Baton Rouge Business Report

Striking members of the International Longshoremen’s Association returned to work Friday after the union reached a tentative deal with the United States Maritime Alliance. Even so, the threat of a prolonged dockworkers strike still looms....

Third-quarter U.S. vehicle sales fell 1.9% year over year, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week, as high prices on new vehicles and borrowing costs have kept shoppers on the sidelines. That trend has...

Shell Chemical, in Ascension Parish, brought home the 2024 Lantern Award for manufacturing excellence from Louisiana Economic Development.  Shell was one of eight companies recognized at the Capitol Park Museum on Thursday for demonstrating business...

Get the exclusive 2024-2025 economic forecast for the state of Louisiana, from Dr. Loren Scott in conjunction with Baton Rouge Business Report‘s annual Louisiana Business Symposium. Read it here.

Nexus Louisiana is working toward selecting a new president and CEO in January.  At its first meeting since July, the organization’s board of directors―facing key vacancies in its leadership―on Wednesday addressed its longstanding search for...

Raising Cane’s founder Todd Graves makes his debut this year on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans. Among the three ranking Louisianans, the 52-year-old restaurateur went straight to the top, coming in at...