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The Advocate – GONZALES — Business is good in Gonzales, the head of the Ascension Economic Development Corp. told the City Council on Monday. Over the last year, the nonprofit has visited 15 businesses, as well as the local hospital, to learn how things are going, and the feedback is positive, said Mike Eades, president… Read more »

The Advocate – Bengal, a Geismar-based industrial transportation company, has purchased a 6,100-square-foot office building in Prairieville that will serve as its new headquarters. Bengal paid $2.1 million for the former InfiniEdge Software building at 14320 InfiniEdge Way in a deal that closed earlier this month. InfiniEdge recently moved to a new location in PraIrieville. Bengal… Read more »

June 2, 2015 BR Business Report – After 25 years as chief financial officer of A+ Corporation, Sheila Harvey was prepared to take on a bigger role following the 2012 passing of her father, Donald Mayeaux, who founded the maker of analytical sample systems and components in 1989. “In a family business you wear many… Read more »

Posted May 26, 2015, – The Advocate – Ellyn Couvillion GEISMAR — Crawford Electric Supply, a subsidiary of the French company Sonepar, opened May 18 in its new home in Ascension Parish, a little over a year after the company became a casualty of the zoning battles on the former Gonzales City Council.  In February 2014,… Read more »

The Advocate – GONZALES — Ascension economic development officials have wrapped up months of largely closed-door planning efforts to turn a swath of agricultural fields on the parish’s west bank into a 17,000-acre heavy industry park. Under the long-range plan, the rural pocket of cane fields along the Mississippi River north of La. 1 and… Read more »

5.4.15 Up from No. 4 in the U.S. last year, Louisiana ranks among top seven nationally for economic development performance for sixth consecutive year BATON ROUGE, La. — Today, Site Selection rated Louisiana’s economic development efforts No. 2 in the nation in its ranking of Top Competitive States for 2014. In its evaluation of economic development performance… Read more »

Gonzales, Louisiana – Crown Crafts Infant Products, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Crown Crafts, Inc. (NASDAQ-CM: CRWS), announced today that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Petunia Pickle Bottom for luxury infant bedding, blankets, bibs and bath products. Petunia Pickle Bottom is a vibrant lifestyle brand known around the world for its… Read more »

The Advocate – Summit Electric Supply has begun construction on a facility at 3348 S. Burnside in Gonzales. The facility will include 50,000 square feet of warehouse space — nearly twice the capacity of Summit’s current Gonzales location on West Orice Roth Road. The move also allows Summit to expand its counter sales area, offer… Read more »

BATON ROUGE, La., March 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Entergy Louisiana, LLC has signed a five-year agreement to provide an additional 60 megawatts of electricity to power CF Industries’ expanding nitrogen facility in Donaldsonville, one of many projects that are part of the industrial renaissance underway in Louisiana. CF Industries is on track to complete by early… Read more »

The Advocate – Renewable Energy Group, the owner of a Geismar biodiesel refinery, reported its fourth-quarter profit rose to $69.4 million, or $1.61 cents per share, up from $30.1 million, or 80 cents per share, a year ago. Renewable said its results were affected due to the full year net effect from the 2014 federal… Read more »