The New Orleans Chamber will hold its Third Quarter Business Luncheon at 11 a.m. Aug. 19 in the Sheraton New Orleans Grand Ballroom, 500 Canal St.
Peter Ricchiuti, founder and director of Burkenroad Reports and a business professor at the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, will be the keynote speaker. He will discuss the New Orleans economy, rising inflation, interest rate hikes and the oil and gas industry.
Tickets are $65 for chamber members and $75 for nonmembers. To register, go to neworleanschamber.org.
Harvest Midstream has purchased the remaining interest of Arrowhead Gulf Coast Holdings, a network of pipelines and terminals serving the Louisiana refinery market and regional production.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction will bring Arrowhead under full ownership of Harvest. Before this, a fund managed by BlackRock Real Assets held a 37.5% stake and Harvest owned the remaining 62.5%.
The deal shows the tremendous potential along the Louisiana Gulf Coast, said Jason Rebrook, Harvest CEO.
The Arrowhead system includes nearly 300 miles of crude and condensate pipelines and terminal assets in south Louisiana. The pipelines are integral to the crude supply of the Valero Meraux and PBF Chalmette refineries. Other pipeline and terminal assets include Golden Cocodrie, Atchafalaya, Eugene Island, Erath Tank Farm, Burns dock, Burns terminal and Sabine.
Kean’s Fine Dry Cleaning has opened a new location at 8967 Jefferson Highway, Suite 200, in Baton Rouge.
Kean's has been in business for more than 100 years.
Hub International Limited, a leading global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired the assets of Shaver-Robichaux Agency.
Shaver-Robichaux, which has offices in Thibodaux and Raceland, is an independent agency providing commercial and personal insurance solutions, including home, auto, health, life and recreation.
John Shaver, principal, and the Shaver-Robichaux team will join Hub Gulf South.
Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. has opened a branch at 7474 Florida Blvd., its first location in Baton Rouge.
Trisha Smith is the branch manager.
Guaranty Bank & Trust was founded in 1957 in New Roads. It also has branches in Zachary, Port Allen, Maringouin, Grosse Tete and Livonia.
LSU has teamed up with Fullstack Academy to launch a project management boot camp program, aimed at training workers in 25 weeks.
There are more than 10,000 project management job postings in metro Baton Rouge, and the industry is expected to grow 4.5% over the next decade, according to Emsi Burning Glass. The average entity level salary is $86,000.
The program covers project management skills, such as user interface/user experience, product design and marketing.
Total tuition for the program is $12,495. Scholarships are available.
Registration is open through Oct. 18 and classes start Oct. 25.
For information, go to bootcamp.online.lsu.edu.
Huntsman Corp. has started commercial operation of a new methylene diphenyl diisocyanate splitter at its Geismar site.
The $180 million splitter gives Huntsman the ability to produce more high value, differentiated grades from the crude MDI manufactured at the plant, allowing for growth in key customer applications.
Paul Davis Restoration of Baton Rouge is open at 11950 Industriplex Blvd.
The company, which specializes in restoring property damaged by water, fire, mold and storms, was founded in 1966.
Gracie and Gary Johnson have owned the Baton Rouge franchise since 2018. Paul Davis Restoration has more than 375 franchises in the U.S. and Canada.
Boykin Brothers, a precast concrete company based in Baton Rouge, is now Louisiana Concrete Products.
The company was recently acquired by GKB Management, an investment and management firm based in Lafayette.
This change in ownership will allow Louisiana Concrete Products to meet the anticipated demand for precast and prestressed concrete products in the industrial, municipal, commercial and residential construction sectors.
Louisiana Concrete Products plans to hire additional employees and expand product offerings to serve more industries and businesses.
A new partnership between Waitr and the New Orleans Saints will allow fans to order food and drinks from their seats during games.
Fans sitting in certain sections of the Caesars Superdome will be able to order through an app and pick up their food and drink once it is ready, without missing any of the game standing in concession line. Alcohol sales will be allowed.
The deal will also introduce ASAP, the new brand name for Waitr, to the New Orleans market.
Waitr has similar in-stadium concession agreements at LSU's Alex Box Stadium, the University of Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Russo Park and MetLife Stadium, the home of the New York Giants and New York Jets.
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