Jackson, Miss. (Dec. 4, 2015) – Gov. Phil Bryant presented four Mississippi companies with awards today at the 2015 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in Exporting event, which was held at the Jackson Convention Complex. Designed to recognize Mississippi companies for their success in maintaining or increasing export sales to international…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, December 2, 2015: I’m always looking for new technology and gadgets, so this is an exciting time because not only are there always a lot of exciting technology items promoted for Christmas, but the Consumer Electronics Show will be coming up the first…
Third Annual (2015) Sustainable Energy Visionary Leader (VISER) Award The board of directors and officers of the Mississippi Biomass & Renewable Energy Council (MBREC) selected Rusty Ponder, Energy Management Coordinator for the Rankin County School District, to receive the Third Annual (2015) Sustainable Energy Visionary Leader (VISER) Award in recognition…
STARKVILLE, Mississippi—A reshoring webinar hosted by Mississippi Make It In America will show businesses the benefits of reshoring, an effort focused on bringing jobs that were previously offshored from the U.S. back to Mississippi. The Mississippi Make It In America team includes Mississippi State University, InnovateMEP Mississippi, the Mississippi Development…
New Investors Rally Around the Accelerated Manufacturing and Distribution of Tech Flo Exhaust, the Company’s Aftermarket Exhaust System Product ATLANTA (Nov. 18, 2015) – NG1 Technologies, a cleantech solutions company and winner of the 2014 Cleantech Open, today announced it has secured almost $1.5 million in funding and will soon…
Posted by: Ross Reily, Alan Turner in Columns, Education, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS November 19, 2015 Polly Dement, author of Mississippi Entrepreneurs, grew up in Vicksburg and learned her chosen craft of writing partly as a result of her education at Millsaps, where she was fortunate enough to attend some of the Welty seminars when the author…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 19, 2015 For more information, contact Sandra Buckley, 601-960-3629 or sbuckley@innovate.ms From left to right: Bubba Weir, vice president of Innovate Mississippi; Tim Coursey, executive director of the Madison County Economic Development Authority; Tony Jeff, president and CEO of Innovate Mississippi Jackson, Miss. (November…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, November 19, 2015: Anyone with a smartphone that has played around with cool apps probably has their favorites. When I find an app that I think is good, I’m probably somewhat annoying in my circle of friends because I become such an evangelist for…
By James B. Wilcox, Southern Miss Now, News Article, November 19, 215 The Southern Entrepreneurship Program (SEP), a statewide outreach program of The University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Center for Economic and Entrepreneurship Education, kicked off its 9th annual program series on Nov. 4 in Jackson, Miss. Nearly 350…
By Ted Carter, Mississippi Business Journal, November 12, 2015 Mississippi start-up companies that have labored in solitude to turn their ideas into dollars moved into the spotlight Tuesday in day one of Innovate Mississippi’s 16th Annual Conference on Technology Innovation. An audience that included members of Innovate Mississippi’s Venture Capital…