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Business In Focus Magazine: Innovative Entrepreneurship in Central Louisiana
admin | 13th August, 2018
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Combine an entrepreneurial ethos, a skilled workforce with a bent toward lifelong learning, automation startups, Fortune 100 manufacturers, private businesses operating on an international scale, four colleges and an enlightened and connected regional leadership and you have the recipe for making good things happen. And good things are exactly what are happening in Central Louisiana ...
Bill would extend I-14 farther east, through Bryan-College Station
admin | 13th August, 2018
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Lawmakers from three states have co-sponsored a bill to expand the Interstate 14 corridor, which has long been envisioned to pass through Bryan-College Station. According to the Gulf Coast Strategic Highway Coalition, the group advocating for the interstate — eight Republican congressmen from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi — introduced a bill Monday to extend the ...
Project Blue unveiled: Vidalia Denim to prepare raw cotton for blue jean production
admin | 13th August, 2018
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Vidalia Denim was unveiled today as the entity behind the codename Project Blue that has now officially purchased from the Town of the Vidalia the vacant Fruit of the Loom facility. Vidalia Denim will purchase raw cotton, which it will then spin, dye and weave into the denim fabric. The company will ship the denim ...
Martco Announces $8 Million Upgrade To Chopin Wood Products Facility
admin | 13th August, 2018
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In Natchitoches Parish, RoyOMartin site will retain 680 jobs, create 14 new direct jobs CHOPIN, La. — Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards and RoyOMartin President and CEO Roy O. Martin III announced the company will invest $8 million at its Chopin plywood and solid wood plant to install a new dry kiln designed to increase ...
Cool Planet to begin construction on Alexandria plant
admin | 13th August, 2018
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Cool Planet will begin construction of its production facility in Alexandria immediately, the company announced Wednesday. The plant, located at the Central Louisiana Regional Port, will produce Cool Terra, Cool Planet’s signature product, which the company says increases yield and quality of a wide range of crops when mixed with soil. The facility, which will serve as ...
Business Micro-Lending Supports Small Enterprises in Central Louisiana
admin | 31st May, 2018
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Business Micro-Lending Supports Small Enterprises in Central Louisiana A partnership between the Central Louisiana Economic Development Alliance (CLEDA), and Communities Unlimited, Inc. (CU), serves local start-ups with expert technical assistance and access to small business micro-loans. ALEXANDRIA, LA, May 30, 2018 – In February of 2018 ...
ALEXANDRIA FARMERS MARKET TO ACCEPT SNAP BENEFITS
admin | 31st May, 2018
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ALEXANDRIA FARMERS MARKET TO ACCEPT SNAP Recipients can use benefit cards to buy fresh, local food Beginning June 5, the Alexandria Farmers Market will begin accepting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit cards to help make it easier for lower-income families to buy and eat fresh, local food. SNAP recipients can swipe their EBT cards at ...
LaSalle Parish lands $115 Million Plant
admin | 13th March, 2018
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Hunt Forest Products of Ruston and its Canadian partner Tolko Industries will build a $115 million sawmill in LaSalle Parish in the heart of Louisiana timber country. The project will eventually create more than 100 direct permanent jobs. “We are excited to be bringing a high-tech sawmill, and the skilled jobs it will provide, to ...
admin | 01st March, 2018
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Hunt Forest Products Announces $115 Million Mill In Central Louisiana State-of-the-art lumber mill will create 110 direct jobs and result in over 300 new indirect jobs URANIA, La. — Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards and Hunt Forest Products co-owner James D. Hunt announced the company will build a state-of-the-art $115 million lumber mill in Urania, ...
Meet our Quarterly Luncheon Speaker
admin | 26th January, 2018
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JEANNETTE GOLDSMITH VICE PRESIDENT Site Selectors Guild Member Jeannette Goldsmith is Vice President of Strategic Development Group, where she specializes in site selection and incentive negotiations for clients worldwide. Jeannette’s background spans more than 20 years in site location consulting, incentive negotiations, and economic development consulting with McCallum Sweeney and then with her own company, ...