Tag: February 2014
Spotlight on Marion, Lamar and Fayette Counties
Marion, Fayette and Lamar counties —located in northwest Alabama — have a rich history and a strong spirit of economic and regional cooperation.
With a...
Location, Location, Location
Of all of Alabama’s business-luring incentive programs, one of its newest, the film incentive, is perhaps the most successful in terms of providing an...
Hornady on Talking Money and Hard Driving
Chris Hornady, president of Monroeville-based Hornady Transportation LLC, is one of those owners who says he thinks of his employees as family.
But it takes...
Construction Employment Goes the Wrong Way
Two Alabama metros saw sizable declines in construction employment between November 2012 and November 2013, according to an analysis of federal employment data from...
Museum of Alabama: Alabama History Grand Opening
If you were telling the story of Alabama from the dawn of the 1700s until now, what would you need to do it? For...
Full Moon BBQ Now Available in Three More Cities
Alabamians enjoy debating barbecue — specifically who serves the best — nearly as much as they enjoy eating it. Full Moon BBQ plans to...
Report: State’s Child Care Industry Packs $1 Billion Punch
A new statewide economic assessment report released in December found that the early care and education industry — an umbrella term for the state’s...
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...