Gayle Benson pays off hundreds of Walmart layaway orders at Louisiana, Alabama stores
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Source: NOLA.com
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NEW ORLEANS - Gayle Benson, owner of the Saints and Pelicans, is doing her part to spread some much-needed holiday cheer in a difficult year.
NOLA.com reports Benson paid off roughly 300 layaway orders at three Walmart locations in Louisiana and Alabama. The donations benefited 122 families in the New Orleans area, 123 in Alexandria, and at least 30 more in Birmingham, where the Pelicans G-League affiliate will be located.
It s the latest donation from the New Orleans-based philanthropist, who s become known for making similar gestures around the holidays each year.
November saw significant transactions in Louisiana M&A
In one of the biggest Louisiana transactions in 2020, Riverstone Holdings, LLC, a private equity firm focused on energy and power, has agreed to purchase New Orleans-based terminal operator International-Matex Tank Terminals (IMTT) for $2.685 billion. IMTT stores and handles bulk liquid products for the energy, industrial, consumer and transport industries.
The seller, Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation, has held an interest in IMTT since 2006, when it purchased an initial 50% stake from the Coleman family, who founded the company. MIC bought the remaining 50% interest from the Coleman family in 2014 for $1.025 billion.
MITT operates 17 terminals in the United States plus two in Canada, for a total storage capacity of 48 million barrels. Its capacity is concentrated around economic hubs, with around a third of its capacity in the New York Harbor and another third in the Lower Mississippi River. The company enjoys a diversi
Overall crime has dropped dramatically in the United States since the late 1990s. But the 2020 homicide rate ânow exceeds the rates of the late â80s and â90s, before the big drop,â says Richard Rosenfeld, lead author of âPandemic, Social Unrest and Crime in US Cities,â a new report. âThis round of crime increase is unprecedented.â
This year, 51 cities across the U.S. saw an average 35% jump in murder from 2019 to 2020 â a âhistorically awfulâ development, says New Orleans-based crime analyst Jeff Asher, who crunched those numbers. A different study looking at 21 U.S. cities found 610 more murders in those jurisdictions this year over last year. In those cities, gun assaults increased by 10% over 2019.
December 14, 2020 By Frank McCormack
Turn Services, a New Orleans-based barge fleeting and shifting company that also offers barge repair and cleaning services, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and business of Bayou Fleet at Mile 125.5 on the Lower Mississippi River.
Bayou Fleet, located in Hahnville, La., on the west bank of the river, covers 85 acres along the batture and provides fleeting, shifting and both dry cargo and liquid barge cleaning, with operations independent of river stages.
According to Turn Services, the acquisition should be complete by the end of the year.
“The acquisition of Bayou Fleet is significant for Turn Services,” said Mario Muñoz, president of Turn Services. “This location, coupled with our other fleets along the Lower Mississippi River, allows us to offer our customers efficient solutions for the movement of their cargo.
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