines, stirred Congressional committee hearings—Harrumph! Harrumph!—and...
The Value of a Company Plane
On July 9, 2007 then-Sen. Barack Obama stepped off a Gulfstream jet onto the runway tarmac to kick off the Alabama portion...
Watching the Skies
His career-military father always hoped Bob Baron would become a doctor. But instead of attending medical school, Baron’s career journey led him...
Number Crunchers to the Rescue
Most every Alabama business has a relationship with an accounting firm — to balance the books, prepare taxes, draw up the...
Taxes and the Poor Mouth
“We are a poor state.” That’s the excuse often offered to explain why Alabama is at rock bottom among the 50 states,...
Meat & Potatoes Meetings
They are not anywhere near the top of the U.S. conventions market, but Alabama’s three largest convention cities each year say they...
The Water Way
For more than 60 years, Alabama’s Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway has quietly kept commerce churning from Birmingham to the Port of Mobile, connecting...
