Restaurant on the Rise
Chicken and Southern business empires seem practically synonymous. In the 1930s, Colonel Sanders began selling fried chicken from a roadside restaurant in Corbin, Ky....
Seven at the Top
Jean Marie Thrower
President/CEO, Supplier Development Systems LLC, Birmingham
Start up blue-collar Kentucky, rebuild your own brakes. Jean Marie Thrower started working at age 16, saving enough money...
Beer and Alabama Breweries
The United States’ love of beer is older than the country itself. Among the passengers on the Mayflower during its 17th-century voyage to the...
‘Muscle Shoals’ Documentary Spurs Enterprise, Travel
The 2013 documentary “Muscle Shoals” that celebrated FAME Studios founder Rick Hall, developer of a signature sound heard in “I’ll Take You There” and...
777x Dreams Grounded
A Jan. 3 vote by Boeing’s machinists union to accept the company’s long-term contract offer will keep final assembly of the new 777X plane...
Vulcan Inc.: Employee-Owned Aluminum Company Expands $18.5 Million
Vulcan Inc. has completed an $18.5 million expansion of its aluminum mill in Foley to meet growing demand in the aluminum industry. Vulcan added...
The Modern Apprentice
A number of manufacturing apprenticeship programs have sprung up across the state in recent years in response to increased demand for workers with critical...
Riding Herd on the Senate
Breaking up a fight was not in the job description, but Secretary of the Senate Patrick Harris takes seriously his role as the enforcer...
Stores on Wheels
Mobile’s Carts Blanche LLC markets and sells vending machines, sort of, but not quite. Because referring to Carts Blanche’s ‘VendaCarts’ as just a vending...
Workforce Development
Terry Waters took over as the new head of workforce development for the state in November.
The Governor’s Office of Workforce Development comes under the...
