Tag: Spotlight
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...
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....
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...
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...
Energen Corp.’s Third Act Gushes
When James McManus took over as the CEO of Energen Corp. in 2007, the company was on the brink of a transformation.
Up until the...
Spotlight on Limestone, Morgan and Lawrence Counties
Limestone, Morgan and Lawrence counties in north Alabama are blessed with an abundance of natural resources and beauty, major interstate and rail that attract...
Food Banks and More for Alabama’s Needy
Alabama’s needy are a changing demographic.
They are housewives tossed from homes, children depending on school lunches or seniors living with fixed incomes that aren’t...
Real Estate Summit
Improvements in the commercial real estate picture within the past year have inspired the theme of “Engage!” for ACREcon, Alabama’s statewide commercial real estate...
Launch Funding for Innovative Companies
Alabama sees the value in funding innovative and creative companies. The development of these companies, as well as enticing them to stay in the...