Best Companies to Work for in Alabama 2016
The Best Companies Group offers Alabama businesses a chance to evaluate how well they measure up as great employers — both in the eyes of their employees and in comparison to other companies across the state.
Best Large Employer: Edward Jones
Edward Jones is an investment and financial services company serving long-term investors with investment guidance and balancing portfolios. Based in St. Louis, Missouri,...
Best Small-Medium Employer: Welch Hornsby
Founded in 1988, Welch Hornsby is a fee-only investment advisory firm with offices in Montgomery, Birmingham and Charlotte, North Carolina. As...
Navy’s Shock Rating Standards Lead to Austal Revamp, Write-off
It was a Fourth of July bottle rocket from Australia that sizzled through the living rooms of about 4, 000 shipyard workers, not...
An Ownership Transition Option Rediscovered
Founded in 1982, Huntsville-based Gleason Research Associates Inc. has built a specialized niche as a defense contractor in missile systems and engineering services....
The Pollinator
“See those bumblebees on the sunflowers?” Dr. George Koulianos asks underneath a blue sky near the southernmost tip of Alabama. “This is what I...
American Manufacturers Battle Chinese Scofflaws
When Business Alabama visited with him two years ago, Milton Magnus III was hanging in there — up to his neck fighting illegal...
New Game Board for Overtime Pay
We spoke with Jenna Bedsole, a specialist in labor and employment law, to get her insights on recent federal policy changes that...
Lawrence County’s Fastest Son Gets His Own Home Stretch
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s plan at the Berlin 1936 Olympics was to showcase the Aryan people as the world’s dominant race. Jesse Owens, ...
Spotlight on Calhoun & Talladega Counties
Calhoun and Talladega counties, in northeast Alabama, are well known for attracting tourists by the thousands with their bountiful natural resources and NASCAR races,...