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IS ONSHORING THE NEW TREND? » Local manufacturers finding a more level playing field

BY WALLY NORTHWAY I STAFF WRITER wally.northway@msbusiness.com

Around town {P 4} » New owners plan cautious change for Highland Village Lists » Economic Development Projects {P15} » LEED Certified Facilities {P19} » Waste/Recycling Centers {P20-22}

Inside Biz {P 5} » Olive oil company on the Gulf Coast has taken off

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Mississippi’s manufacturing industry got some good news lately when it was announced Mississippi State University and partners had received a nearly $2-million federal grant aimed at, among other things, reshoring jobs lost to foreign countries and increasing the number of advanced manufacturing positions.

But optimism was already growing that Mississippi can not only recoup offshored jobs, but also reverse the playing field by landing more foreign investment, says Jay Moon, CEcD, FM, president and CEO of the Mississippi Manufacturers Association.

“The U.S. is still the number one market in the world,” Moon says. “We are seeing a lot of activity (in reshoring).

We are also seeing more and more foreign countries looking at Mississippi and the Southeast (to site plants).”

Moon points to numerous factors that are steering reshoring and increased foreign investment: • Rising foreign wage rates • Increasing transportation costs and logistical issues • Decreasing domestic energy costs • Concerns about quality control in foreign markets, particularly high-profile issues in China See ONSHORING, Page 10

2 I Mississippi Business Journal I November 29, 2013 CREATIVE ECONOMY

From chaos to control » Hardwick opening new TurnUp Studios in Midtown Jackson

BY WALLY NORTHWAY I STAFF WRITER wally.northway@msbusiness.com

Special to The MBJ

Clay Hardwick has been crafting his art for years, but now with the opening of TurnUp Studios in Midtown Jackson, he will have more freedom and time to create as well as market his eclectic work.

On a rainy morning in Midtown Jackson, artist Clay Hardwick nursed a cup of coffee and surveyed the space that he is converting into the new TurnUp Studios.

The ongoing work mirrors his basic creative philosophy — moving from chaos to control.

“The place was full of old, stored items when I first got here,” said Hardwick, 27, as he put his coffee cup down next to half-empty bottle of Pepto Bismol. “I still have a lot of work left to do before we officially open.”

A lot of work, perhaps, but Hardwick is living the dream of expanding his career while for the first time enjoying the freedom of concentrating almost exclusively on his art.

Hardwick became fascinated with fine arts as a child. He was particularly interested in abstract art, influenced heavily

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by the work and philosophy of artist Wassily Kandinsky.

Photography also consumed him. Hardwick got his first digital camera at age 12, finding a love for images and photographic manipulation. That evolved into video and filmmaking, and his course was set.

After graduating from high school, Hardwick ventured out of state to a fine arts college, but soon realized that he was more interested in liberal arts.

“I wanted to study language, philosophy,” he said.

So, he transferred to Millsaps College where he graduated in 2009 in studio art, and he was one of the first Millsaps students to concentrate in digital art.

Hardwick spent the next years bouncing between freelancing (graphic design, web site design) and employment, including with Mississippi Public Broadcasting.

However, he landed a freelancing job with a large national retail chain, and the money he earned allowed him to quit his “day job” in December and start shopping for a venue for TurnUp Studios.

In June, Hardwick found his place, a 2,200-square-foot facility at 155 Wesley Avenue in Midtown Jackson.

“This is actually a much nicer space than I hoped to get,” Hardwick said. “The other spaces were mainly old warehouses.”

He feels the area is the perfect place for TurnUp Studios. Midtown was designated an arts district back in the 1980s, a designation that, ironically, his father, Phil Hardwick, played a role in landing. The area thrived as a place for artists for years before declining. But it is seeing a renaissance — other new artist-tenants have moved in next door to TurnUp Studios

since Hardwick’s arrival.

The new business will officially open this weekend during the Midtown Holiday Studio Tours, but TurnUp Studios is already working. The day of the interview for this story Hardwick was preparing for a music video session for a local band. The videos are called “TurnUp Sessions,” highlighting local, up-and-coming musical acts, and Hardwick said he hopes to land sponsorships for the sessions and grow that business.

Music is a large part of TurnUp Studios as Hardwick sublets space to local musician Jamie Weems. He also is subletting space to visual artist daniel johnson.

“I love having them here,” Hardwick said. “daniel and I critique each other’s work, and I can just sit and listen to Jamie and the musicians for hours. It would be kind of sterile here with out them.”

While Hardwick is freer now to concentrate on his art, there is still the business side of things. He admits that it is a tough balancing act between being financially sound and being what he called a “sold-out artist.”

He credits his father with helping him on the business-side while adding his mother, Carol Hardwick, who recently retired as executive director of the Mississippi Economic Development Council, was where his love for art originated.

His future goals are more centered toward TurnUp Studios than his career.

“I just hope that when or if I leave here, it will continue on without me,” Hardwick said. “I see it as an incubator.”

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As lease renewal time arrived, secondgeneration Highland Village retailers Ken and Tracy Szilasi weighed the tremendous potential of Ridgeland's Renaissance at Colony Park and Madison's thriving retail centers.

The Maison Weiss owners ultimately decided their best play was to stay put and continue catering to a customer base Ken Szilasi's grandparents Nell and Bernie Weiss began cultivating when they opened the apparel and specialty store in August 1975. He is convinced he is on the best retail corner in metro Jackson, a Northside Drive location he calls “the corner of Main and Main.”

And the corner is about to become much more with the early 2014 opening of the 30,000-square-foot Whole Foods, a hugely popular seller of fresh, organic produce and other healthy and environmentally sustainable food products.

“It will be a whole new dynamic,” Ken Szilasi said of his new co-tenant. “It has a cult following and a great demographic for us.”

What's more, the store will open with the distinction as Mississippi's first Whole Foods.

All things considered, the Szilasis' decision to renew came easy — an established multi-generational following accustomed to the Northside Drive location, easy access off Interstate 55 and a neighbor that will draw customers with the disposable income to add a stop at add Maison Weiss to their Whole Foods visit.

“Of course, I looked,” Ken Szilasi said of potential locations in Ridgeland and Madison. “People talked about Madison County, but I feel being in the Capital City is important.”

What's more, “I love being at the Exit 100. It is so easy to get on and off of.”

And to recall if you're coming from out of town, added Szilasi, who has been running the store with wife Tracy since the early 1980s.

Szilasi describes the 12,000-square-foot Maison Weiss as a “full-service specialty

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As the doors swing open for Mississippi's first Whole Foods store in early January, it may seem as if the entire Magnolia State has motored to Highland Village for the popular retailer's fresh organic produce and specialty food products.

Where will the throngs park?

Highland Village owner WS Development is counting on current parking capacity throughout the 14-acre complex to accommodate the visitors, said Lou Masiello, VP of development.

“We think we can use the parking lot in a more efficient manner,” he said, specifically citing the large lot facing Northside Drive, which the Whole Foods store will also front.

He said WS Development is “initially satisfied” with the available parking.

If circumstances dictate something more to keep parking available, WS Development will consider it, possibly to include a parking structure, according to Masiello.

Ken Szilasi and wife Tracy just signed an eight-year lease renewal for women's fashion and specialty store Maison Weiss. They know parking could become a challenge with the arrival of their 30,000 squarefoot neighbor, especially for a store that has had the luxury of offering customers “front door” parking for their store on the south side of Northside Drive.

“We're not really” concerned about a parking crunch, Ken Szilas said.

He said he has a Maison Weiss store in Oxford that “couldn't have any worse parking.

“If you have something people want, they will work out the parking.”

shop” that sells “pretty much what a department store would sell,” with everything from cosmetics, to shoes to denim to luxury apparel.

The targeted female customer ranges from “16 to gray,” Szilasi said.

With a new eight-year lease, the Ken and Tracy Szilasi plan what will be the fifth remodel of the store since its opening.

The fashion's store remodel won't be the only one taking place at the specialty retail center that spans 14 acres between the I55 East Frontage Road and Old Canton Road up to Northside Drive.

New owners WS Development of Chestnut Hill, Mass., says it will begin redoing the facades of store units that become vacant over the coming months and years.

More immediately, WS Development plans a new facade for the far northern section of the complex where the rear of buildings face I-55, said Lou Masiello, the company's VP of development.

“Roughly the first 50 to 60 percent of the property is populated by stores that face I-55” and will be left alone, he added.

The northern end, which includes a former grocery store that extends to Northside Drive, will get the facelift, according to Masiello.

“We are exploring how to make it more appealing frontage. We think we can make it feel more approachable from I55,” he said.

“It'll likely be done in one fell swoop.”

More open walk-in entrances throughout the 225,000-square-foot property are planned as well, he said. “We think we can improve them to make them more open and inviting” using signage and reconstructing and relocating some entrance ways, bridges and stairways.

“We're tying the property together,” Masiello said. “Many of the merchants want a more evident expression of the brand of their store.”

For now, he said, “We're working with an architect to think up strategies where we can improve on those elements.”

Highland Village's nearly 50 businesses include shops for women's and men's apparel, children's apparel, shoes, jewelry, home and gift, health and beauty and travel. It also has a handful of popular restaurants, a bank and a U.S. Postal Service office.

“We're happy with our tenant mix,” said Masiello, whose company acquired Highland Village in 2012.

The mix, he added, “has a broad-based appeal to multiple demographics.”

Remarkably, he said, the village and its businesses have stayed “special and nostalgic” over the years.

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A new career is booming Âť Pass Christian Olive Oils and Vinegars has taken off

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Bottles above are from the original olive oil shop in Minnesota.

The company is branching out to Pass Christian.

A Minnesota couple with Coast ties is opening a gourmet olive oil and vinegar shop in Pass Christian just like the successful one they opened a year ago in Northfield, Minn.

After Sherry and Joe Morgan opened Northfield Olive Oils and Vinegars in Sherryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home state, both have left their careers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she in banking, he in engineering â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to devote themselves full time to the store.

Morgan was stationed at Keesler Air Force Base and the family lived in Pass Christian prior to Hurricane Katrina.

They moved to Minnesota just before the 2005 storm, which destroyed their house.

Their daughter Kyla moved back to attend the University of Southern Mis-

sissippi on the Coast and is a recent graduate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it be great to do something down South,â&#x20AC;? Joe Morgan recalled.

Pass Christian Olive Oils and Vinegars is located at 141 Davis Avenue. The plan is to have a soft opening a few days before and during the Dec. 6-7 Christmas in the Pass holiday event and then open permanently on Dec. 18. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;We were looking for a location anywhere along the Coast,â&#x20AC;? Morgan said.

They looked in Ocean Springs, Biloxi and finally in the Pass. The spot they chose on Davis Avenue had previously housed a bar so there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much build out to do. Plus, Pass Christian â&#x20AC;&#x153;felt very much like I was at home,â&#x20AC;? Morgan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a chance to come back after we had lost so much.â&#x20AC;?

The other locations may have more foot traffic or are better known for shopping, Morgan said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;But for us it all came together. We had found the perfect place in the place we love.â&#x20AC;?

With a year under their belt operating the Northfield store, Morgan said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s learned that people love balsamic vinegar.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a fantastic experience, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had nothing but success here. The thought is to carry that momentum down South.â&#x20AC;?

The store will have the same setup as the Northfield flagship. There will be 42 varieties each of vinegars and olive oils, with the emphasis on extra virgin olive oils. The shop carries the Ultra Premium category of olive oil that claims to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;the highest quality olive oil in the world.â&#x20AC;?

Morgan said the extra virgin olive oils will come from both hemispheres, depending on the harvest time to ensure having â&#x20AC;&#x153;the freshest oils at all times.â&#x20AC;? For Christmas in the Pass, there will be three varieties from California, among others.

Prices start at $6 a bottle up to $30, higher for gourmet oils. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We keep prices low so the products flow through the store very quickly. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want old oil, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like wine that gets better with age.

The key to oil is freshness,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Prescription abuse too often begins in the home

ublic service advertising for decades has sought to make people aware of the dangers in taking prescription medications not specifically prescribed for themselves, including stealing medications from their parents or others in a household with medicines in an unsecured medicine cabinet.

Many people have breathed a sigh of relief when those television commercials ended or after reading a print advertisement: “I guess we are lucky that nothing like that goes on around here.”

Wrong. Prescription drug abuse in Northeast Mississippi is on the rise, paralleling what’s hap-

pening in many other parts of the United States.

The North Mississippi Narcotics Unit reports that diverted prescriptions meds being sold and used recreationally now rival methamphetamine, marijuana and crack cocaine in the number of users.

So far in 2013, arrests for prescription distribution outnumber those for crack, marijuana, meth and meth manufacture in Fulton, Tupelo, Booneville, Pontotoc, Okolona and Amory, as well as Lee, Itawamba, Prentiss and Chickasaw counties, all part of the North Mississippi Narcotics unit.

It was recently reported that agents detect a greater willingness among many people to

take drugs that are in a bottle whose labels give the contents legitimacy even when the drug/medicine was not prescribed for them.

A label with a pharmacy’s name, perhaps a physician’s name, and the dosage of the drug professionally written gains legitimacy among those who would take it illegally.

The Office of U.S. Attorneys, a U.S. Justice Department affiliate, reports, “Prescription drug abuse is the nation’s fastest-growing drug problem. Distributing a prescription drug, even to a close relative, is a crime and can be prosecuted. It is dangerous and illegal, which ought to be a dissuader.

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Obamacare:Dead or an alternative?

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e are on the eve of a potentially life or death moment for the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

The stakes are high for the Republicans and for President Obama, who is preparing to spend the remainder of his term as the lamest of lame ducks if his signature piece of legislation totally collapses. Based on the latest information pertaining to the condition of the website and public opinion among other things, the demise of Obamacare is much more of a possibility than it has ever been. That being the case perhaps it would be interesting to examine the landscape for all of the stakeholders going forward.

Obviously, the President himself has the most at stake here. His sincere job at overeager salesmanship in promising that all could keep their insurance plan if they were happy with it has proven to be the icing on the moldy, bitter rollout cake. The lack of a working website to be embraced as the alternative to one’s existing insurance plan has spawned panic among those on the edge who had planned to grab the Obamacare lifeline. A complete failure to right the Obamacare ship will doom every initiative left on the President’s agenda and send the already paranoid Democrats into a pell mell, everything man and woman for themselves stampede. On the other hand, if President Obama manages to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat he will likely return to the healthcare hero status that he once occupied.

Lately, the Republicans have found it impossible to avoid breaking out into preliminary end zone dances. It is becoming more obvious that their protracted efforts at massive resistance to the Affordable Care Act may indeed result in the collapse or the outright repeal of the law. Republican euphoria is palpable. The word one hears increasingly is “alternative,” as in what is the Republican alternative in the event of the demise of Obamacare? So far no alternatives have been forthcoming. However, we may not be far away from revisiting a rejected Republican package containing tort reform, the marketing of

insurance across state lines and vouchers for defraying the costs of buying traditional health insurance policies. Will this be viewed as a Marty Wiseman Republican victory with a tangible political payoff or after the dust settles will Republicans be in for the lion’s share of blame for the demise of yet another failed effort at expanding health care coverage for millions of uninsured or under insured Americans? If the latter is the case what will be the political price to be paid by the GOP? In the postmortem the roles of insurance companies will come under scrutiny. Will they have been willing participants in the fullcourt press to bring down Obamcare or will they have simply let uncertainty freeze them in place in the face of any effort they may have made to contribute to a solution?

What is at stake here is a test case on whether insurance companies can be willing collaborators in the next effort to expand coverage. If the answer is “not likely,” the advocates of a single payer system may draw closer to carrying the day.

Then there is the insurance buying, object of illness — the general public. Virtually all of the opinion polls indicate that the majority of this most crucial of groups has lost confidence in the Affordable Care Act as a solution to their health care problems. It can only be assumed that the collapse of Obamacare would return things to the previous condition as far as the relationship of the public and insurance providers is concerned. As the policymakers depart the scene they will once again be replaced by the actuaries. Premiums would resume being calculated based on lifetime caps, the ability to raise premiums when illnesses occur and the denial of coverage in the cases of pre-existing conditions. Services such as mammograms, colonoscopies and birth control would return to a cash-only basis.

Ultimately, where will blame come to rest? Certainly the larger portion of blame will be directed toward the Obama Administration.

This will be so not because the effort was made at creating a national See WISEMAN, Page 7

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tives; that people gain when they trade voluntarily; and that choices ive a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifehave consequences for the future. time.” This quote adequately summarizes a belief that I think most MississipSelena Swartzfager All choices do involve costs. Sometimes the costs are real costs and at pians would be hard pressed to argue against. While there are many ways to other times they are opportunity costs. This knowledge and practice helps young people deimplement this statement into daily life, a method proven to be effective is to velop their critical thinking skills. It helps them start the journey of becoming economically litcreate citizens that are economically literate. erate citizens. In order to experience the importance of exercising the economic way of It is difficult to over-emphasize the importance of education for Mississippi’s future. thinking, I encourage you to practice it for the next month. For each decision you make, conGood education is essential to developing a skilled and motivated workforce that companies sider the cost. For instance, as we enter the holare looking for these days. As our state grows and looks to a prosperous future, the key to » Our children must learn and understand the fundamentals of economic iday season and you choose to purchase that $200 gift for a loved one, consider that not only that future will depend on how good a job we is the real cost $200, but the opportunity cost is do in educating our children. One of the most literacy: That people make choices, and that all choices involve costs; that important elements in this process is ecopeople respond to incentives in predictable ways; that people create eco- what you are not doing with that $200, e.g. saving, paying off a credit card bill, tithing, and so nomic literacy. nomic systems which influence choices and incentives; that people gain when on. If you have young people in your life, help Economic literacy begins with the knowlthem to also practice this way of thinking. edge and practice of the economic way of they trade voluntarily; and that choices have consequences for the future.

When they choose to hang out with friends inthinking. In the state of Mississippi we are stead of studying for an important test at school fortunate that successful completion of a and consequently receiving a bad grade, the opportunity cost of that choice was earning a good course in economics is required for graduation from high school. At the Mississippi Council grade and all the benefits that come from making good grades. If you need a reason to take the on Economic Education, our mission, and our passion, is to provide the training and profestime to reinforce this thought process in our young people, remember that they are your future sional development for the teachers who will to insure that our children are learning the workforce. They are your future customers. They are your future leaders. economic way of thinking.

Our children must learn and understand the fundamentals of economic literacy: That people make choices, and that all choices involve costs; that people respond to incentives in Selena Swartzfager is president of the Mississippi Council for Economic Education. She can be reached at predictable ways; that people create economic systems which influence choices and incenswartsc@millsaps.edu.

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health care program. Indeed, success would be greeted by virtually universal joy at the discovery of a workable solution to one this nation’s most vexing problems. The blame will be based on the appearance of incompetence in the design of policy implementation, thereby resulting in a fabulous opportunity lost.

In all likelihood, a significant measure of blame will redound to Republicans also who will indeed be able to claim success at thwarting the legislative crown jewel of the Obama presidential administration. Will a public who finds itself back at square one as far as health care is concerned share their joy, or will they place the GOP in the same category as those who failed at implementation?

The irony is that the Republicans could steal a major Democratic party victory by offering a workable alternative

or perhaps by merely coming to the table with solutions to save the existing legislation. The likelihood of such a turn of events appears to be slim. In that case the public is the loser and there is ample blame to go around.

Dr. William Martin Wiseman is director of the John C. Stennis Institute of Government and professor of political science at Mississippi State University. Contact him at marty@sig.msstate.edu.

INCORPORATIONS

8 I Mississippi Business Journal I November 29, 2013 September 2013 Incorporations

Harperville

This is the September 2013 list of the state’s newly incorporated businesses from the Secretary of State’s Office. Listed are towns from Gulfport to New Albany. Listings include business name, type, date formed and location. Addresses reflect legal entity for service of process, not necessarily the new business entities’ operating address.

Hattiesburg

Gulfport cont’d Lingsch Ocean Science Consulting LLC

LLC

9/4/13 2218 18Th Street Lou-Bel Enterprises LLC LLC 9/30/13 6026 South Vista Drive MapsTruck Leasing LLC LLC 9/10/13 76 Easy St MaryAnnGriffin PLLC PLLC 9/25/13 2218 18Th Street McNeil Farms LLC LLC 9/4/13 2218 18Th Street MissAna Seafood Overnight LLC LLC 9/19/13 2218 18Th Street Money On Deck Entertainment Limited Liability Company LLC 9/23/13 4221 17Th Street, Apt 306 MR, LLC LLC 9/9/13 12 Keyser Lane Munns Enterprises, Inc. BUS 9/6/13 13140 Trailwood Dr My Father’s Business Ministries, Inc.

NP

9/11/13 13211 Birch Ct NGoodwin Consulting, LLC LLC 9/12/13 2218 18Th Street Nova Properties LLC LLC 9/26/13 16127 Orange Grove Road Nycto Web Development LLC LLC 9/9/13 2218 18Th Street P&M Contractors of Texas, Inc. BUS 9/26/13 12435 Plunkett Road P&M Contractors, Inc. BUS 9/26/13 12435 Plunkett Road PF3 Logistics LLC LLC 9/20/13 15215 Dedeaux Rd Premier Women’s Health, PLLC PLLC 9/3/13 365 Lakeview Blvd. ( Biloxi 39531) Ric’Shawnda Bailey LLC LLC 9/4/13 112 Lee Ct S and D Gun Shop, Inc BUS 9/10/13 28Th-29th Street Suite D Saltgrass Marine, LLC LLC 9/19/13 3201 D Avenue Salus Home Care, LLC LLC 9/12/13 2218 18Th Street School Supplies Plus Much More Inc

Queen Sheba Deli and Tobacco Shop Inc BUS

Centro Cristiano Rey De Gloria NP 9/16/13 10142 Old Hillsboro Road

BUS

9/9/13 301 Darby Street Seaux Dat LLC LLC 9/9/13 2218 18Th Street Shantay’s Rental LLC LLC 9/4/13 2218 18Th Street Sharptech Services, LLC LLC 9/12/13 2218 18Th Street Shelby’s Voice Inc NP 9/10/13 2218 18Th Street Singh Express LLC LLC 9/16/13 167 Teagarden Rd Southern Coast Studios, LLC LLC 9/3/13255 Davis Avenue, Pass Christian, Ms 39571 Stennis and Company LLC LLC 9/9/13 1601 19Th Ave TechSavvy LLC LLC 9/26/13 12221 Ashley Drive, Suite A & B The PSR Group, LLC LLC 9/13/13 14231 Seaway Road, Suite A4 The Randolph-5 LLC LLC 9/23/13 339 Silver Ridge Avenue Thee Lone Reindeer Press, LLC LLC 9/12/13 16 Keyser Lane Tickling Ivory LLC LLC 9/9/13 2408 14Th Street TLK Distribution Company Inc BUS 9/6/13 13120 Hawthern Pl Travis Construction Company, LLC LLC 9/12/13 13224 W Country Hills Drive Trojan Alumni Association, Inc. NP 9/17/13 1430 Lewis Avenue 39501 Undersea Explorations, LLC LLC 9/12/13 1317 26Th Avenue, Suite 320 (39501)

Hamilton Advanced Security and Fire Protection L.L.C. LLC 9/27/13 40182 Seely Road

11th Avenue Investments, LLC LLC 9/27/13 1815 Adeline St 809 Beach Road Tree Farm, LLC LLC 9/17/13 204 Bent Creek Absar, LLC LLC 9/10/13 606 Cox Avenue Advance Remarketing Group, LLC LLC 9/17/13 4202 W. 4th Street After School Academics and Arts Program Inc BUS 9/9/13 107 Wellington Circle Anointed House Calls LLC LLC 9/16/13 3302 Brookwood Dr Back Nine LLC LLC 9/13/13 421 J.M. Tatum Ind. Pk. Dr Bee Gee Styles OTH 9/25/13 51 South Kingsmill Black Hole Investments, LLC LLC 9/18/13 45 J Howell Rd BLDL, LLC LLC 9/25/13 1 Willow Bend Drive BodyBarBootCamps LLC LLC 9/12/13 207 East Front Street Loft 206 Bona Fide Data, LLC LLC 9/23/13 6645 Highway 98 Suite 3 C Johnson & Co., LLC LLC 9/13/13 309 South 40th Avenue Consilium1, LLC LLC 9/3/13 208 N. 20th Avenue D.E.R. Inc. BUS 9/4/13 700 W. 6th Street Development Group of Hattiesburg, LLC LLC

9/26/13 100 Sims Road Dirty Houses, LLC LLC 9/16/13 2010 Alta Woods Jackson, Ms 39204 E2Z Trave LLC LLC 9/25/13 9 Tuckahoe Express Insurance LLC LLC 9/24/13 132 Crystal Creek Fox Den Safe Rooms Inc. BUS 9/27/13 5266 Old Highway 11 Front Street Salon LLC LLC 9/4/13 106 Short Bay Street Greater Southeast Construction, LLC

LLC

9/17/13 140 Mayfair Road, Suite 700 Grieder Design Studio LLC LLC 9/18/13 817 E. Laurel Avenue Grub Gourmet Popcorn, LLC LLC 9/30/13 107 Creedmoor HAH Corporation BUS 9/27/13 103 N 19th Avenue Halls Distribution Company Inc BUS 9/6/13 102 Raintree Cir Herring-Long Investments LLC LLC 9/11/13 103 North 19th Avenue HubSouth Safety Solutions, LLC LLC 9/3/13 2302 Sutton Place Ishnuvu Music, LLC LLC 9/10/13 606 Cox Avenue J&J Construction LLC LLC 9/6/13 3 Courtland Drive Apt 21 JJ & ME 2 LLC LLC 9/18/13 129 Wedgewood Trace Kevin Smith Inc. BUS 9/4/13 715 Berkshire Drive Lamar Convenience Store, LLC LLC 9/6/13 1011 Hardy Street LCQ Aviation, Inc. BUS 9/20/13 22 Marine Circle LeFan Properties, LLC LLC 9/26/13 105 Chaucer Circle M.A.A.J. Investments, LLC LLC 9/23/13 165 Tallulah Ridge Mark Arnett Construction LLC LLC 9/20/13 131 Dubose Road Miller Development Group, LLC LLC 9/12/13 136 Wilson Road Mississippi Mixers LLC LLC 9/6/13 126 Pinehills Dr MKyle Productions, LLC LLC 9/25/13 602 Woodland Hills Drive Molalac LLC LLC 9/16/13 200 South 27th Avenue Noah’s Ark Ministries NP 9/11/13 1014 East Hardy St Performance Tire and Lube, LLC LLC 9/13/13 136 Wilson Road Posey Insurance Agency LLC LLC 9/3/13 310 2Nd Avenue Premier Associate Agents LLC LLC 9/24/13 5891 US Hwy 49 Ste 60-201 PV-OLP Group, LLC LLC 9/11/13 29 Honors Drive PV-OLP Partners, LLC LLC 9/11/13 29 Honors Drive

9/16/13 1011 Hardy Street Smart Choice Automotive, LLC LLC 9/3/13 6524 Us Highway 98 Sonic Drive-In of Wiggins, MS, LLCLLC 9/5/13 3 Cameron Place South Mississippi Tax Group LLC LLC 9/9/13 215 Broadway Drive St Staats Services LLC LLC 9/6/13 20 Franklin Place Superior Plumbing Company, LLC LLC 9/19/13 21 Taylors Turn T & W Ventures, LLC LLC 9/30/13 5 Willow Bend Dr T.J. Distribution Inc BUS 9/6/13 2749 Oak Grove Rd Lot 258 T.Y.B.B., L.L.C. LLC 9/24/13 6524 U.S. Hwy 98 Tangi A Carter, PLLC PLLC 9/16/13 404 Hemphill Street Team 51 Ministry NP 9/13/13 805 Monterrey Ln The Carol Jones Russell Law Firm PLLC PLLC

9/9/13 706 Tuscan Avenue Thomley Properties, LLC LLC 9/25/13 23 Deer Valley Drive Tractors Unlimited, LLC LLC 9/16/13 1507 North Main Street Tudoodle NP 9/26/13 26 Sailfish Circle Tunstall Logistics LLC LLC 9/18/13 12 Clear Springs Ct U S Nail I, LLC LLC 9/16/13 2902 Hardy St Ste 20 Universal Medical Equipment, Inc.BUS 9/10/13 334 N 25th Ave Ste B Variety King Express #215, LLC LLC 9/9/13 7048 US Hwy 49 N Vickers Timber Holdings, LLC LLC 9/20/13 309 S. 40th Avenue

Hazlehurst Big Calvin Inc. BUS 9/12/13 2108 Old Natchez Road Copiah Pleasant Ridge Cemetery Inc

NP

9/17/13 3024 Goza Stegall Road MT GP LLC LLC 9/4/13 246 West Gallatin St Taylor & Jeanes, LLC LLC 9/11/13 330 South Extension Street

Heidelberg Parker Resources, Inc. BUS 9/10/13 102 Ned Dillard Rd.

Hernando BEL Properties, LLC LLC 9/3/13 3873 Myrtlewood Drive Blues City Hardwood Floors LLC LLC 9/26/13 9235 Coryelle Ln Brelli Trading, LLC LLC 9/25/13 4790 Conner Drive Delta Moon Farm LLC LLC 9/12/13 1457 Highway 304 Di Donna Colour Studio, LLC LLC 9/10/13 793 - Shadow View Dr. JAW Rentals, LLC LLC 9/3/13 2042 McIngvale Road Poplar Property Management, LLCLLC 9/19/13 2042 McIngvale Road Victory USA Custom Shadow Boxes LLC LLC

9/5/13

4818 Bright Heights Drive

Hollandale CoCo Farms Planters Stock, LLC LLC 9/27/13 5077 Highway 1 South

Holly Springs Abbeville Market LLC LLC 9/3/13 126 N Spring Street M and A Management Inc BUS 9/6/13 175 Whaley Dr New Albany Animal Clinic Inc. BUS 9/23/13 126 N Spring Street SMS Contractors Inc. BUS 9/20/13 2369 Hwy 331 N

Horn Lake AAA Investments, LLC LLC 9/24/13 3408 Laurelwood Drive American Towing LLC LLC 9/17/13 2620 Goodman Road D & M Trucking, LLC LLC 9/27/13 3760 Carroll Drive Doma, LLC LLC 9/24/13 1761 Dancy Blvd East Avenue Boutique LLC LLC 9/24/13 4249 Brighton Drive

Faith Ministries C.O.G.I.C. NP 9/18/13 6341 Highway 51 Suite #1 Kreole Soul LLC LLC 9/25/13 2632 Pintail Dr

Houston Adobe Management, LLC LLC 9/16/13 111 East Washington Street Cairn Management, LLC LLC 9/26/13 111 East Washington Street JS Consultants, LLC LLC 9/23/13 111 East Washington Street Limaylla Medical Services, LLC LLC 9/24/13 111 East Washington Street Norlander Medical Services, PLLCPLLC 9/27/13 111 East Washington Street STR8 RYDERZ Motorcycle Club NP 9/19/13 227 Mill Drive

Indianola Delta Care Hope Foundation NP 9/24/13 1011 French Road Flatland Aviation, LLC LLC 9/10/13 788 Tharp Road (Isola 38754) North Mississippi Safety LLC LLC 9/19/13 505 E Percy Street

Isola Bayou Equipment Sales Inc BUS 9/25/13 10491 State Hwy 12 W

Itta Bena Mission in the Delta Inc. NP 9/23/13 41295 County Rd 515

Iuka Flash Cats Animal Advocacy NP 9/5/13 111 North Main Street Generations NP 9/6/13 6 Betty Blvd

Jackson $mart Club LLC LLC 9/11/13 10 Canebrake Blvd., Suite 200 1855 Crane Ridge Property, LLC LLC 9/25/13 5 Old River Place, Ste 107 3 Ribbons Foundation NP 9/27/13 4901 McWillie Circle Apt 433 A&M Medical Associates, LLC LLC 9/27/13 2040 Petit Bois St (39211) A&R Painting and Construction, Inc.

BUS

9/25/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 ADEX Corporation BUS 9/3/13 840 Trustmark Building Adex Telecom Corp BUS 9/3/13 840 Trustmark Building ADKingston Enterprises, LLC LLC 9/24/13 451 Queen Marie Ln Advance Financial Management Inc.

BUS

9/12/13 611 West Farish St Advanced Environmental Scientific, Corp.

BUS 9/25/13 1563 E County Line Rd Ste 106 Agee’s Key Auto Sales, LLC LLC 9/17/13 506 South President Street Alacrity Renovation Services LLC LLC 9/11/13 506 South President Street Albriton Properties- Tupelo, LLC LLC 9/24/13 5145 Canton Heights Drive Alianza Inc BUS 9/3/13 506 South President Street Alliant Capital Management LLC LLC 9/27/13 506 South President Street Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, IncorporatedAlpha Epsilon Lambda Chapter NP

9/11/13 4838 Chastain Drive Alutiiq General Contractors, LLC LLC 9/6/13 506 South President Street Alzina’s Virtual Assisting, LLC LLC 9/23/13 3766 Meadow Lane, Jackson MS 39212 ARC ABHNDMS001, LLC LLC 9/23/13 506 South President Street ARC ARGWDMS001 LLC LLC 9/12/13 506 South President Street ARC KLCNTMS001 LLC LLC 9/12/13 506 South President Street Armond Terrell Brownlee DBA OTH 9/16/13 3975 I-55 North Apt U4 Asset Campus Housing, Inc. BUS 9/30/13 506 South President Street Associated Energy Services, LP LP 9/26/13 506 South President Street Association of Contemporary Issues in Higher Education NP 9/17/13 792 Woodhill Rd Autumn Innovations, LLC LLC 9/13/13 213 S. Lamar Jackson, MS 39201

Bloom Therapeutic Group Home LLC

9/6/13

LLC

5440 Executive Pl , Ste B Jackson Ms 39206

Boland Petroleum Land Services LLC

LLC

9/23/13 2018 Meadowbrook Road Brown Flooring & Home Improvement, LLC LLC 9/3/13 451 Mason Boulevard C&R Trucking LLC LLC 9/30/13 30A Northtown Rd Cache Inc BUS 9/6/13 506 South President Street Caliper Marine, LLC LLC 9/26/13 506 South President Street Camp Hookah, LLC LLC 9/11/13 315 Maywood Cir Central Charlotte LLC LLC 9/12/13 506 South President Street Central Mississippi Sitters Limited Liability Company LLC 9/3/13 1722 Casteel Dr. Chewning & Wilmer Incorporated BUS 9/9/13 506 South President Street Choctaw Management, LLC LLC 9/18/13 506 South President Street City of Refuge Church of God in Christ

NP

9/16/13 164 Mayfair Dr Clinton Development Group, LLC LLC 9/19/13 1437 Old Square Road, Suite 104 Cohran Publishing Company LLC LLC 9/23/13 1062 Central St Cole Taylor Equipment Finance LLCLLC 9/9/13 506 South President Street Communications International IncBUS 9/6/13 506 South President Street Conversations Mississippi NP 9/27/13 1227 First Avenue Crescent Directional Drilling, L.P. LP 9/9/13 506 South President Street Crockett and Company LLC LLC 9/4/13 629 Magnolia Crumley Companies, LLC LLC 9/19/13 140 Crumley House Rd. Crumley Properties, LLC LLC 9/26/13 140 Crumley House Rd. Curtis Law Firm, PLLC PLLC 9/23/13 525 E Capitol St Ste 405 Cypress Landing, LLC LLC 9/6/131400 Meadowbrook Road, Suite 102 David Yurman Holdings LLC LLC 9/12/13 506 South President Street Della R. Myers Ministry NP 9/23/13 1133 Marble Street District Hotel Group, LLC LLC 9/11/13 308 East Pearl Street, Suite 200 Double Cc Transport Inc BUS 9/25/13 1560 Dewey St Downrange Sporting Goods, LLC LLC 9/19/13 318 South State Street East Flora Fields Interests LLC LLC 9/30/13Suite 200, 814 N. President St, Jackson, Ms 39202 Eckles Mobile Shredding Company, LLC LLC

9/24/13 506 South President Street Edwards Steel Solutions, LLC LLC 9/5/13 4268 I-55 North Elder Mineral Investments, LLC LLC 9/9/13 3670 Lakeland Lane Eline Co. LLC LLC 9/6/13 4323 Meadow Hill Rd (39206) Encompass 360 LLC LLC 9/23/13 4130 Crane Boulevard Engel Realty Company, LLC LLC 9/3/13 506 South President Street ENTP-1, LLC LLC 9/25/13 4450 Old Canton Rd, Ste 200, Jackson, MS 39211 Fairchild & Truman Construction LLC

LLC

9/12/13 1333 Woodfield Dr FBR Security LLC LLC 9/16/13 164 Holly Hill Dr FJE LLC LLC 9/23/13 318 South State Street Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC LLC 9/19/13 506 South President Street Foxx Investigations, LLC LLC 9/3/13 129B S President Street Friends of Boy Scout Troop #1 NP 9/19/13 2217 Wild Valley Drive Friends of Survivors NP 9/9/13 1428 Perkins St 39213 Full Scope Development DBA OTH 9/16/13 3975 I-55 North Apt U4 Fultondale Investments LLC LLC 9/23/13 704 N President G S Food Mart LLC LLC 9/5/13 816 W. Mayes St Getcha Row-Out Records, LLC 9/25/13 5000 Ridgewood Rd. Apt. 1005 Getcha Row-Out Records, LLC LLC 9/25/13 5000 Ridgewood Rd. Apt. 1005

GI Mississippi, PLLC PLLC 9/30/134268 I-55 North (Meadowbrook Office Park) 39211

Gold Toe Stores Inc. BUS 9/13/13 506 South President Street Goodman Dean, Inc. BUS 9/17/13 405 Briarwood Dr Ste 103 A H Bungalow LLC LLC 9/26/13188 East Capitol Street, Suite 1400 Haines Gipson & Associates Inc BUS 9/26/13 506 South President Street Hamilton - Ryker IT Solutions LLC LLC 9/9/13 506 South President Street Harper Health Services Inc BUS 9/25/13 3712 John F Kennedy Boulevard Harris, Rothenberg International Inc

BUS

9/26/13 506 South President Street Hartz Energy Capital, LLC LLC 9/16/13 506 South President Street Harvesters Land Company, LLC LLC 9/4/13 4268 I-55 N (Meadowbrook Office Park) Healthy Regards, LLC LLC 9/11/13 1025 Manship St Heart to Heart Holistic Healthcare Services LLC LLC 9/10/13 1206 Cox Street Heartland Dental Care, LLC LLC 9/11/13 506 South President Street Hensel Phelps Services LLC LLC 9/30/13 506 South President Street Heyward C Green Family Asset Management LLC LLC 9/10/13 4127 Dogwood Drive Host Healthcare, Inc. BUS 9/26/13 248 E. Capitol Street, Suite 840 Humana EAP Work-Life Services-DBA BUS

9/26/13 506 South President Street Hydromassage Inc. BUS 9/9/13 506 South President Street Impact Enterprises LLC LLC 9/5/13 502 Valley St. Independent Beer Distributors LLCLLC 9/24/13 1400 Meadowbrook Road, Suite 100 Independent Beverage Holdings LLC LLC 9/24/13 1400 Meadowbrook Road, Suite 100

Independent Wine and Spirits, LLCLLC 9/24/13 1400 Meadowbrook Road, Suite 100 Innvictis Crop Care, LLC LLC 9/16/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Integra - Jackson DBA 9/10/13 Jones Walker LLP Integra - Jackson DBA LLC 9/12/13 Jones Walker LLP Integra Realty Resources - Jackson DBA LLC

9/12/13

Jones Walker LLP

Integra Realty Resources - Jackson DBA

9/10/13

Jones Walker LLP

Integra Realty Resources - Jackson, LLC

9/10/13

Jones Walker LLP

Integra Realty Resources - Jackson, LLC LLC

9/12/13 Jones Walker LLP Integra Realty Resources Mississippi, LLC LLC 9/12/13 Jones Walker LLP Integra Realty Resources Mississippi, LLC 9/10/13 Jones Walker LLP IRR - Jackson DBA 9/10/13 Jones Walker LLP IRR - Jackson DBA LLC 9/12/13 Jones Walker LLP J & J Moak, Inc. BUS 9/17/13 3840 I-55 South J.W. Moore DBA OTH 9/9/13 401 Alta Woods Blvd.

Jack & Associates Inc BUS 9/6/13 4450 Old Canton Road, Suite 200 39211 JAT Oil, Inc. BUS 9/26/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 JEM-Turning Hearts DBA NP 9/11/13 18 Rob Ln JFH Sr. Inc. BUS 9/19/13 628 North State Street (39202) Joel Ekugwum Ministries NP 9/11/13 18 Rob Ln JTL Enterprises, Inc BUS 9/9/13 506 South President Street K & T Ward Enterprises, L.L.C. LLC 9/17/13 211 Springfield Cir. K.C.K. Insurance Agency LLC LLC 9/19/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Katina’s NBK LLC LLC 9/16/13 535 Woodbury Rd Kc Express Realty, LLC LLC 9/25/13 953 Hwy 51, Suite D (Madison 39110) Kreative Marketing Solutions LLC LLC 9/9/13 737 Primos Avenue L.A. Xcess Insurance Brokers Inc BUS 9/6/13 506 South President Street LA Brioche, LLC LLC 9/24/13 931 Hwy. 80 West, Suite 174F

LaDor’s Cleaning Service LLC LLC 9/26/13 3530 W Capitol St Lanier High School Class of ‘99 NP 9/18/13 1539 Weeks Street 39213 LATX Oilfield Services, LLC LLC 9/12/13 405 Briarwood Dr Ste 103 A Law Office of Tchanavia Bryant, PLLC LLC 9/25/13 525 East Capitol Street, Suite 405 39201

Lee Mechanical & Plumbing LLC LLC 9/20/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Life and Legacy Financial LLC LLC 9/4/13 5898 Ridgewood road ste A LifeFlicks, LLC LLC 9/25/13 5905 Whitestone Road Lincoln Appraisal & Settlement Services, LLC LLC 9/20/13 506 South President Street Liquidation Center LLC LLC 9/11/13 10 Canebrake Blvd., Suite 200 Little Children Education NP 9/9/13 108 Claude Dr Lyons Law Firm, P.L.L.C. PLLC 9/20/13 525 E Capitol St., Suite 405 M. Floyd Forestry, LLC LLC 9/27/13 5898 Ridgewood Road, Suite D Madison Steel, Inc. BUS 9/13/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Main Street Renewal LLC LLC 9/3/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Maris Minerals, LLC LLC 9/17/13 257 Brae Burn Drive MBD Minerals LLC LLC 9/9/13 3670 Lakeland Lane McAllister’s Personal Care Home LLC

LLC

9/11/13 2822 Gretna Green St McLaurin Oil, LLC LLC 9/25/13 425 West Capitol Street Menold Paving & Sealcoating, LLC LLC 9/12/13 506 South President Street Mid-South Engine Components LLCLLC 9/3/13 2405 Southwood Rd Mississipp Accountable Care NP 9/26/13350 West Woodrow Wilson, Suite 499A Mississippi Comprehensive Care ACO LLCLLC 9/30/13350 West Woodrow Wilson, Suite 499A

Mississippi Documentary Project NP 9/9/13 4004 Eastwood Drive Mobility Ventures LLC LLC 9/27/13 506 South President Street Molina Healthcare, Inc. BUS 9/25/13 506 South President Street More and Associates DBA OTH 9/9/13 401 Alta Woods Blvd.

Nail Lyfe LLC LLC 9/12/13 323 Cedars of Lebanon Dr National Multiple Sclerosis SocietyNP 9/23/13 506 South President Street New Adventure Trucking Inc BUS 9/19/13 632 Woodbury Rd Newton Associates LLC LLC 9/23/13188 East Capitol Street, Suite 1400 Nineveh Community Outreach Center, Inc.NP

9/5/13 5924 Woodhaven Road OffBeat Art LLC LLC 9/16/13 1010 A. Bellevue Place Okolona Townhouses LLC LLC 9/23/13 704 N President Online Discount Warehouse, Limited Liability Company LLC 9/9/13 4056 Torrey Pines Dr Ontargetjobs, Inc. BUS 9/5/13 506 South President Street Optimal Payments Services Inc BUS 9/27/13 506 South President Street Partner Professional Solutions LLCLLC 9/26/13 405 Briarwood DR STE 103A Patient Pathways LLC LLC 9/26/13 506 South President Street Pearl Brandon LLC LLC 9/11/13 537 Pemerton Dr. Pearl, Ms. 39208 Pearl River Royalty Company LLC LLC 9/27/13 506 South President Street Penn’s Restaurant LLC LLC 9/5/13 587 A Beasley Rd PEPS II, Inc BUS 9/23/13 1485 Livingston Ln Phenomenal Records LLC LLC 9/16/13 3975 I-55 North Apt. U4 Phoenix Design Group Inc BUS 9/6/13 506 South President Street Pilates V (Viva) Studio for Health & Wellness, Inc. BUS 9/3/13 1867 Crane Ridge Dr Pinkman Properties, LLC LLC 9/5/13 401 E. Capitol St., Suite 414 Pinnacle Agriculture Enterprises, LLC

LLC

9/16/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Pinnacle Nuclear Services, L.L.C. LLC 9/23/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840

INCORPORATIONS Pinnacle Nuclear Services, L.L.C. 9/9/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 PinUP Girl Curves, LLC LLC 9/9/13 386 Raymond Rd., Apt. #52F Point Wireless Services, Ltd. BUS 9/23/13 248 E CAPITOL STREET # 840 Popcorn Ally, LLC LLC 9/17/13 3670 Lakeland Lane PPS Holdings LLC LLC 9/26/13 405 Briarwood DR STE 103A Precision Home Services, LLC LLC 9/12/13 506 South President Street Premier Dermatology and Skin Cancer Center, PLLC PLLC 9/11/13 188 East Capitol Street, Suite 1400 Pro-Teck Services Ltd. BUS 9/17/13 506 South President Street Professional Staff Management, Inc II BUS

9/4/13 248 E. Capitol Street, Suite 840 Puppy Love Doggie Daycare, LLC LLC 9/17/13 640 Chickasaw Ave Purple Wood Center, LLC LLC 9/24/13 4230 Council Circle Ready Wireless, LLC LLC 9/25/13 506 South President Street Realtex-USA Assets I, LLC LLC 9/19/134268 I-55 North Meadowbrook Office Park (39211) Robbins Government Services Inc.BUS 9/17/13 506 South President Street Roco-Eastgate LLC LLC 9/19/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Roco-Northgate LLC LLC 9/19/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840

The Red Hot LLC LLC 9/16/13 5405 River Thames Rd ThinkDusk, LLC LLC 9/6/13 188 East Capitol Street, Suite 1400 ThinkDust, LLC LLC 9/6/13 188 East Capitol Street, Suite 1400 Thompson Insurance Group LLC LLC 9/4/13 1880 Lakeland Drive, Suite C Tienda Santa Fe II LLC LLC 9/16/13 2615 Robinson Street Totus EH & S Services Inc BUS 9/18/13 506 South President Street TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corp BUS 9/25/13 506 South President Street TruTech, LLC LLC 9/11/13 506 South President Street Tupelo Manufacturing Acquisition Inc BUS

9/19/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840 Tweet by Ollie LLC LLC 9/5/13 424 Glenway Dr Tweets By Ollie DBA LLC 9/5/13 424 Glenway Dr U.S. Water Services, Inc. BUS 9/6/13 840 Trustmark Building U2S4 OTH 9/12/13 1523 E County Line Rd #P126 Urban Glam LLC LLC 9/20/13 379 Sharon Hills Dr Utown Emergency Physicians, LLC LLC 9/17/13 506 South President Street Valuation Link, L.L.C. LLC 9/16/13 506 South President Street Virtus Storage Management IV GP LLC LLC

9/27/13 248 East Capitol Street, Suite 840

Roxbury Petroleum Land Services, LLC LLC

W & W Construction of Jackson, LLC

9/27/13 3945 Roxbury Road S&D Holdings, LLC LLC 9/20/13188 East Capitol Street, Suite 1400 Sayv Mobile, LLC LLC 9/26/13 401 East Capitol 100-M Heritage Bldg

9/25/13126 Carter Ave., Jackson Ms 39209 Wailes Company, LLC LLC 9/20/13 1703 Howard St Warrantech Direct, Inc. BUS 9/12/13 506 South President Street WBM Consulting LLC LLC 9/4/13 5150 Sedgwick Drive Wholesale Contractors Supply, LLCLLC 9/3/13 550 Grandview Circle WST, LLC LLC 9/9/13 1900C Hwy 80W Yarber Consulting LLC LLC 9/5/13 1605 Dorgan Street

Security National Mortgage Company BUS

9/6/13 506 South President Street SEL Engineering, LLC LLC 9/5/13 506 South President Street Shell One Stop LLC LLC 9/5/13 587 Beasley Rd Significant Development, LLC 9/27/13 477 Pimlico Place Silicon Graphics Federal, LLC LLC 9/27/13 506 South President Street Simmons Construction Renovators LLC LLC

9/9/13

524 Campbell St.

SN Properties Funding IV- Leigh Mall, LLCLLC

9/24/13 506 South President Street South Bay Financial Services, LLC LLC 9/23/13 840 Trustmark Building Southeast Landscapes, LLC LLC 9/6/13 3806 Montrose Cir Southern Harmony Sales LLC LLC 9/20/13 4516 Office Park Drive Speak Wise, LLC LLC 9/24/13 300 Concourse Blvd. Suite 200 (Ridgeland 39157)

Springdale Winnelson Co. BUS 9/11/13 506 South President Street Steamin Beemon Carpet Cleaning LLC

LLC

9/9/13 492 East Beasley Rd. Apt. 58 Storage Max Tupelo 4, LLC LLC 9/9/13 40 Northtown Dr Sunflower Property LLC LLC 9/3/13 5610 Shaw Rd Apt 621 T.E. Barnett Corporation BUS 9/4/13 1058 Ridewood Place, Suite F Taste of the South, LLC LLC 9/4/13 190 East Capitol St. (suite 100) Tata Communications (America) Inc.

BUS

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10 I Mississippi Business Journal I November 29, 2013 HIGHER EDUCATION

UMMC’s Landmark purchase gets IHL nod » Relocations into the center won’t begin until the roof is replaced and other build-out requirements are completed

By TED CARTER I STAFF WRITER ted.carter@msbusiness.com

A sizeable chunk of downtown Jackson’s vacant office space will soon move to the occupied side of the ledger with the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s planned purchase of the Landmark Center.

The two-year-wait for an occupant for the 366,500 square-foot building at the corner of Capitol and Lamar streets ended Nov. 21 with UMMC getting a green light from the Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning to buy the building.

The Landmark Center, 175 East Capitol Street, has been empty since principal tenant AT&T departed two years ago.

Downtown boosters had hoped the state would follow through on a previous plan to put the Mississippi Department of Revenue in the building. Those hopes died with the state’s decision to move the DOR into Clinton’s South Pointe Business Park, the former headquarters of WorldCom. Boosters lamented the increase the empty Landmark Center made to the Central Business District’s overall office vacancy rate, bringing the total into the mid to high 30 percent range. Once most of the Landmark’s space is occupied, the vacancy rate for all classes of office space should return to a percentage in the mid to high 20s.

UMMC has been authorized to buy the seven-floor Landmark from Capitol Street Associates, a New York investment group, for $6.25 million. Each of the 15 members of the group must agree to the deal, the IHL says.

The $6.25 million is approximately half the amount Capitol Street Associates sought three years ago when the building was the recommended choice for the DOR home.

However, UMMC must pay to replace the roof of the approximately 30-year-old building and renovate each of the floors as the medical center decides which part of its operations will occupy the floors.

Relocations into the center won’t begin until the roof is

UMMC RESERVING 400 CAPITOL STREET PARKING SPACES AT OUTSET

By TED CARTER I STAFF WRITER ted.carter@msbusiness.com

University of Mississippi Medical Center will lease up to 400 enclosed parking spaces from neighboring One Jackson Place, 100 East Capitol Street, under a lease goes into effect in December.

UMMC will continue to provide free parking to employees at Memorial Stadium and will provide a shuttle for travel to jobs at the Landmark. The medical center expects to charge employees a 35 a month rate to park at the 100 East Capitol Street garage.

UMMC will lease yp up to 400 spaces in the first year but will have the option of expanding to up to 700 spaces per nonth

replaced and other build-out requirements are completed, said Tom Fortner, UMMC’s chief of public affairs.

As a work center, the Landmark can accommodate up to 1,000 employees, he said.

The Landmark will serve as a relief valve of sorts, allowing UMMC to shift increasing amounts of its administrative functions to the downtown building, thus freeing up capacity for the center’s medical treatment, research and education functions, Fortner added.

“We’re looking at all our options.”

UMMC plans to fill the Landmark one floor at a time,

Pelahatchie-based Multicraft International has also added jobs from Mexico after landing new work from Chrysler. Chrysler chose automotive components-maker Multicraft over concerns in South Korea, Europe and • The state’s proximity to markets in Central and Mexico citing quality control issues in Mexico. Multicraft South America also won Chrysler’s hemi-magnetic and wire harness “A recent report from the Boston Consulting Group said work once done in Mexico due to competitive pricing that if this continues, we will be almost at parity with and quality control issues, among other factors.

China,” Moon says. “In fact, China has accumulated so Paul Jones, executive vice president of Multicraft, told much capital that investor groups are forming that are the MBJ: “The buyer indicated that it came down to trust.” looking at our region (to site plants).

Just last week it was announced that the Port of “I recently met with some Japanese officials, and the Pascagoula was asking the Jackson County Board of Southeast continues to be attractive to them as a Supervisors for a loan in support of a new wood pellet jumping off place for Latin America. Germany and exporting facility. Florida-based Green Circle Bio Energy Eastern Europe are also looking at the Southeast.”

Inc., which plans to build a $115-million wood pellet plant in Indeed, some “reverse shoring” and foreign investment George County, will use the site to export up to 500,000 news has made headlines of late. As example, AirGuide tons of pellets per year to European utility companies.

Manufacturing, an HVAC producer, recently announced it Moon says he sees the aforementioned MSU grant was shifting operations from Mexico and China to ($1,931,935), part of the "Make it in America Challenge" Clarksdale. Doug Marty, CEO of AirGuide, told the MBJ: and made possible through the U.S. Commerce “We’re making contingency plans for expansion of that Department's Economic Development Administration, already. We’re looking at adding another 60,000 to the U.S. Labor Department's Employment and Training 65,000 square feet.”

Administration and the Delta Regional Authority, as

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with the medical center’s Tele Health Services Group going in first and followed by various other administrative support departments.

Tele Health Services is a key component of UMMC’s rural hospital support network, offering a hardwire connection to each of the hospital’s emergency departments, Fortner said.

The network provides the rural ERs voice and picture two-way linkups to medical specialists at the Tele Health operations center. More than a dozen hospitals are linked to the network, which UMMC recently expanded to include psychiatric care and stroke treatment consultations.

For now, UMMC’s 300-member billing operation will remain at Clinton’s South Pointe Business Park. UMMC has about 10 years remaining on its South Pointe lease, according to Fortner, who added the medical center has discussed subletting the space with leasing agent Duckworth Realty.

“That’s all to be determined,” he said.

Fortner said estimates are that building the space the Landmark will provide would have cost UMMC $60 million.

Sen. David Blount, a metro Jackson resident and chair of the Senate Public Property Committee, pushed hard for the selection of the Landmark as the new headquarters for the state Department of Revenue. Gaining UMMC as the building’s owner and occupant is a satisfying consolation prize for Blount.

“I’ve been working on that building for about two years,” he said in an interview Monday. “It’s a good deal for the state of Mississippi, a good deal for University of Mississippi Medical Center and a great deal for the city.”

Blount said he will revive efforts this year to persuade lawmakers to support a proposal to consolidate more state offices into the Central Business District.

Blount commissioned a study by Millsaps College’s Else School of Management that projects a $5 million a year savings by reducing the state’s average rentable square footage for each worker by 33 percent, down to the federal standard of 218 square feet from the current 323 square feet. That calculation included the state buying the Landmark for about $6.5 million. A new Millsaps study to be presented to legislators in January will remove the Landmark from the calculation, Blount said.

“The fact remains we have agencies spread out all over the metro area with no comprehensive strategic plan.”

another tool in helping recoup and/or retain manufacturing jobs.

David Shaw, MSU vice president for research and economic development, agrees.

"The U.S. as a whole and Mississippi in some of our industry sectors have lost a number of jobs that have moved overseas. When considering the cost of transportation, the cost of logistics and the quality of the workforce, it's very easy to justify bringing those jobs back to Mississippi and back to the U.S.," Shaw said in a statement when the grant was announced earlier this month.

“Like every other market, we lost manufacturing jobs during the recession,” Moon says. The grant and other efforts put Mississippi and the Southeast in an advantageous position as the economy starts to turn, he adds.

Challenges remain, however. Having a quality, trained workforce in place to fill new manufacturing positions is one. The quality of the state’s roads and bridges is another issue dogging recruitment efforts.

Moon serves on the legislative committee currently exploring options to maintain the state’s crumbling

infrastructure. At heart of the issue is a lack of funding under the 1987 highway program, which set an 18-cent fuel tax. The flat tax and escalating costs has left the state with insufficient funds for infrastructure upkeep.

Manufacturing, agriculture/forestry and trucking are just a few of the industries lobbying for increased funding, though the groups still have questions as to the new mechanism, the process of identifying which roads and bridges would be given priority, among others.

Still, many feel that there is a reversal of fortune at hand.

Guy Lipscomb, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Southern Motion Furniture, told the MBJ that his company had been getting pressure from retailers to move its production to China, and admitted to getting “pretty beat up” over the issue. Those requests have faded of late, and other than fabric and leather materials work that the Pontotoc company could only find in Europe and China, Southern Motion remains totally domestic.

“Our state is going to be elite in the reshoring process,” Lipscomb says.

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Moving the Saints through the NFL

By LISA MONTI I CONTRIBUTOR mbj@msbusiness.com

Before the New Orleans Saints take the field, John Fayard Moving and Warehousing crews have to deliver the footballs, uniforms, video equipment and tons of other black and gold equipment from the team training facility to the Mercedes Benz Superdome.

For out-of-town games, Fayard hauls equipment to the New Orleans airport and a second crew drives to the hosting stadium. Only New York and Foxboro are out of range.

This is the first year the Gulfport moving company has had the contract with the Saints and the team’s winning season is icing on the cake for the family-owned movers and their employees.

“The whole experience has been neat for our associates and everybody’s been really excited about the season they’re having. On Fridays we have casual day and a lot of folks wear Saints gear,” said John Fayard, himself a season-ticket holder.

Fayard approached team officials earlier this year about moving the team equipment.

“We toured the facility and had a nice meeting with them,” he said. “Several weeks later they came over to tour our facility and basically see our operations.”

The Saints equipment managers then asked Fayard to do a test run to the Louis Armstrong International Airport and the Mercedes Benz Superdome. Soon after, they got the job.

In typical fashion, Fayard went the extra mile for their new customer. The company had monogrammed uniforms specially made for the moving crew members to coordinate with the Saints game day uniform colors. “When the Saints dress out in black, we wear black. When they wear white, we wear white shirts and black pants. They’re very nice and the guys look really professional,” Fayard said.

With the team’s approval, the company also bought “wraps” for the two new trucks bought especially to haul Saints gear. One wrap is a truck-sized photo from a SaintsGreen Bay game and the other shows hulking Saints linemen in a three-point stance.

“It’s kind of a moving billboard for the Saints but it gives us name recognition, too,

for the Mississippi Business Journal

John Fayard Moving and Warehousing crews have to deliver the footballs, uniforms, video equipment and tons of other black and gold equipment from the team training facility to the Mercedes Benz Superdome.

that we’re the official moving partner of the New Orleans Saints,” Fayard said.

One new truck is a 16-footer, and the second, a 24-foot truck has a special lift gate for the equipment. Fayard said he typically would use a 26-foot truck but went for the shorter length because of where the truck would be parked at the Dome. “If we had the 26-footer, we’d block the entrance to one of the busiest elevators in the Superdome so we had to have a 24-foot truck,” Fayard said. The estimated weight of the equipment in the larger truck is 12,000 pounds.

Fayard has moved the team equipment for every game starting with the preseason.

Crews pick up the footballs, helmets, uniforms, shoes and other equipment at the Metairie training facility and take it to the Superdome for home games. “The only games that we don’t go to with our trucks would be New York and New England but we take equipment to the airport for each away game.” Driving to St. Louis and Chicago depends on the weather.

“When the plane returns, we meet it at a very specific time. It’s imperative we’re on time. So far we’ve been right on the money and everybody’s happy,” Fayard said.

That includes Fayard employees Kenny Wilson, Jasper Calvert and James Carter, who handle the Saints moves.

Wilson, who has worked for Fayard for 14 years, said he couldn’t believe his luck getting picked to drive the 24-foot truck assigned to the Saints gear.

“When my boss asked me about doing it

I said yes before he could get it out of his mouth. It’s like a dream come true.”

For a typical Sunday home game, Wilson said crews leave Gulfport around 6 a.m. on Saturday, move the gear to the stadium and come home. They return Sunday morning for the game and start repacking at halftime.

The moving crew watches the game from behind the players’ bench, right in the midst of the action and the crowd noise, said Wilson. “You can’t even hear yourself talk.

You’re just surrounded by noise.”

Wilson calls his wife, Frances, “the No. 1 Saints fan” and said she and their two daughters watch for him on TV at home games.

Wilson said, “It is a true blessing, knowing the Saints are your team and you are right there. I never thought I’d be there to do my part on the sideline and inside the locker room.”

Fayard’s son, Tripp, a lifelong Saints fan, dispatches and coordinates the equipment moving. “It’s a unique and exciting experience to feel like you’re part of the team and getting to know a lot of the players, the coaches and the equipment staff one on one,” he said.

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extra virgin olive oils come in basil, lemon, garlic, butter and Tuscan herb flavors, among others. Gourmet oils include black and white truffle flavors.

The shop will have a full tasting room so

customers can sample the extra virgin olive oils. “We will store all the products in 15liter stainless steel tanks and next to each one will be a little green sample bottle. Customers can pour a sample into a cup and ‘tip and sip’,” said Morgan.

Morgan said the shop also will sell several types of salts, pastas, pesto, jams and chocolates made with oils instead of milk.

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MCEE’s goal is teaching students financial literacy

By LYNN LOFTON I CONTRIBUTOR mbj@msbusiness.com

Teaching Mississippi students about money is a lofty goal, but since 2002 the Mississippi Council on Economic Education has been trying to do just that. This non-profit organization is a non-partisan educational entity founded to promote economic literacy in the state. The numbers show positive results as MCEE has trained 9,000 teachers who have in turn affected 900,000 students. It is funded by Mississippi businesses, foundations, the Mississippi Department of Education and state Institutions of Higher Learning.

“We are able to show significant levels of learning in all of our programs,” said Selena Swartzfager, MCEE president. “The MCEE’s mission is to meet the critical need of ensuring that K-12 schools and teachers provide our young people quality instruction in economics, entrepreneur-

ship and personal finance that is academically sound and non partisan.”

To that end, the MCEE provides resources and training to public and private teachers to empower them to teach students how economics relates to their lives as workers, citizens and consumers. “We envision all children demonstrating grade appropriate economic, entrepreneurial and financial literacy,” Swartzfager said. “We believe that all K-12 students need to learn grade-appropriate skills in economic and financial literacy as well as entrepreneurial skills.”

Overarching all work in implementing the mission is helping teachers reach their students. “Of paramount importance to the organization is integrity, fiscal soundness, good stewardship of the funding and believing in teachers and students enough to never give up on them,” the president added.

MCEE chairman of the board Cory Wilson notes that Mississippi’s rate of financial literacy is among the lowest in the

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Students from Biloxi High School won the Stock Market Game in 2013.

“We believe that all K-12 students need to learn grade-appropriate skills in economic and financial literacy as well as entrepreneurial skills.”

Selena Swartzfager MCEE president

nation. “That is a challenge because our citizens — old and young — need to know how economics impacts them,” he said.

“Whether they realize it or not, it’s a part of daily life; things such as budgeting, spending and career paths.

“And, our future depends particularly on teaching our kids about entrepreneurship, investing and what it takes to become tomorrow’s workers and business owners. MCEE helps to do that by making these concepts real for both teachers and students.”

Wilson, an attorney with the Heidelberg Steinberger Colmer & Burrow firm, became interested in the state’s fiscal adroitness while serving as the secretary of state’s chief of staff several years ago. “I saw firsthand the harm done by scams and the need for investor literacy,” he said. “When I left public service, I wanted to continue to engage with MCEE.” One of his favorite ways to serve MCEE is speaking to students around the state about economics and investor literacy. He volunteers to support programs, including

the MCEE economics challenge and the Stock Market Game, as well as meeting with teachers and seeing them in action.

Brooks Mosley, president of Security Ballew Wealth Management, also volunteers with MCEE because he believes one key to a successful workforce is employees who are good stewards of their own money and their employers’ money. “Students who are recipients of MCEE programming are much more likely to be good stewards of money versus those not exposed to the financial basics,” he said. “Further, economically literate students are more likely to complete a degree in higher education.

“MCEE cannot meet its mission without the involvement of schools, businesses and parents. The annual cost of operating MCEE is $700,000, of which 85 percent goes directly to programming for Mississippi teachers and students.”

Swartzfager, a master teacher of economics, is a strong believer in MCEE’s professional development for teachers, which See

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PROFILE

GJA pushes assets of whole region When it comes to selling points, the Greater Jackson Alliance members lay claim to an impressive list, according to Ross Tucker, the GJA director and its chief salesman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have the largest population base in the state. We have the most colleges and universities within our area. We have a highly educated workforce and a quality of life here. Those are the things we try to sell.â&#x20AC;?

Tucker, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been in the job for about 10 years, also touts the many pluses from the surrounding areas when he goes after industrial prospects and large employers such as call centers and health care facilities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can bring up the downtown redevelopment in Jackson and the shopping and housing in Madison County,â&#x20AC;? among other assets on his list.

The specific areas donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter to his prospects, Tucker said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where the county lines are. They just need to come in and take a look and I turn them over to the local development groups.â&#x20AC;?

GJA was established in 1994 with three counties to come up with a marketing plan to promote the Greater Jackson area, foster cooperation between the various governmental jurisdictions and push economic development efforts to benefit the region.

The Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership is GJAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fiscal agent and is the clearing-

house for inquiries from prospects. The non-profit Chamber Partnership is the leading economic and community development organization in the Metro Jackson Area, with 2,100 members. The organization has expanded over the years and in 2007 added Attala, Copiah, Leake, Simpson and Warren counties to its membership.

Tucker called the Greater Jackson Partnership â&#x20AC;&#x153;the private side to the Alliance, which is made up of all the public entities that do economic development.â&#x20AC;? The partnership and the Alliance members put up equal amounts of money the Alliance uses for marketing the region. The partnership oversees the marketing money and pays the staff salaries separately, Tucker said.

Members of the Greater Jackson Alliance are Claiborne County Economic Development District, Copiah County Economic Development District, Entergy Mississippi Inc., Hinds County Economic Development Authority, Jackson Municipal Airport Authority, Madison County Economic Development Authority, Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership, Rankin First Economic Development Au-

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Regional cooperation allows the sharing of resources...â&#x20AC;?

thority, Simpson County Development Foundation and the Vicksburg-Warren County Port Commission.

And GJA isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t finished growing yet.

Plans are to expand its coverage area within the central region of the state to add more assets and marketing clout.

Tucker works with its allies on the local, state and regional levels to bring new companies to the area and to help existing businesses expand. The Alliance takes part in trade shows and marketing trips with such partners as the Mississippi Development Authority to call attention to what the region has to offer. Tucker also works with prospects by hosting â&#x20AC;&#x153;fam toursâ&#x20AC;? of the region. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We go after the big employment base on the service side including health care and call centers and then high investment from the industrial side,â&#x20AC;? Tucker said. The Alliance also works with local chambers of commerce to attract retail by providing demographic information and other research.

Many involved in economic development believe the regional approach is the most effective way to successful market an area.

Wayne Mansfield, executive director of

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the Vicksburg-Warren County Economic Development Foundation, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Economic development, specifically, site selection for new projects, has evolved to place an emphasis on regional cooperation. There are several well known examples of this including Charlotte, N.C., Nashville, Tenn., and also here in Mississippi with the PUL Alliance (Pontotoc, Union and Lee counties) that cooperated to locate the Toyota facility, and the Columbus LINK that recently located the Yokohama Tire Plant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Regional cooperation allows the sharing of resources that individual communities may not have access to, such as developing labor force studies and marketing efforts. And with limited and shrinking budgets, this becomes critical.â&#x20AC;?

Mansfield said since Mississippi is a smaller state, regions often share the labor force. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is certainly true for Warren County as we have 6,000 people commuting to work here daily. By being a member of the Greater Jackson Alliance, we are able to concentrate our resources to be used totally for marketing this region.

Also, we have incredible support from the Alliance in terms of advocating and supporting our infrastructure development efforts in order to obtain needed funding from state and federal agencies.â&#x20AC;?

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14 I Mississippi Business Journal I November 29, 2013 ENGINEERING

Waggoner Engineering involved with many ‘game changer’ economic development projects in the state

By BECKY GILLETTE I CONTRIBUTOR mbj@msbusiness.com

Waggoner Engineering has played a major role in some of the largest economic development projects in the state.

“Waggoner has been really blessed with great opportunities to be involved with major projects that have served as ‘game-changers’ for Mississippi,” said Joe Waggoner, PE, PLS, chairman & CEO, Waggoner Engineering. “Two obvious projects with statewide impact are site and infrastructure development for both Nissan in Canton and the Blue Springs site for Toyota. A major project with incredible local impact, which we helped develop, was Highland Colony Parkway in south Madison County.”

Following Hurricane Katrina, Waggoner was hired by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to develop and implement a $650-million regional water and wastewater infrastructure throughout a five-county area.

“Today, that infrastructure represents a dependable, interconnected network of infrastructure to assure dependable service in the event of future storms,” Waggoner said. “Tomorrow, that infrastructure will represent untold opportunity for economic growth and development in the region.”

The company isn’t just about providing engineering expertise, but providing economic developer services to land projects large and small.

“We have realized the importance of having in-house capability to understand and serve the economic development community,” Waggoner said. “Our team has experienced economic development professionals on staff, and they are mentoring our young professionals so that we are thinking in different ways about our role, and helping our clients adjust to the new paradigm.”

Waggoner Engineering’s overarching philosophy is to better the communities served by helping municipalities identify needs, envision solutions and deliver results that are transformational.

“That is foundational in helping communities succeed attracting new business and economic vitality in challenging times and in good times, too,” he said. “We strive to provide clients with a one-stop shopping experience. That means from cradle to grave we want to have every tool and resource clients may need to realize successful projects.

From planners, economists, and grant writers to architects and even a couple of lawyers--in addition to engineers-our diverse staff of professionals delivers innovative solutions to client issues.”

Economic development is very competitive. Economic development professionals need technical expertise to support project development including identifying potential

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includes a number of courses. “Without the professional development provided to Mississippi economics teachers, our teachers would have no avenue for gaining the required knowledge of economics and the skills to teach the material well.”

Starkville High School teacher Ginger

sites, developing and implementing strategies for developing and marketing those sites, developing infrastructure, winning the selection process, and ultimately developing sites to meet the needs of the prospect.

“At Waggoner, we don’t view our role as showing up to ask for the design work,” Waggoner said. “We take a much more comprehensive approach. That means en- Arnold gaging with developers and officials on the front end to help provide planning, management, and technical expertise. Luring prospects is an extremely complex process, which requires leading-edge technical expertise to supplement local capabilities.”

It used to be that developers took a ‘build it and they will come’ approach.

That is not necessarily the case anymore.

Resources are scarce, and communities Waggoner often don’t have the means to fully develop an industrial park and service the capital debt on the infrastructure while awaiting the next big company to show up and provide jobs.

“A much more strategic approach is required today,” Waggoner said. “Financial resources must be carefully managed and infrastructure and sites carefully planned, often to meet the specific needs of a prospect, all which takes a tremendous amount of planning and technical knowledge. At the same time, developers can’t engage in economic development with nothing in hand. At minimum, they must have a portfolio of potential sites identified to show prospects and some preliminary engineering in hand to evaluate site and infrastructure costs, assess environmental conditions, and ensure the adequacy of water, gas, wastewater, and electricity capacities and requirements For all these reasons, it is important that a community have on board, in advance, an experienced consulting team with wide-ranging expertise, including economists, economic developers, geologists, engineers, surveyors, marketing experts, and GIS specialists experienced in the field of site development.”

Waggoner strives to provide clients with a ‘one stop shopping’ experience, understanding economic development and the pressures associated with quick turnarounds on prospect information and the need to be accessible at all times, said Hunter Arnold, PE, vice president of business development at Waggoner Engineering.

“Having been involved with numerous recruitment activities, the project managers of Waggoner are experts in this area and can deploy many resources and service professionals from the smallest recruitment activities to extremely

Tedder, the MCEE 2012 Economics Teacher of the Year, said, “The quality and variety of the professional development provided by the MCEE is transforming our state.

Through the knowledge gained from this training and programs, I am empowered to motivate and inspire my students and colleagues to better understand the importance of financial literacy and economic education.”

Murrah High School master teacher of economics Edward Schneider says the

large projects that are regional, national or global in scope,” Arnold said. “Perhaps the biggest challenge is to be ready ahead of time, which means dedicating the necessary resources, and having those essential conversations with community leaders.”

Beginning with the basics, economic development prospects are attracted to a trained workforce, affordable utilities, good transportation networks, solid education systems, business-friendly political climates, and an attractive quality of life. Arnold said Mississippi has made solid strides in each of those facets.

“In some areas, such as transportation, we are extremely strong, and in others we are still working to improve,” Arnold said. “Clearly, stricter environmental regulations are something we constantly consider, especially in larger metropolitan areas. Tightening regulations on air and water quality, particularly, are something we must always account for in the planning and development processes.”

Strong infrastructure systems are a critical edge in the economic development game, and while expensive, without consistent monitoring and improvement, inadequate infrastructure can be the first thing that destroys competitiveness.

“Time is of the essence,” Arnold said. “If you’re not ready with your data, sites and supporting materials, then projects will go elsewhere. Resources are a greater challenge to rural communities that don’t have the means to hire top talent.

For those resource-strapped communities, they have to know their strengths and leverage their talents. Once the prospect shows up to tour your area, it’s too late to begin developing materials and compiling information. You have to plan ahead.”

The competitive economic development environment and inventory of sites available today really make site location a buyer’s market. Prospects are looking for more than land, water, and a nearby highway. They can be very selective in where they locate, and that means developers must really focus on providing a complete package, Arnold said. Great infrastructure with a saturated workforce won’t cut it, nor will a great school system with sub-par infrastructure.

Arnold said development creates a snowball effect. Success breeds even more success.

Mississippi is well known for its authors, artists, musicians, and athletes. “But, we have a habit of losing many of our best and brightest minds to places like Atlanta, Houston, Nashville, and other metropolitan areas simply because many successful, smart kids don’t think there’s professional opportunity in Mississippi for them once they graduate college,” he said. “The only way to change that perspective is to generate economic success stories and give young people a reason to stay and thrive right here at home.”

biggest benefit for him is the relevancy of the training to the subject he teaches.

“I can take the lessons I learn at MCEE training sessions and apply them directly in the classroom. I believe that credibility with students goes a long way in being effective in teaching economic concepts.”

Beginning with the graduating class of 2012, economics is a required course for high school graduation in Mississippi.

Founders of MCEE were Gov. William

Winter and John T. Dillon, chairman and CEO of International Paper Company.

The organization was incorporated in 2002 with Dr. Ted Alexander elected chairman of the board. He filled this role until 2009 and remains a board member.

A permanent fund for economic and financial stability was named in his honor and has a goal of $1 million.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (TOP 20 PROJECTS) Entity

Type of project

Location

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Yokohama Tire Corporation

New

West Point

Tires

500

$300,000,000

KiOR

Expansion

Columbus

Biomass electric power generation

0

$225,000,000

Feuer Powertrain

New

Grenada

Automotive components

300

$140,000,000

Green Circle Bio Energy Inc.

New

Lucedale

Wood pellets

126

$115,000,000

Von Drehle Corporation

New

Natchez

Paper

100

$100,000,000

Nissan North America Inc.

Expansion

Canton

Vehicles

400

$50,000,000

Schulz Xtruded Products

New

Hernando

Steel pipes and tubes

70

$50,000,000

Gulf Coast Renewable Energy

New

Lucedale

Wood pellets

30

$40,000,000

Gulf Coast Renewable Energy

New

Copiah County

Wood pellets

40

$40,000,000

Helen of Troy

New

Olive Branch

Warehousing/storage

300

$37,000,000

Halter Marine Group Inc.

Expansion

Moss Point

Ships

400

$25,000,000

CertainTeed

Expansion

Meridian

Building products

110

$24,000,000

Port of Pascagoula

Expansion

Pascagoula

Shipping

0

$20,000,000

Delta State University

New

Cleveland

GRAMMY Museum

0

$18,000,000

Silver Slipper Casino

Expansion

Waveland

Gaming

0

$17,700,000

Singing River Hospital

Expansion

Pascagoula

Health care

0

$17,000,000

City of Biloxi

New

Biloxi

Minor league baseball stadium

0

$15,000,000

DeSoto County Administration Building New

Hernando

Government

0

$14,400,000

Enersteel

Expansion

Natchez

Pipe

20

$11,000,000

Natron Wood

New

Louisville

Softwood veneer/plywood

200

$10,000,000

Port of Pascagoula

New

Pascagoula

Shipping

0

$10,000,000

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Markets are improving for recycled materials

By BECKY GILLETTE I CONTRIBUTOR mbj@msbusiness.com

One difficulty with making a recycling program work is finding adequate buyers for the recyclable materials who will turn those into a new product. But markets for recyclables are improving with China purchasing a lot from the U.S. and major retailers such as Wal-Mart requiring their suppliers to recycle more.

“Wal-Mart has been a big player there,” said Mark Williams, administrator of the solid waste and recycling programs at the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). “Wal-Mart has a scorecard that rates manufacturers on the recyclability of the product, and the amount of recycled content in the product. CocaCola is another large company that has done a lot towards recycling. It helps to create markets.”

Waste reduction and recycling are also increasingly important to manufacturers.

For example, Toyota has a zero-waste initiative with the intention of no waste from manufacturing being sent to landfills.

PACCAR, which has a $400-million truck engine plant in Columbus, is another company with a major focus on recycling.

“Manufacturers are really looking for recycled materials and ways to avoid putting any waste in landfills,” Williams said. “Our state has to provide those kinds of recycling services to our manufacturing groups to be able to attract them. They are looking for places that can provide those services. As a state we have to take advantage of that by increasing collections of recycled materials in the state and building the recycling infrastructure so we can grow economically and reap the benefits of that environmentally, as well.”

The Southeast Recycling Development

Council is focused on improving recycling opportunities for manufacturers. The council helps educate legislators about the importance of the recycling industry.

“We are seeing success in states that have really invested in growing the recycling industry,” Williams said. “We hope Mississippi can take advantage of opportunities like that, as well.”

A major effort to grow the municipal recycling infrastructure in the state is the Mississippi Recycling Coalition, a group started in 1997 by MDEQ, Mississippi Beautiful, some of the larger recycling companies in the state, and the Mississippi Beverage Association.

“Those groups got together to form this consortium to have an independent voice that focused on municipal recycling,” Williams said. “It is an all-volunteer group. Virtually all of the states in the Southeast have similar type organizations.

MDEQ provides a lot of support to groups as part of the mission to promote recycling in the state.”

The Mississippi Recycling Coalition held its annual conference at the end of October, attracting 130 participants to hear programs such as a “pay as you throw” presentation. Pay as you throw charges for garbage disposal, but recycling is free.

“This is an incentive type program that can increase recycling,” Williams said. “The more you recycle, the less you pay. We don’t currently have a pay as you throw program in Mississippi, but we have had interest in the program and wanted communities to consider it as an option.”

Markets for recycled materials are improving after the recession that began in 2008 sent markets down. Export markets are continuing to grow. China and India purchase a lot of recyclables from the U.S. and other countries, as well.

“China has a growing economy, and we

“We are seeing success in states that have really invested in growing the recycling industry” Mark Williams Administrator of the solid waste and recycling programs at the MDEQ

are going to continue to see it be a strong recycling market,” Williams said. “The use of plastics and plastic recycling is growing.

The largest HDPE plant in the world, KW Plastics, is in Troy, Ala. The amount of HDPE they get from Alabama is only enough to run the plant for two days a year.

The bottom line is they need more plastics.”

Williams said it makes no sense to bury things in a landfill that can have manufacturing uses. Materials should be used over and over again rather than only once and then buried in the ground.

“We have to go out and collect that critical mass and help develop the recycling infrastructure in a state that has been very landfill based,” he said.

To help encourage that, MDEQ has a program providing a regional recycling cooperative grant to encourage local governments to work together to have joint programs. Like any business activity, recycling succeeds on more volume and quality.

“In Mississippi, that is difficult because the state is largely rural,” Williams said. “To get a critical mass of materials is difficult.

We try to spur local governments to work together on cooperative type efforts where they collect materials together, which provides better success for sustaining a recy-

cling program.”

The market for recycled glass in the U.S. is shrinking, and can make it difficult to find places to send glass for recycling.

“Glass markets are not very good,” Williams said. “Glass has been a tough market to grow. A lot of things influence that. Many folks are turning away from glass to plastics and other types of cartons to sell products. And glass is difficult to manage. If it gets into paper or plastics that are being recycled, it makes a mess. There is a safety problem for handlers. Glass can cut, and fibers can be inhaled. That said, there are markets for glass.”

Mississippi law requires local governments to have a strategy to reach the goal of recycling 25 percent of waste. But there are no penalties, so it can be difficult to get local government to implement strategies to recycle. Primarily that is done through solid waste management plans that must be filed with MDEQ. “Every community has to have that,” Williams said. “Most of the plans developed in the 1990s are 20-year plans that are coming to closure now. We are working with communities around the state to take that goal seriously when updating those plans.”

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18 I Mississippi Business Journal I November 29, 2013 CITIES AND TOWNS

Municipal recycling makes sense for the economy and the environment

By BECKY GILLETTE I CONTRIBUTOR mbj@msbusiness.com

Some cities say recycling is just too expensive and difficult, particularly to get a large enough percentage of households to participate to make the program cost effective. The City of Ridgeland, which for the second time in three years has been given the Local Government Recycler of the Year Award by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), has proven that doesn’t have to be true.

The City of Ridgeland partners with Recycle Bank in order to provide an incentive program for residents to recycle.

“They provide reward points each time the container is picked up,” said Ridgeland Public Works director Mike McCollum.

“These points are redeemed on the Recycle Bank website in the form of gift cards and discounts on everyday home items.

The city charges $70.20 per year to each curbside customer. The average point value per year is $160.00. That more than covers the cost to customers for recycling.

“We are also considering reducing our solid waste pickup from twice to one time per week, therefore reducing the cost for that service.”

McCollum recommends starting small with recycling drop off points, and then moving to a curbside program with incentives to reduce cost. Cities that are just starting out can benefit from a good advertisement campaign to ensure participation.

Ridgeland has 40 percent participation in its residential curbside recycling program. If the city decides to reduce the solid waste pickup to once per week, they expect that number to increase. Businesses recycle at two drop off points strategically located in the city.

McCollum recommends working with the MDEQ for assistance in capital cost and education. Also, find recycling champions in your community and assist them in fostering their passion for the program.

Recycling is a major commitment to building a more sustainable community, said Anne Marie Kornelis, recycling coordinator for the City of Greenwood.

“In Greenwood we have taken the steps to build a successful recycling program with long-range goals,” Kornelis said. “In terms of being a financially sustainable recycling program, one must consider not only the money the program makes from selling recyclables, but you also have to factor in the money saved by diverting recy-

“It is just a shame seeing people throwing things away that could be recycled.”

Eddie Fulton Mayor of Quitman

clable materials away from the landfill.”

That point is hammered home by Mayor Eddie Fulton of Quitman, a small town south of Meridian that has the state’s longest running municipal recycling program. The mayor takes time each year to visit with children from the elementary school about recycling. He plays a money game where he gives $2 in change to a nonrecycling student and $2 to a recycling student. The student representing a recycler gets paid for the garbage she recycles while the student who throws it away has to pay.

The recycler ends up with more money, and the non-recycler with less.

“The kids love the game, and it gets the point across,” Fulton said. “The kids are the key to it. They go home and tell their parents they have to recycle.”

Fulton tells the students that worms enjoy cardboard, but don’t like plastic, which is made with oil. Plastic in the land-

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Mayor Gene F. McGee, City of Ridgeland; Trudy Fisher, director, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ); and Mike McCollum, Public Works director, City of Ridgeland are pictured at the 2011 MDEQ banquet when the City of Ridgeland was accepted into MDEQ’s enHance Program.

Ridgeland was the first city to be named an enHance member for their environmental stewardship efforts.

fill doesn’t degrade for hundreds of years.

“It is just a shame to see people throwing things away that could be recycled,” he said. “And it costs more money. Obviously there is a lot more benefit to selling cardboard for $150 a ton rather than putting it in the ground for $34 a ton. Sixty percent of the garbage we throw away could be recycled. It breaks my heart that people don’t take the time.

“The MDEQ has been a strong supporter of ours. Each household gets a bin, which has made it a lot easier for them to recycle. Our county has a lot of good fishing and hunting. We have the pristine Chickasawhay River, and the 454-acre Lake Archusa in town. It is a shame to not recycle when you have these kind of natural assets.”

Quitman’s program started in the early 1990s, and really took off in the late 1990s with every manufacturer in town recycling their cardboard. Cardboard currently brings in about $150 per ton. In 2010 when the town’s largest employer, Dart Containers, which makes foam cups for fast food, decided to recycle their cardboard themselves, it cost the city’s recycling pro-

gram about $10,000 in income, reducing them from $30,000 to $20,000 per year.

But Fulton said increasing participation means they are now headed back up to $30,000 in revenue.

After paying expenses, Quitman doesn’t make money on the program. But it has been enough in the black to purchase a new garbage truck. Fulton said if he could get a 70 percent participation rate, the program would pay for itself completely. He also favors drop off locations for rural people to recycle.

“People in the county want to start recycling,” he said. “There are a lot of people who care about recycling.”

Fulton gives a lot of credit for the success of the program to Andy Reese, who is street superintendent and in charge of garbage and recycling.

“Andy comes up with ingenious ideas,” Fulton said. “The next thing we are going to do is apply for a grant to get big tubs to do composting. Right now we put leaves in the landfill. With these tubs, we will keep the leaves and other yard waste out of the landfill and turn them into a valuable product.”

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Ridgeland

H.C. Bailey

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25th Naval Construction Regiment Headquarters Facility

Gulfport

PWD

Gold

AERC, PLLC

Hernando

Arcadian Investments, LLC

Gold

Administrative Office Building

Brandon

Rankin County School District

Gold

Crossroads Distribution Building A

Olive Branch

IDI Inc.

Silver

Emergency Operations Center-Stennis Space Center

Hancock County

NASA

Gold

Environmental Laboratory Office Building

Vicksburg

N/A

Gold

Grand Bay Visitors Center

Moss Point

Grand Bay National Estuarine Research

Gold

Guild Hardy Architects office

Biloxi

Magnolia Administration Building

Ashland

NASA Shared Services Center-Stennis Space Center

Hancock County

NOAA Fisheries Mississippi Laboratories

Pascagoula

North Mississippi Medical Center-Pulmonary Consultants

Maverick, LLC

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InterGen

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State of Mississippi-Bureau of Building

Silver

N/A

Gold

Tupelo

North Mississippi Medical Center

Silver

One Main Financial

Corinth

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One Main Financial

Magee

N/A

Certified

One Main Financial

Southaven

N/A

Certified

Pi Beta Phi

Mississippi State University

MW Builders Inc.

Certified

Regions Corporate Real Estate

Ridgeland

Regions Bank

Retail (3889 Promenade Parkway)

D'Iberville

N/A

Southern Thunder Harley-Davidson

Southaven

Southern Thunder Harley-Davidson

Silver

The Pinnacle at Jackson Place

Jackson

Parkway Properties Inc.

Gold

Yates Building Supply

Philadelphia

The Yates Companies

Gold

Yates Headquarters

Philadelphia

The Yates Companies

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Phone

Aberdeen Recyclers

533 Hwy. 145 N., Aberdeen, MS 39730-5555

(662) 369-7429

Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority/City of Aberdeen

N/A, Aberdeen, MS N/A

(662) 369-2881

Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority/City of Amory

P.O. Box 457, Amory, MS 38821

(662) 256-3032

City of Bay St. Louis - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 2550, Bay St. Louis, MS 39521-2550

(228) 467-2724

Southern All Metals Recycling Inc.

P.O. Box 3105, Bay St. Louis 39521-3105

(228) 467-5704

Nelson's Metals

P.O. Box 63, Belmont, MS 38827-0063

(662) 454-7500

City of Biloxi - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 429, Biloxi, MS 39533-0429

(228) 435-6271

David Scrap Company

12360 Hickman Rd., Biloxi, MS 39532

(228) 392-6070

Southern Antifreeze Recycling Inc.

14094 Woodland Hills Dr., Biloxi, MS 39532

(228) 396-3177

City of Brandon - Recycling Program

201 N. College St., Brandon, MS 39042

(601) 824-4571

Gold Coast Commodities

817 N. College St., Brandon, MS 39042

(601) 825-2508

McKenzie Metals

979 Saw Mill Ln. NE, Brookhaven, MS 39601

(601) 835-1357

Southern Recycling

913 Saw Mill Ln. NE, Brookhaven, MS 39601

(601) 835-1622

Mississippi Distributors Inc.

P.O. Box 764, Clarksdale, MS 38614-0764

(662) 624-4010

Brown Brothers Scrap Metal Inc.

423 Central Ave., Cleveland, MS 38732

(662) 843-5741

City of Cleveland

P.O. Box 1439, Cleveland, MS 38732-1439

(662) 843-5365

Birdsong Construction Company

P.O. Box 2235, Clinton, MS 39060

(601) 922-9292

City of Clinton - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 156, Clinton, MS 39060-0156

(601) 924-2339

Treesaver Inc.

4591 Sycamore Rd., Coldwater, MS 38618

(662) 233-0103

Jones Brothers

2438 Hwy. 98, Columbia, MS 39429

(601) 736-6048

City of Columbus-Drop-off Recycling Program

P.O. Box 1408, Columbus, MS 39703

(662) 329-5346

Columbus- Lowndes Environmental and Recycling OfďŹ ce

P.O. Box 1408, Columbus, MS 39703

(662) 329-5346

Columbus Scrap Materials Co.

P.O. Box 8670, Columbus, MS 39701

(662) 328-8176

City of Corinth

P.O. Box 669, Corinth, MS 38834-0669

(662) 286-8144

Vanderford Scrap Metal

369A CR 510, Corinth, MS 38834

(662) 286-8528

City of D'Iberville - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 6519, D'Iberville, MS 39540-6519

(228) 392-7966

M-D Metals

7974 Decatur-Conehatta Rd., Decatur, MS 39327

(601) 635-4160

Koestler Pallet Sales Inc.

P.O. Box 162, Edwards, MS 39066-0162

(601) 852-2926

Morris Brothers Metals Inc.

81 Morris Rd., Elliot, MS 38925

(662) 226-8340

L&L Scrap Metal

5469 Hwy. 11 N, Ellisville, MS 39437

(601) 649-5749

Strategic Materials

1350 Flowood Dr., Flowood, MS 39232

(601) 932-5000

McWilliams Scrap Metals

737 W. George St., Forest, MS 39074

(601) 469-4221

Foxworth Scrap

68 Hwy. 35 Service Rd., Foxworth, MS 39483

(601) 731-1256

J.W. Sandifer Car Crushers Inc.

1818 Hwy. 98 W., Foxworth, MS 39483

(601) 736-1553

Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority/City of Fulton

213 W. Wiygul St., Fulton, MS 38843

(662) 862-9616

Fulton Metals Recycling

295 Chamblee Rd., Fulton, MS 38843

(662) 862-7167

Applewhite Recycling Systems, LLC

P.O. Box 696, Gautier, MS 39553-0696

(228) 497-4130

City of Greenville - Drop-off Recycling Program

P.O. Box 897, Greenville, MS 38702

(662) 378-1538

Greenville Iron & Metal, LLC

2645 Harbor Front Rd., Greenville, MS 38701

(662) 332-1234

Greenville Recycling Center

P.O. Box 4595, Greenville, MS 38704-4595

(662) 335-6668

Morris Brothers Metals Inc.

405 8th St., Greenwood, MS 38930-4595

(662) 455-2540

A-1 Battery Distributors

3220 A Ave., Gulfport, MS 39507

(228) 868-6482

City of Gulfport - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 2409, Gulfport, MS 39505-2409

(228) 868-8752

City of Long Beach - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 2409, Long Beach, MS 39505-2409

(228) 868-8752

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City of Pass Christian - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 2409, Gulfport, MS 39505-2409

(228) 868-8752

Gulf Coast Glycol, LLC

11298 Reichold Rd., Gulfport, MS 39503

Harrison County - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 2409, Gulfport, MS 39505-2409

(228) 868-8752

Southern Scrap Recycling

P.O. Box 2365, Gulfport, MS 39505-2365

(228) 896-9094

Wise Recycling Company

3731 25th Ave., Gulfport, MS 39501

Ben Shemper & Sons Inc.

P.O. Box 466, Hattiesburg, MS 39403-0466

(601) 544-6100

City of Hattiesburg - Drop-off Recycling Program

P.O. Box 1898, Hattiesburg, MS 39403

(601) 545-4667

South Mississippi Recycling

603 E. Front St., Hattiesburg, MS 39401

(601) 545-7365

USM Recycling Program

P.O. Box 5058, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5058

(601) 266-4414

DeSoto County Recycling Program

365 Losher St., Ste. 330, Hernando, MS 38632

(662) 429-5593

Iuka Recycling

P.O. Box 365, Iuka, MS 38852-0365, Iuka, MS 38852-0365

(662) 423-9961

A-1 Pallet Company Inc.

P.O. Box 23278, Jackson, MS 39225-3278

(601) 352-0586

ABC Pallets

1623 S. Gallatin St., Jackson, MS 39201

(601) 355-0784

Atlantic Industrial Services Inc.

990 Commerce St., Jackson, MS 39225

(800) 256-9900

Cash for Cans

4106 Medgar Evers Blvd., Jackson, MS 39201

(601) 362-4517

City of Jackson - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 17, Jackson, MS 39205-0017

(601) 960-1193

City of Jackson - Drop-off Recycling Program

P.O. Box 17, Jackson, MS 39205-0017

(601) 960-1193

City of Jackson - Environmental Service Center

P.O. Box 17, Jackson, MS 39205-0017

(601) 960-1193

Enviromax

P.O. Box 2134, Jackson, MS 39289

(601) 941-8099

Express Pack & Parcel

6069 Old Canton Rd., Jackson, MS 39211

(601) 957-5858

Griffin Industries Inc.

1299 Prisock Rd., Jackson, Ms 39212

(601) 372-5212

Metal Processors Inc.

P.O. Box 23309, Jackson, MS 39225

(601) 969-2871

Pack and Parcel Plus

665 Duling Ave., Jackson, MS 39218

(601) 982-7547

Proler Steel Works

121 Apache Rd., Jackson, MS 39272

(601) 372-4320

Recycle America Alliance

841 Palmyra St., Jackson, MS 39203

(601) 354-1749

The Can Man

1819 Valley St., Jackson, MS 39204

(601) 355-5777

Tire Technology Inc.

2911 Hwy. 80 W., Jackson, MS 39204

Tri-Miss Recycling Servives

416 W. Woodrow Wilson, Jackson, MS 39213

(601) 352-5027

City of Kosciusko

222 E. Washington St., Kosciusko, MS 39090

(662) 289-1226

Morris Brothers Metals Inc.

P.O. Box 128, Kosciusko, MS 39090-0128

(662) 289-3851

Laurel Junk and Salvage Co.

315 E. 15th St., Laurel, MS 39440

(601) 426-3721

City of Lucedale - Recycling Drop-off Program

5126 Main St., Lucedale, MS 39452

(601) 947-2082

City of Madison - Curbside Recycling Program

525 Post Oak Rd., Madison, MS 39110-9399

(601) 856-8958

Douglas Waste Paper

1720 Hwy. 178, Mantachie, MS 38855

(662) 862-7844

Andrews Metal Inc.

304 Summit St., McComb, MS 39648

(601) 684-2941

Atlas Roofing Corp.

2322 Valley Rd., Meridian, MS 39307

(601) 483-7111

City of McComb

P.O. Box 667, MComb, MS 39649-0667

(601) 684-3497

McComb Metal & Recycling

Hwy. 98 W., Box 874, McComb, MS 39648

(601) 684-7860

McComb recycling Center

715 S. Broadway, McComb, MS 39648

(601) 684-5351

City of Meridian - Curbside Recycling Program

311 27th Ave., Meridian, MS 39301

(601) 485-1970

Queen City Recycling

503 E St., Meridian, MS 39301

(601) 485-8688

Southern Scrap of Meridian, LLC

P.O. Box 1636, Meridian, MS 39302-1636

(601) 693-5323

Safety Kleen

3536 Fite Rd., Millington, MS 38053

(901) 357-3600

S&S Auto Salvage Sales Inc.

1356 Hwy. 80, Morton, MS 39117

(601) 732-8090

N/A

(228) 863-7413

(601) 949-6900

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City of New Albany - Drop-off Recycling Program

P.O. Box 56, New Albany, MS 38652

(662) 534-1010

JCC Environmental Inc.

P.O. Box 769, Nicholson, MS 39463-0769

(601) 798-1629

City of Ocean Springs - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 1800, Ocean Springs, MS 39564

(228) 875-6722

Owen sScrap Metal/Pascagoula Scrap Inc.

10820 Tucker Rd., Ocean Springs, MS 39565-9303

(228) 392-6158

City of Olive Branch - Curbside Recycling Program

9189 Pigeon Roost Rd., Olive Branch 38654

(662) 895-4000

Quality Rubber Company Inc.

P.O. Box 517, Olive Branch, MS 38654-0517

(662) 895-7861

City of Oxford - Drop-off Recycling Program

107 Courthouse Sq., Oxford, MS 38655

(662) 232-2745

Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority/Oxford-Lafayette Recycling

107 Courthouse Sq., Oxford, MS 38655

(662) 232-2745

City of Pascagoula - Drop-off Recycling Program

P.O. Drawer 908, Pascagoula, MS 39568

(228) 938-6257

AmeriGas

1684 Hwy. 80 E., Pearl, MS 39208

Bobby Singleton Recycling

118 Berry Dr., Pearl, MS 39208

C&D Recycling

106 Christopher St., Picayune, MS 39466

Picayune Industries

1401 Sixth Ave., Picayune, MS 39466

(601) 798-1629

Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority/Calhoun County

P.O. Box 36, Pittsboro, MS 38951

(662) 412-3137

Northeast Metal Processors

P.O. Box 508, Plantersville, MS 38862-0508

(662) 844-2164

Plantersville Recycling Program

P.O. Box 507, Plantersville, MS 38862

(662) 844-2012

Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority

P.O. Box 690, Pontotoc, MS 38863

(662) 489-2415

Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority/City of Pontotoc

116 N. Main St., Pontotoc, MS 38863

(662) 489-4321

City of Quitman - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 16, Quitman, MS 39355-0016

(601) 776-3728

City of Ridgeland - Curbside Recycling Program

P.O. Box 217, Rudgeland, MS 39158

(601) 853-2027

Interstate Batteries

243 Hwy. 51, Ridgeland, MS 39157

(601) 898-1200

Community Recycling Inc.

520 Walnut St., Rolling Fork, MS 39159

(662) 828-3779

Mac's Tire Recyclers Inc.

P.O. Box 1025, Saltillo, MS 38866-1025

(662) 869-1860

Sistrunk Pallets Inc.

P.O. Box 169, Sebastopol, MS 39359-0169

(601) 625-8652

Morris Scrap Metal Inc.

P.O. Box 460, Sherman, MS 38869-0460

(662) 844-6441

City of Southaven - Drop-off Recycling Program

8710 NW Dr., Southaven, MS 38671

(662) 393-4639

City of Starkville - Drop-off Recycling Program

101 Lampkin St., Starkville, MS 39759

(662) 323-4609

Starkville Recycling Services Inc.

211 C.C. Clark Rd., Starkville, MS 39759

(662) 324-0930

Sumrall Recycling Service Inc.

175 Todd Rd., Sumrall, MS 39482

(601) 758-0378

Aluminum Can Buyers of Tupelo

511 1/2 S. Spring St., Tupelo, MS 38801

(662) 844-0615

City of Tupelo - Drop-off Recycling Program

71 E. Troy St., Tupelo, MS 38802

(662) 841-6510

Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority/Lee County

P.O. Box 1785, Tupelo, MS 38802

(662) 841-0378

Tupelo Scrap Corp.

2337 S. Veterans Blvd., Tupelo, MS 38804

(662) 842-7452

BFI Waste Services, LLC

14500 Arrmein Rd., Vancleave, MS 39565

(228) 392-3388

MIDD West Industries

100 Smokey Ln., Vicksburg, MS 39180

(601) 638-2761

Poly Vulc Inc.

1645 Haining Rd., Vicksburg, MS 39180

(601) 638-8040

Vicksburg Recycling

1931 N. Washington St., Vicksburg, MS 39180

(601) 631-6978

City of Waynesboro

N/A, Waynesboro, MS 39367

(601) 735-4874

Wayne County Recycling

609 Azalea Dr., Waynesboro, MS 39367

(601) 735-6276

Morris Recycling Inc.

P.O. Box 997, West Point, MS 39773-0997

(662) 494-2275

Allen Paper Processor

708 Filmre St., Yazoo City, MS 39194

(662) 746-1120

City of Yazoo City - Drop-off Recycling Program

P.O. Box 689, Yazoo City, MS 39194

(662) 746-4743

Yazoo Steel & Supply Company

645 E. 12th St., Yazoo City, MS 39194

(662) 746-7453

Source: Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. Only Mississippi-based companies listed. In alphabetical order by city. Please direct questions or comments to Wally Northway at research@msbusiness.com.

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NEWSMAKERS

November 29, 2013

Profiles of growing young professionals in Mississippi

Keeping our eye on... SOPHIE McNEIL WOLF Sophie McNeil Wolf says she has wanted to be a writer since she was a little girl.

“My godmother used to always say that I had to be the first to know it and the first to tell it,” Wolf says. “I've always been interested in people and their stories. I'm a creative person that's always been drawn to pictures, video, and other types of media.”

As the marketing coordinator for Millsaps College in Jackson, Wolf handles official photography, social media, general advertising, special projects and copy writing assignments for the college.

“There are so many great stories to tell at Millsaps. From lectures to performances, great faculty and students — Millsaps is very unique in the heart of Jackson. We also have a very strong business school, which is a powerful combination with the liberal arts experience.”

The Madison native earned a journalism degree from the Univer-

sity of Southern Mississippi and has previously worked for the Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau and several local and national publications including the Dow Jones News Group.

In addition to her work in higher education, Wolf and her husband operate “Find It In Fondren” a community magazine highlighting new dining, entertainment and small business stories in the Jackson neighborhood. In her spare time, Wolf enjoys cooking, crafts, and furniture shopping and is an active member of Broadmeadow United Methodist Church.

Wolf advises young professionals to sign up for as many internships as possible, especially while still in school. “Networking, making contacts, and building your portfolio before you get out in the workplace is a must these days.”

— By Stephen McDill

MVSU chooses Gibson

Hale made director

Gilbert joins CPSD

Mississippi Valley State University has appointed Dr. Jacqueline Gibson as vice president of student affairs. A native of Morgan City, Gibson is a 15-year higher education professional.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 1991 from Mississippi Valley State University. In the fall of 1991, she entered the University of Akron in Ohio and completed a master’s degree in communication and a Ph.D. in Gibson higher education in 1998.

Gibson began her career teaching English, speech and communication courses at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Ga. In 2000, Gibson transitioned to Georgia State University’s Department of Communication to teach and later accept the position of director of the McNair Program in the Office of Educational Opportunity and TRIO Programs, which she held until October 2006. Afterward, she accepted the position of director of the Learning Resource Center at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. After just one and a half years, she was promoted to director of the Office of Student Life and Development and received the New Professional of the Year Award for 2007-2008. In 2008, she was promoted to dean of students, and she served the students of Lincoln University in the position from 20082012. Recently, Gibson served the students of Kentucky State University as assistant vice president of student engagement and leadership development.

An advocate for students, Gibson has dedicated her career to serving students and is passionate about the educational advancement of first generation, low income, and underrepresented students. As a result, she has been involved in community projects such as Hands on Atlanta and Into the Streets, tutorial and enrichment services at McNair Middle School, volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club and serving as mentor to disadvantaged and at-risk teenagers.

Ruth Ann Hale, APR has been named director of development and public relations for The Baddour Center. Hale was most recently director of media and community relations at Methodist Healthcare for nearly 19 years.

She holds a bachelor of arts Hale degree in journalism from the University of Memphis and is accredited in public relations by the Public Relations Society of America.

Veteran educator and National Education Association board member Kevin Gilbert has joined the Clinton Public School District administrative team. Gilbert currently serves as coordinator of teacher leadership and special projects at CPSD. Gilbert is one of nine members of the NEA executive committee and a past-president of the Mississippi Association of Educators. He began his educa- Gilbert tion career as a Mississippi studies and world geography teacher and coach at Sumner Hill Junior High from 1996-98 and then moved to Northwest Rankin High School as a Mississippi studies and economics teacher and head basketball coach from 1998-2000. He then taught world geography and Mississippi studies at Sumner Hill Junior High, and coached boys basketball, football and boys and girls track from 2000-2004. He was hired as assistant principal of Carver Middle School in Hinds County in 2004, and the next school year he returned to Clinton to serve as assistant principal at Clinton High School. His educational experience includes bus driving while working in Rankin County and substitute teaching with the Jackson Public Schools.

Gilbert holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science from the University of Southern Mississippi and an education specialist degree from Mississippi College. He is a member of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Association of Secondary School Principals and Phi Delta Kappa.

Farmer takes award Park Ranger Jane Farmer from Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi is the 2013 recipient of the National Park Service’s Freeman Tilden Award for interpretive excellence. The honor recognizes Farmer for her role in connecting American Indian students to their ancestral homelands in the park.

Pittman elected president Dustin Pittman, PE, of Waggoner Engineering has been elected president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Mississippi section. Pittman has been very active in both the Jackson branch and state sections of ASCE. He has served as young member chair and president-elect of the Mississippi section, and young member chair, treasurer, vice president and president of the Jackson branch.

As project manager for Waggoner, Pittman has been responsible for various engineering projects, including structures, grading plans, parking lots, storm water runoff/drainage and infrastructure. Prior to joining the Waggoner team in 2007, he worked with PPG Industries in Lake Charles, La., and Ergon Refining in Vicksburg.

USM chooses personnel In an effort to create better synergy, while strengthening the overall administrative structure, the School of Human Performance and Recreation at the University of Southern Mississippi has instituted a significant reorganization plan. Under the new restructuring, the school will include three assistant directors, three administrative assistants and a coordinator of student services.

Those assuming the roles of assistant directors and their areas of responsibility include: Dr. Nancy Speed, student success; Dr. Gary Krebs, curriculum and assessment; and Dr. Scott Piland, faculty development and research promotion.

Moore wins honors Dr. Ann Moore recently received two honors from her peers in the counseling profession. Moore, director of the Counseling, Advisement and Placement Center at Pearl River Community College, received the College Counselor of the Year Award from the Pine Belt Counseling Association, a division of the Mississippi Counseling Association.

The MCA presented Moore with an award for “excellence in Moore counseling, authenticity, com-

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Age: 25 Marketing Coordinator, Millsaps College Best thing about Mississippi: “The people and their stories. There's nothing like our Mississippians.”

Best Mississippi event: Zippity Doo Dah Weekend in Fondren Favorite hangout spots: Sneaky Beans in Fondren Heroes or mentors: “I had some incredible teachers along the way. Jamie Dickson, my creative writing teacher at Madison Central (High School), really helped me get outside the box with my writing.”

First job ever: Barista at Seattle Drip in Ridgeland Favorite Mississippi food: Hashbrown casserole Favorite TV show: “Monumental Mysteries” Favorite movie: “Lincoln” Favorite music: The Civil Wars Twitter handle: @sophiemwolf

passion and advocacy” for her work in the Mississippi Community/Junior College Counseling Association.

Moore is a member of numerous professional organizations and currently is president of the MCJCA. She is a past president of the Mississippi Vocational Counselors’ Association and past secretary/treasurer and vice president of the MCJCA. Moore has been at PRCC for 34 years after three years as an elementary school counselor and psychometrist with the Lamar County School District. She was PRCC’s career-tech counselor from 1980 through 2007 when she was named to her current position.

Arrington named trustee Amy Arrington has been appointed to a seat on the board of trustees for Forrest General Hospital. Arrington will serve out the unexpired term of former trustee Brad Brian, whose resignation was effective at the end of October.

Arrington is a lawyer focusing on issues affecting health care organizations.

Newspaper brings in Schumacher Jeff Schumacher has been named publisher of The Vicksburg Post and affiliated publications and president of Vicksburg Newsmedia, LLC. Schumacher, a native of Drayton, N.D., most recently was general manager of Mountaineer Publishing Co. in Waynesville, N.C. Schumacher attended Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minn., and North Dakota State University in Fargo, majoring in mass communication. His first newspaper job was as sports editor and sales executive for DAK Publishing in Dickinson, N.D. Schumacher led groups of newspapers in North Dakota and South Dakota as publisher and regional director for Kelly Publishing Inc. and Dickson Media. He also served as general manager of The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer newspaper for nearly three years.

Schumacher and his wife, Michelle, have four children. They will relocate to Vicksburg in the spring at the completion of the school year.

For announcements in Newsmakers; Contact: Wally Northway (601) 364-1016 • wally.northway@msbusiness.com

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LEED supporters and timber industry square off for recognition

By LYNN LOFTON I CONTRIBUTOR mbj@msbusiness.com

To LEED or not to LEED? That’s the question being waged by several groups in Mississippi and elsewhere. The U.S. Green Building Council developed LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) as a building standard to make structures healthier and more energy efficient.

The certification has been embraced by architects and many in the construction industry. However, the Mississippi Forestry Association, representing 3,000 members and an $11-billion state industry, does not think LEED is such a great idea. The MFA’s executive vice president Tedrick Ratcliff says it’s because the Green Building Council doesn’t recognize all accredited certification systems. “It unfairly disadvantages Mississippi forestry owners,” he said.

“We have asked them to recognize other

“What if restaurants chose the cheapest possible ingredients for their food? Would that make us happy?”

Jeff Seabold Architect

standards and don’t think they should pick winners and losers. We feel wood products are more environmentally friendly than some of the products they choose.”

Jackson architect Jeff Seabold says LEED buildings are healthier, higher-performing buildings than the ones simply built to code.

“They (LEED structures) are evaluated and rated by a third-party entity to certify their claims and performance,” he said. “Building

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“What if restaurants only chose the cheapest possible ingredients for their food? Would that make us happy?”

He points out that we all spend about 90 percent of our lives in buildings and should want better, healthier buildings that cost less to operate. “I can give you a thousand other reasons why LEED is good, such as pointing out the LEED school projects that have shown higher test scores for students in those schools with their enhanced daylight and better acoustics,” Seabold said.

“They save on average about $100,000 a year to operate in direct and indirect savings. Why would we not want to look at that for our kids? Why does it make sense to ban this?”

Seabold says the efforts of the timber industry lobby led by Sen. Roger Wicker (RMiss.) would ban use of LEED in many projects that use federal funds. He and others who support LEED see this legislation as an attempt by trade groups representing their products. “I wish they could look at this as an opportunity to develop and strengthen local economies of all markets,” he said. “There is an option here to support local materials and goods, but instead the timber industry has adopted a strategy of just saying LEED is bad because of a certification standard they use to benchmark successful sustainable forests.

They have told me that because the rating system doesn’t accept the Sustainable Forestry Initiative as a certification the implications is that SFI is bad.”

Ratcliff says the Forestry Association did not go to Sen. Wicker seeking his help. “He sits on a committee with responsibility for infrastructure funding and is encouraging them to look at alternatives,” he said. “He has been a champion for that and has always supported forestry.

Every time something is built and has to use products other than wood, it hurts the timber industry economically.”

The timber industry, Ratcliff says, ac-

knowledges the Green Globes building certification system and several others.

“The American National Standards Institute gives third-party certification whereas LEED isn’t a true consensus third-party certification, although they may have some components that are.”

He adds that a lot of wood goes into buildings, and that it’s a renewable resource — probably the only one that is — and that the manufacturing of wood products gives off less greenhouse gases than many products used in LEED certification.

Seabold says less than one percent of commercial buildings have wood products.

“I suggested co-authoring a bill that would ignore the wood credit and require public projects to use more local products, including wood,” Seabold said. “They were not interested in supporting that idea.”

In Mississippi, there are 2.1 million acres certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and about two million acres in the American Tree Farm System that’s made up of 4,000 landowners. These certification standards are recognized internationally.

The Forestry Stewardship Council has certified 600,000 acres. Ratcliff says those certifications account for 75 percent of all acreage in the state. “All are good certification systems and fit different landowners,” he said. “We have no preference but want all to be recognized. In Mississippi, state buildings can not be constructed that don’t recognize all systems. We’re glad the state legislature recognized that 120,000 people are employed in forestry in Mississippi.”

He says his industry will continue to request that the U.S. Green Building Council recognize all systems.

Seabold, who is active with the state chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, says supporters of LEED will also continue to promote this building standard. “Really if you boil it down to a word, it’s all about responsibility. LEED buildings are more responsible than their counterparts that aren’t. We all need to be more responsible.”

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» MISSISSIPPI LEADERS by Martin Willoughby

Creating success Pickering keeps grows Musee Bath while keeping an eye on the community

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n 2001, John Howkins in his book The Creative Economy helped bring to the public’s attention a new global movement.

He notes, “New ideas, not money or machinery, are the source of success today, and the greatest source of personal satisfaction, too. The creative economy is revitalizing manufacturing, services, retailing and entertainment industries. It is changing where people want to live, work and learn — where they think, invent and produce.”

As a student of entrepreneurship, I am excited about the opportunities that the creative economy creates. I believe this trend provides an incredible opportunity for Mississippi. The state has an incredible amount of creative talent that can be utilized both in communities and the world.

Leisha Pickering is a great example of a creative economy entrepreneur. She is leveraging her creative talents to make a difference through her new company Musee Bath Inc., which produces natural bath balms.

Pickering is a native of Memphis, Tenn., and an Ole Miss graduate. I believe great businesses start with a “why.” By this, I mean that the founder(s) have a clear purpose for the business and are passionate about bringing their product or service to the marketplace to help others.

Pickering shared with me some of her motivations for launching her new business.

Her mantra in this phase of life is “social entrepreneurship” — finding unique ways to address the needs of the community through creativity. Musee helped her do just that. She noted, “I believe everyone is called to make a difference wherever you are in life.

I have always had an interest in poverty both home and abroad.” She noticed a need for job creation in the Flora area, and she felt led to make a difference in her community.

Pickering explained, “I consider Musee to be a cottage business — a small company with grass roots in a kitchen with the employment of local people.” She understands that work creates dignity and seeks to give people that opportunity.

Being a creative economy entrepreneur comes naturally to Pickering. She said, “I have always been creative. When I was young, I wanted to become a writer of children’s books.” I believe in the power of questions. In my executive coaching practice, I use questions to help people clarify their path and focus. Pickering asked herself some powerful questions to develop her own path. She noted, “As you grow older, you must ask yourself questions. Some of these questions are: Where will my creative gift and passion take me as a career — what

Up Close With ... Leisha Pickering Title: Founder and CEO of Musee Bath Inc. Favorite Books: Same Kind of Different as Me (Ron Hall); Ragamuffin Gospel (Brennan Manning); “I am also a big fan of the writings of C.S. Lewis especially The Chronicles of Narnia.”

First Job: ”Like many young girls, my first job was babysitting.”

Proudest Moment as a Leader: ”Helping with the recovery of Hurricane Katrina.”

Hobbies/Interests: ”Traveling — I have a heart for Africa. Reading. Working with my hands — weaving, working with clay, writing,. Good conversations — I would rather talk to one person for 100 minutes than 100 people for 1 minute. Learning.”

is your natural giftedness and your passion?

How can you take your passion and use it alongside your natural God-given gifts.”

From Mother Teresa to Chuck Colson, Pickering is inspired by great leaders who are motivated by a desire to serve others.

For future leaders, Pickering encourages them to have a vision for what you are passionate about and act on it. In a world where we can easily get caught up living someone

“I believe everyone is called to make a difference wherever you are in life.”

Leisha Pickering Musee Bath Inc.

else’s vision for our lives, she encourages leaders to “be authentic, be yourself.” She strongly believes in the value of doing the right thing the right way and the importance of a life of servant hood. From serving the poorest of the poor in Africa to focusing on helping others in her local community, Pickering is a great model of creativity and servant hood in action. I hope that many more Mississippians will leverage their time, talents, and energy to change the world one small piece at a time for the better by unleashing their creative talents.

Martin Willoughby is a business consultant and regular contributing columnist for the Mississippi Business Journal. He serves as Chief Operating Officer of Butler Snow Advisory Services, LLC and can be reached at martin.willoughby@ butlersnow.com.

This short story master delivers another impressive collection

I » Dear Life: Stories

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n Dear Life, her 14th book of short stories, Alice Munro revisits the territory and topics that have endeared her to readers for years. Set mostly in the rural Canadian countryside she calls home, Munro weaves tales of regret, of unfulfilled lives, of children trying to make sense of the confounding things the adults around them do, of people resisting and resenting society’s changes. At their heart, her stories explore what it means to be human, and she writes of everyday struggles and desires in such a way that reading her work leaves you with a sense that she, somehow, knows you.

It’s this intimate quality, combined with her ingenuity in the short story format, that assures her place in literary history.

And, well, a little thing called the Nobel Prize can’t hurt either.

Munro won hers in October of this year, at age 82. She is just the 13th woman in the prize’s 112 years of existence to win. The fact that as a writer she is known primarily for her short stories

(she did publish one novel early in her career) also makes her win unique. Further, she’s considered the first Canadian to win a Nobel Prize (Saul Bellow was born in Canada but lived most of his life in the U.S.).

Munro shares an interesting connection to Mississippi, if only through our state’s literary heritage. She’s spoken of her adoration of Eudora Welty, another master of the art of the short story. Munro has also said that she loved reading other

writers from the South, like Flannery O’Connor, because they showed her that it was possible to write compellingly about small towns and rural areas.

William Faulkner said that his “… little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about,” and Munro seems to have taken this idea to heart. She lives near where she grew up, in rural Ontario, Canada, in a town of just 3,000 people. Much of her work is set in these out-of-the-way places. Her rural sensibility made the stories in Dear Life even more relatable for me, having grown up in a small town (Monticello, Mississippi) myself.

If you’re new to Munro’s work, Dear Life would be a fine starting point. Each story is filled with quiet power, dignity, and humanity. After the book was published last year, she said it would be her final one and she was retiring from writing. Then she won the Nobel Prize. Will that inspire her to keep going?

We’ll see, but I, for one, certainly hope so.

— LouAnn Lofton, mbj@msbusiness.com

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Pickering to run for Senate if Cochran decides against it Add State Auditor Stacey Pickering to the list of potential candidates for the U.S. Senate if Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) decides not to seek reelection in 2014.

Cochran has held the seat since 1978 and has said he’ll decide by the end of this month whether to seek another six-year term. However, a Cochran spokesman said the senator hasn’t specified when he’ll announce his plans.

If he seeks another term, Cochran will run with the advantages of incumbency, including name recognition and nearly $804,000 in campaign cash already on hand. If he doesn’t run, the race is expected to attract several candidates.

Pickering, a Republican, was elected state auditor in 2007 and re-elected in 2011.

Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel announced in October he is running for Senate, regardless of what Cochran does.

Cochran

Pickering

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— from staff and MBJ wire services

HEALTHCARE

Hancock Medical marks reconstruction completion BAY ST. LOUIS — Hancock Medical Center held an open house and ribbon cutting dedication Nov. 19 to mark the completion of its five-phase reconstruction project.

Work by general contractor Roy Anderson Corp. began in early 2011 and was completed months ahead of schedule, according to the hospital, with no disruption to patient care services.

Hancock Medical also honored long-time surgeon Dr. Joseph Lee with a naming dedication when one of the five operating rooms was named the Joseph Rillens Lee Surgical Suite.

Dr. Lee has practiced general surgery at the hospital for more than 35 years and he and his family are long-time residents of Waveland. The Hancock Medical Center Foundation honored Dr. Lee at its 2012 Moonlight on the Bay Gala, raising money for an integrated operating room system for the newly reconstructed surgery suites.

— Lisa Monti, MBJ

SANDERSON FARMS

From family business to major corporation

BY ALAN TURNER I PUBLISHER alan.turner@msbusiness.com Sanderson Farms was originally incorporated as a feed and seed store in the year 1955. From that beginning, the company has grown to be a $2.5billion corporation. It is the third largest vertically integrated poultry processing company in the United States, producing over three billion pounds of processed poultry annually. That’s a lot of chickens in anybody’s book.

The company employs over 12,000 people, and has more than 800 independent contract poultry producers. The company is currently adding new facilities, notably a new center in Palestine, Texas.

So how did Sanderson Farms go from a local feed and seed store to a major corporation? We talked recently with Joe F. Sanderson Jr., chairman and CEO of Sanderson Farms, for some insight into the company and it’s phenomenal success.

“You cannot sit still,” Joe said. “You might say we feel obligated to grow, because it is all about earnings per share and maintaining the trust of our shareholders. Without growth, that is not likely to happen.”

Joe joined the company in 1969 after graduating from Millsaps College, and worked in a variety of roles through the years, to finally take the helm of the company and emerge as one of the deans of Mississippi business. He has engineered much of the company’s growth in recent years, both through acquisitions and organic growth.

“One of the main assets of any company is its balance sheet,” he said. “It’s hard to overstate the importance of a strong balance sheet, because it will enable you to weather the inevitable downturns that are going to happen in the course of time.”

That theme — a strong, healthy balance sheet — came up several times in the course of our conversation, as well as in remarks he made at a meeting of the Madison Business League.

When asked what he sees as some of the bright spots in Mississippi’s economic future, he said that “agribusiness will always be an important but overlooked industry in Mississippi. There are other great opportunities as well, including medical, petrochemical, wood-based industry and high-tech development, but certainly agribusiness will always

GULF COAST

VT Halter Marine awarded $350M contract PASCAGOULA — VT Halter Marine, Inc. has secured an approximately $350 million contract with Crowley Maritime Corporation to build two container roll-on/roll-off ships.

The company says the vessels will be built at the Pascagoula facility with construction beginning the first half of 2014, and deliveries in mid- and late-2017.

The Sun Herald reports the vessel design is

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Sanderson Farms CEO Joe Sanderson chats with Mississippi Business Journal’s Alan Turner. be important to Mississippi.”

We discussed other issues, as well. Asked whether business is over-regulated at the present time, his unequivocal answer was, “Yes, it is, especially in the past few years. This has probably stifled some industries and prevented growth that might otherwise have occurred.” He does see Mississippi as a business-friendly environment with a strong and prosperous future, an encouraging assessment from a man who runs one of Mississippi’s biggest corporations.

As most are probably aware, Sanderson Farms undertook the sponsorship of the annual pro golf tournament held annually at Annandale, and Joe is very high on continuing that relationship.

“We saw this as a great opportunity to show support for Mississippi and for Children’s Hospital,”

he said. “We started out with a one year commitment, and we were so pleased that we have now expanded that commitment.”

One of the big changes that will happen in 2014 is that the tournament dates will be moved from mid-summer to early November, a move that will probably be welcomed by many of us who sweated through the tournament during the dog days of summer.

“This tournament is also a great opportunity to get our name and image associated with this event,” he said. “We think this can be a true destination event for Mississippi.”

Joe Sanderson and his company have been a major asset to Mississippi through the years, and after meeting and getting acquainted with him, we can well understand why.

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Kentucky paralegal who took on Big Tobacco as a whistleblower who leaked internal documents exposing health risks and the addictiveness of cigarettes, has died in Mississippi, decades after he joined the fight that forever changed perceptions of smoking.

Williams died last week of a heart attack in Ocean Springs his daughter, Jennifer Smith, said yesterday. He was 72.

He worked for a Kentucky law firm representing the then-Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. and leaked thousands of pages of internal memos and studies concerning smoking and health.

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