From the Publisher Do business better: Use the Book of Lists

FROM the PUBLISHER

COVER PHOTOS BY TIM MUELLER

Do business better: Use the Book of Lists

YOU’RE HOLDING one of the most valuable resources in helping local businesses compete. This isn’t a phone or membership directory. It’s a tool. And take it from someone who has used this tool over the past few decades, there are plenty of ways this book can help you not only do business better but also give you an edge over the competition.

Whether you are a new business or one that is more than 40 years old, this publication is an important resource for you to stay up to date on who’s new, who’s growing and who has changed in the industries important to you.

The Book of Lists provides details on the largest firms and organizations in the region in more than 40 categories. It comprises the various lists we publish in Business Report throughout the year as well as numerous lists that only appear here. Many of the lists have been updated since their original publication, offering the most current information available.

You’ll also find a record of the 2022 winners of our Business Awards & Hall of Fame, Influential Women in Business, Best Places to Work in Baton Rouge and the 25th class of Forty Under 40, all of whom are making a positive impact on our community.

The lists were researched and prepared by our research director, Alaine Keisling. We strive to maintain accuracy and rely heavily on the cooperation of contributing businesses to provide us with the most reliable information available. Please email any updates or corrections of your information to research@businessreport.com. You can continue to do so throughout the year.

While size isn’t a criterion for success, publishing these lists in limited space requires defining, for instance, what constitutes a Top 25 or Top 100 company. Our team has established what we believe to be the most important criteria for inclusion on each list. This is not meant as a slight to any individual or company. We realize every business—large and small—makes a valuable contribution to our community and economy.

I would like to give a special thanks to our sponsors for the 2022 Book of Lists: the East Baton Rouge Parish Library and Maurice Velasquez.

Above all, we hope you will utilize this valuable resource in your business. We believe it will help you know and understand the marketplace!

Julio Melara CEO/Publisher

BOOK of LISTS

4 From the Publisher: Do business better: Use the Book of Lists 11 2022: 10 stories to remember 14 2022 Influential Women in Business 16 2022 Baton Rouge Business Awards & Hall of Fame 17 2022 Best Places to Work in Baton Rouge 18 2022 Forty Under 40

Services and Technology

Sponsored by:

19 Retirement and assisted-living communities 20 Physician groups 23 Hospitals 25 Specialty hospitals 26 After-hours and urgent care clinics 28 Outpatient physical therapy providers 30 Woman-owned businesses 33 Law firms 34 Advertising, marketing and PR firms 37 Office equipment and supply dealers 38 Telecommunication companies 41 Technology consultants and IT service firms 42 Convention and meeting facilities 44 Staffing and employment agencies 46 Business incubators 47 Louisiana MBA programs 48 Automobile dealers 50 Hotels

Finance and Insurance

Sponsored by:

51 Mortgage companies 53 Banks 56 Credit unions 59 Louisiana SBA lenders 61 Accounting firms 62 Financial investment firms 64 Property and casualty insurance 66 Employee benefits consulting

Industry

Sponsored by:

67 Heavy equipment dealers 69 Engineering firms 70 Industrial construction firms 73 Top 10 industrial projects underway 76 Industrial transportation and logistics companies 78 Environmental consulting firms

Real Estate

Sponsored by :

79 Real estate title companies 81 Commercial contractors 84 Commercial real estate firms 87 Property management firms 89 Class A office space directory 94 Architecture firms 97 Homebuilders 100 Baton Rouge’s 5 most expensive home sales of 2021 102 Residential real estate firms

Top Companies

Sponsored by:

103 Nonprofit organizations 105 Top 100 Private Companies (1-25) 106 Top 100 Private Companies (26-50) 109 Top 100 Private Companies (51-75) 110 Top 100 Private Companies (76-100)

Publisher: Julio Melara

EDITORIAL

Editorial Director: Penny Font Associate Publisher, Executive Editor: JR Ball Assistant editor: Allan Schilling Online News Editor: Deanna B. Narveson Staff writer: David Jacobs, Eric L. Taylor Digital content editor: Dillon Lowe Contributing writers: Sam Barnes, Tom Cook,

Emily Kern Hebert, Maggie Heyn Richardson Contributing photographers: Don Kadair, Tim Mueller, Collin Richie

ADVERTISING

Sales Director: Kelly Lewis Senior Account Executive: Marielle Land-Howard Account Executives: Meredith LaBorde, Angie Laporte,

Gabi Bivins Porter, Kristen Voitier, Matt Wambles Advertising Coordinators: Devyn MacDonald, Brittany Nieto,

Cassidie Tingle

STUDIO E

Director: Taylor Gast Multimedia Strategy Manager: Timothy Coles Corporate Media Editor: Lisa Tramontana Account Executive: Judith LaDousa

MARKETING

Marketing & Events Coordinator: Taylor Falgout Training & Events Coordinator: Emma Dubuc Events: Abby Hamilton

ADMINISTRATION

Business Manager: Tiffany Durocher Business Associate: Kirsten Milano Office Coordinator: Sara Hodge Receptionist: Cathy Varnado Brown

PRODUCTION/DESIGN

Production Manager: Jo Glenny Art Director: Hoa Vu Senior Graphic Designer: Melinda Galjour Graphic Designers: Emily Witt, Ashlee Digel

AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT

Audience Development Director and Digital Manager: James Hume Audience Development Coordinator: Ivana Oubre Audience Development Associate: Catherine Albano

A publication of Melara Enterprises, LLC

Chairman: Julio Melara Executive Assistant: Brooke Motto Vice President-Sales: Elizabeth McCollister Hebert Chief Content Officer: Penny Font Chief Digital Officer: Erin Pou Chief Operating Officer: Guy Barone Chairman Emeritus: Rolfe H. McCollister Jr.

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YOU SEARCH – WE FIND! The East Baton Rouge Parish Library is committed to strengthening business, promoting workforce development and supporting entrepreneurship throughout the parish. We continue to enhance our technology services, databases and online resources to meet your needs.

We regularly expand the depth and breadth of the premium business resources offered freely via our website, ebrpl.com/DigitalLibrary. Access is instant with your library card. We’re conveniently open seven days a week at our 14 libraries, too. The Digital Library provides access to thousands of free employment training courses, educational assistance programs and business-related databases, as well as free online movies, eBooks, magazines, music, foreign language lessons, hobby courses, news, archives and more.

The Library’s SMALL BUSINESS SERVICE for local business owners and entrepreneurs includes free programs, resources and tools to help your business grow, and offers free one-on-one consultations with our business librarians. Business librarians can even provide you with concierge service to design a curated collection of continuing ed courses for you and your staff. Business librarians can also guide you in the use of Gale Business: Entrepreneurship and Gale Business: Plan Builder, a step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit. Contact them at smallbusiness@ebrpl.com.

The new Skill Mill Augmented/Virtual Reality training platform is also online, providing hands-on training simulations. This is just one of a number of business tools and skills development resources available FREE through EBRPL’s Digital Library, including LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, Mergent Intellect, ReferenceUSA (now Data Axle Reference Solutions), Nexis Uni, Small Business Reference Center and Sage Business Researcher. To view all library business resources, visit ebrpl.com/Business.

The Library continues to upgrade its physical infrastructure, with construction imminent for the new South Branch Library in Rouzan and the renovated and expanded Scotlandville Branch. Each location is modern, high-tech and energy efficient, and will serve as a center for robust community and government activities and meetings, planning, learning and discovery. These construction projects are fully funded on the pay-as-you-go plan with no bonds or indebtedness, thanks to public support for the Library’s 10-year dedicated property tax.

The support you give YOUR LIBRARY makes it possible for us to continue to renovate our older branches, build new facilities, broaden our services and selections, offer more meeting and study spaces, and provide additional high-tech computers and software, free Wi-Fi and much more.

Spencer Watts

Library Director East Baton Rouge Parish Library

WHEN A LEADERSHIP TEAM is collaborative, everyone in the organization becomes more productive. For the past 20 years, we have trained companies and their leadership teams how to become more cohesive, and to operate as a more unified team. But when we talk about training leaders, we don’t just mean the executives. We start with the executives and middle managers, and then train the frontline supervisors. And the outcome of the training is those managers and supervisors are able to work better together across department lines. They attract and recruit better talent, and they create higher employee engagement. Their frontline teams become more productive, more efficient, and the great employees stay in the company longer.

It’s an exciting program we have developed, and it works! We offer our program in live public workshops, in remote zoom sessions, in our video library, but we mostly teach it in private training at our client’s site, and we tailor it for their specific needs and challenges. That’s where our clients get the biggest advantage of the program because we provide reinforcement coaching after the training. That weekly coaching helps the managers and supervisors practice and implement the skills and habits they have learned in the training and master them over a long period of time.

The biggest feedback we get from our clients is that our program is practical and applicable. They find we do not just speak in terms of theories and concepts. We roll up our sleeves and provide an effective set of tools, forms, and tactics that we have designed, tested, and proven across multiple industries and different size companies. They find that the tools and habits we teach them are what makes the difference.

Our program focuses in these 5 key areas: • Executive and leadership team alignment • Management and supervisor excellence • Recruiting and effective onboarding • Collaboration and communications • Managing different personalities and generations

We believe that the greatest thing that managers and supervisors can do is help their frontliners teams become high performing. That’s what frontliners want: to be high performing individuals with great supervisors and managers supporting them and empowering them. But this doesn’t just happen. It’s intentional, and our program makes it extremely possible.

We invite you to start this journey with us by downloading our 2 free e-guides How to Build High Performing Teams and Journeying Beyond the Storm which you can find on our website at mauricetraining.com/books. And also join us for our weekly podcast for insights and tactics of great leadership and management. Go to mauricetraining.com.

Maurice Velasquez

CEO & President Maurice Velasquez Leadership & Management