Bay Wood Products – A Big Piece of Wood Work
Making a wooden pallet is not a high-end craft. But building and running the biggest pallet, dunnage and custom crate business in Alabama and the Mississippi/Florida Gulf Coast is a feat that really stacks up.
Craig King – Pitching in Real Estate’s Big Show
Back when the other kids were opting for Little League baseball, 12-year-old Craig King picked a different path — choosing a Dale Carnegie course...
Obama Goes after Payday Loans
Give the man credit: President Barack Obama has come twice this year to Alabama, a state so deeply red that it’s hard to remember...
Braves Baseball – Home of the Braves Coming Along
Fans of the Atlanta Braves found little to cheer about this spring, as one player after another from the 2014 squad was traded away...
Lockheed – 7, 000 Per Year Missile Factory Ramps Up
A renewed partnership between Lockheed Martin and the state of Alabama should add 240 employees to the company’s Pike County Operations facility by 2020.
The...
APA Closes Doors – Alabama’s Mental Health Decline
This February, Alabama Psychiatric Services (APA) announced that it would permanently close its doors across the state, shutting 11 offices that served 28, 000 patients.
A...
Shelia Jackson Does It All – Troy’s Diva
Troy tourism is her career, but singing is in her heart.
Technology – Business Incubation Through Technology
Gone is the image of the university as an ivory tower, that metaphoric turret where professors and researchers labor in isolation far removed from...
Freetextbooks.com – Taming The High Price of Textbooks
Thirty-year-old Jonathan Robinson, founder of Birmingham-based Freetextbooks.com, has always liked looking for and finding ways to make money. But his entrepreneurial nature didn’t lead...
Intellectual Property – How to Protect and Mine Your IP
Intellectual property is a growing and increasingly important realm in the business world — but exactly what is intellectual property?
A short answer might be...