Gov. John Bel Edwards and Lotte Chemical USA announced Thursday its headquarters will …
March 28, 2017
Top 5 Advantages of Contacting Entergy Early in the Site Selection Process
Sam Richardson, Manager, Business Development
When relocating, or expanding your business, calling the utility company is probably not your first priority. Often that call is made in the final stages of site selection to check rates, or schedule service to be connected. However, there are a lot of not-so-obvious advantages to contacting us much earlier …
February 14, 2017
Museum of Discovery to Expand Girls in STEM Program
Lydia McAllister
Originally posted on Arkansas Business
The Museum of Discovery said last week that its Girls in STEM program will serve more girls in 2017 and expand to Jonesboro and Pine Bluff thanks to grants from Wal-Mart, Best Buy and the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas.
Grants and private donations totaling more than …
February 14, 2017
New Orleans area business leaders targeting advanced manufacturing opportunities
Richard Thompson, The New Orleans Advocate
Originally posted on The New Orleans Advocate
Regional business leaders are setting their sights in the year ahead on developing and growing local opportunities in advanced manufacturing, an industry that could employ skilled and well-paid workers.
That was the takeaway Monday from Greater New Orleans Inc.’s annual meeting at the Hyatt Regency …
January 20, 2017
How Large Project Services Helps Maximize a Customer’s Competitive Advantage and Profits
Bryan Hebert, Senior Manager, Project & Technical Services
If you’ve ever been responsible for initiating and constructing a new or expanding industrial facility, you probably experienced one or more of these issues in working with your utility: slow response time, generic service solutions, costly infrastructure build-out and impersonal customer service.
This is what happens when estimating and planning teams …
December 16, 2016
Newport works to create ‘mega’ industrial site, hopes to develop separate intermodal site
Originally posted on Talk Business and Politics
Newport has a certified 100-acre industrial development park, but it’s not large enough to attract enough job providers to Jackson County.
To lure industries to the region, the commission hopes to get a 3,200-acre swath certified by the state in 2017, Newport Economic Development …
November 22, 2016
Entergy Approved to Build $869 Million Power Plant in St. Charles Parish
Originally Posted On The Times-Picayune
Entergy Louisiana has received approval to build a new $869 million power plant in St. Charles Parish, part of a broader effort to strengthen power generation and transmission in a region that has seen a boom in industrial growth. The plant is expected to start …
April 25, 2016
Community Leaders Meet with Entergy
Originally Posted on 4-traders
Entergy hosted a “Power Lunch” last week at Copiah-Lincoln’s Simpson County Center. The purpose was to bring business leaders in the community together to discuss ways the community can work with Entergy in the economic development arena as well as in developments within the Entergy company itself.
Entergy is working with communities …