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SCORE back in business in Jackson

  By Ted Carter SCORE, formerly the Service Corps of Retired Executives, has returned to mentoring small business owners and entrepreneurs in metro Jackson after a 12-year absence. SCORE of Metro...

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JOSH MABUS — Experience – find your least common denominator

The Experience — does it set you apart? In a marketplace where most products and services aren’t unique, setting your brand apart can be difficult. This was the biggest concern of a group of bank...

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ALAN TURNER — Full circle for Masa Liles

During the past few years, I’ve met and become acquainted with a number of business professionals who grew up in Mississippi, left to pursue careers, and wound up coming home to the Magnolia State....

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Ole Miss grad making the grade with portable dog kennel

By TED CARTER Sometimes your best business idea is sitting right behind you. Addison Edmonds discovered that as he drove his pickup truck with his British chocolate lab Gunner in the back. Was Gunner...

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Co-working ‘community’ concept coming to Fondren’s Duling Hall

By TED CARTER One really can be the loneliest number if you’re starting a business, especially an innovative one that can succeed only by making inroads into unexplored technological applications. That...

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Hot Sticks has the looks and licks drummers want

By LISA MONTI Wooden dowels come in by the truckload to the Hot Sticks manufacturing plant in Hancock County and thousands of drumsticks and wooden marketing items go out every week to customers...

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Bouncing at HighHeaven: Trampoline Park takes in the crowds with Flowood opening

By TED CARTER Metro Jackson’s newest recreational attraction opened its doors Saturday to a steady crowd of visitors looking to do some non-stop bouncing. “It was bonkers,” Ryan Spencer, manager of...

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Glass Doctor

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Commodore Bob’s Yacht Club

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Two Brother’s Smoked Meats

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Bay St. Louis’ Starfish Cafe helps to find careers

By LISA MONTI Customers at Starfish Cafe come to the colorful cottage in Old Town Bay St. Louis to enjoy healthful meals and catch up with friends among the tourists who eat at the popular Main Street...

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People Lease hires Beazley

Stacey Beazley has joined the People Lease staff. Her responsibilities include helping clients with enrollment and deductions for Blue Cross Blue Shield as well as quarterly reporting. Originally from...

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Bailey Diane

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Nurse turns entrepreneur with Marina Cottage Soap Co.

By LISA MONTI Vanessa Mueller can still remember how her young daughter suffered from eczema and how frustrated she was with the limited treatment options. “As a mom, I felt helpless,” she said. “We...

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Independent Coast pharmacy expansion built on customer care and those little...

By LISA MONTI Independent pharmacist Rudy Letellier seems to have found the right customer service formula to expand business: earn the customer’s trust, provide attentive service and offer facials,...

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Legal whiskey to flow in Kiln community

By LISA MONTI Matt Crittenden’s goal is to start making craft whiskey next year on the family farm in the Kiln community. When the liquor starts to flow, it will be the first legal whiskey produced in...

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Ammo maker developing lighter rounds for special ops

By LISA MONTI Ammunition makers have been trying for 50 years or more to develop bullets that are lighter to carry and transport than the conventional brass encased ones. Until recently, though, the...

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Old Cuevas Bistro thrives in new location

By LISA MONTI After Old Cuevas Bistro burned to the ground in July 2014, loyal customers waited hopefully for news about the Pass Christian restaurant’s comeback. In early 2015, word began to spread...

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JOSH MABUS — If you aren’t online, you don’t exist

Have you ever had a friend tell you a story so outlandish you made them show you a picture before you would believe them? If you hunt or fish, you know exactly what I’m talking about. “You’ll never...

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New homes in Fondren ahead for BancorpSouth, Wier Boerner Allin architects

By TED CARTER BancorpSouth has begun a long-planned expansion of its Fondren office at 2710 N. State St., joining a host of other nearby property owners who are either renovating buildings or...

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