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Lafayette Metropolitan Area, Louisiana
Lafayette, Vermilionville, or the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area per the Office of Management and Budget, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, is the third largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located in the south central Acadiana region, it covers five parishes. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, 478,384 people lived in the metropolitan area, making it the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 116th most populous in the United States and one of Louisiana's fastest growing metropolises; in 2010, its population was 273,738 and it outpaced the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area in 2015. The approximately metropolitan area centers on Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, Lafayette Parish, which contains the city of Lafayette, Louisiana, Lafayette—the largest economic and cultural center of Acadiana—with a consolidated city-parish population of 244,390 in 2019; the city proper's population was 121,374 in 2020. Part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petroleum Helicopters International
Petroleum Helicopters International, Inc. (PHI), is an American commercial helicopter operator, founded in 1949, by Robert L. Suggs. The company is based in Lafayette, Louisiana and provides service for the oil and gas industry, aeromedical services, pilot training and aircraft maintenance. In October 2017, PHI acquired Helicopters (NZ) from HNZ Group. On March 15, 2019, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. On June 5, 2019, court-supervised arbitration announced an agreement to force the retirement of CEO Al Gonsoulin and strip him of his shares. History PHI Inc. was founded by Robert L. Suggs and Maurice M. Bayon with a startup cost of $100,000, and three Bell 47 helicopters. They started by providing service to a seismographic group working in the wetlands of Louisiana. The company's service extended to offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, and grew their fleet with the addition of the Sikorsky S-55 and the Sikorsky S-58 helicopters. Over the nex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albertsons
Albertsons Companies, Inc. is an American grocery company founded and headquartered in Boise, Idaho. With 2,253 stores as of the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 and 270,000 employees as of fiscal year 2019, the company is the second-largest supermarket chain in North America after Kroger. Albertsons ranked 53rd in the 2018 Fortune 500, ''Fortune'' 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. Prior to its January 2015 merger with Safeway Inc. for $9.2 billion, it had 1,075 supermarkets located in 29 U.S. states under 12 different regional banners. Its predecessor company, Albertsons, Inc., was reorganized as Albertsons LLC and sold to AB Acquisition LLC, a Cerberus Capital Management–led consortium. After buying back the majority of its former stores it sold to SuperValu in 2006, AB Acquisition announced it would change its name to Albertsons Companies Inc. in 2015. The company's corporate name was Albertson's Inc. until 2002, when the apostrophe wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rouses
Rouses Markets is a chain of grocery supermarkets in the U.S. states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. History The company had its start as the City Produce Company, founded in Thibodaux, Louisiana by J. P. Rouse in 1923, which bought produce from local farmers in the Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, Terrebonne and Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Lafourche Parishes, as well as the French Market in New Orleans, and shipped them around the United States. In 1960, Anthony Rouse Sr. (son of J. P. Rouse) and his cousin, Ciro DiMarco, opened a grocery store in Houma, Louisiana. In the 1970s, Ciro decided to exit the business and sold his portion of the business to Anthony's son, Ryan Rouse. In the late 1970s Anthony's son Tommy also joined the business. Throughout the 1970s, the company operated stores in Houma, Louisiana, Houma, Raceland, Louisiana, Raceland and the Rouses’ hometown of Thibodaux. During the 1980s, the company opened more new stores in South Louisiana, in the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Horizon Bank
First Horizon Corporation, formerly First Tennessee Bank, is a financial services company, founded in 1864, and based in Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee. Through its banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank, it provides financial services through locations in 12 states across the Southeast, a region in which it is the fourth largest regional bank. In November 2019, First Horizon Corporation and IberiaBank, IberiaBank Corporation agreed to merge, closing in July 2020. The combined bank is based in Memphis, Tennessee, and uses the First Horizon name. The bank gained national attention during the 2023 banking crisis, in which multiple regional banks across the United States as well as the Swiss institution Credit Suisse all collapsed and were bought out. First Horizon's stock price began to plummet in the wake of both a merger with Toronto-Dominion Bank being called off and the collapse of First Republic Bank in San Francisco. History Frank S. Davis founded First National Bank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IberiaBank
IBERIABANK Corporation, stylized as IBERIABANK, was an American financial holding company headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, and the largest bank based in the state. Founded in 1887, it had 325 combined locations, including 190 bank branches and three loan production offices in 12 states primarily throughout the Southern United States, South. The company had 16 wealth management locations in five states, and one Iberia Capital Partners office in New Orleans. IBERIABANK was an FDIC-insured institution regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. On March 31, 2009, as the 2008 financial crisis came to an end, IberiaBank became the first financial institution in the country to repay its Troubled Asset Relief Program, TARP funds to the Treasury. In November 2019, IBERIABANK Corporation and Memphis, Tennessee-based First Horizon Corporation agreed to merge. The combined bank is based in Memphis and uses the First Horizon name. The merger closed July 2, 2020. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington, the company originally started as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories, referred to as "The Everything Store". Today, Amazon is considered one of the Big Tech, Big Five American technology companies, the other four being Alphabet Inc., Alphabet, Apple Inc., Apple, Meta Platforms, Meta, and Microsoft. The company has multiple subsidiaries, including Amazon Web Services, providing cloud computing; Zoox (company), Zoox, a self-driving car division; Kuiper Systems, a satellite Internet provider; and Amazon Lab126, a computer hardware R&D provider. Other subsidiaries include Ring (company), Ring, Twitch (service), Twitch, IMDb, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Charles Metropolitan Area
The Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area is a metropolitan area in the Acadiana region of southwest Louisiana that covers three parishes— Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis. According to a 2023 census estimate, the MSA had a population of 240,082. It is also part of the larger Lake Charles–DeRidder combined statistical area which had a population of 276,909 in 2023. The Lake Charles MSA also shares borders with the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area to the west. Metropolitan Lake Charles, the principal city, is commonly referred to as the Lake Area. Parishes * Calcasieu *Cameron *Jefferson Davis Communities Cities * DeQuincy * Lake Charles (principal city) * Jennings * Sulphur * Westlake Towns * Iowa * Vinton Unincorporated areas Census-designated places * Cameron * Carlyss * Hackberry * Moss Bluff * Prien Other communities * Bell City * Big Lake * Creole * Gillis * Grand Chenier * Grand Lake * Hayes * Holly Beach * Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Lafayette Parish () is a List of parishes in Louisiana, parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. According to the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, the parish had a population of 241,753, up from 221,578 at the 2010 United States census. The County seat, parish seat and largest city is Lafayette, Louisiana, Lafayette. The parish was founded in 1823. Since 1996, the city and parish have operated as a consolidated city-county, consolidated government. Etymology The city and parish of Lafayette were named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French general who took part in the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and financially aided it. Geography Lafayette Parish is a part of the region of Acadiana in southern Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of , of which is land and (0.2%) is water. It is the fifth-smallest parish in Louisiana by land area a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shreveport–Bossier City Metropolitan Area
The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, officially designated Shreveport–Bossier City by the Office of Management and Budget, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, or simply Greater Shreveport, is a metropolitan statistical area in North Louisiana, northwestern Louisiana that covers three parishes: Caddo Parish, Louisiana, Caddo, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, Bossier, and DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, DeSoto. At the 2020 United States census, the metropolitan region had a population of 393,406; its American Community Survey population was 397,590 per census estimates. With a 2010 United States census, 2010 census population of 439,000, it declined to become Louisiana's fourth largest metropolis at 394,706 residents at the 2019 census estimates. Shreveport–Bossier City is the largest economic and cultural center of North Louisiana and the wider Ark-La-Tex region. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan region comprises the highest concentration of colleges and universities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
