Neuro.io, powered by global neurotechnology company MindMaze AI, plans to establish operations in Houma, Louisiana. The $100 million project is expected to create more than 1,100 jobs in Terrebonne Parish.
Copado, a technology company specializing in AI-powered DevOps software for business applications, plans to establish operations in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project is expected to create 20 jobs.
DAQA, a provider of player-centric test programs and technology-driven quality solutions for the videogame industry, established a quality assurance center in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project is expected to create up to 20 jobs.
Laborde Products, a marine engine and equipment distribution company, plans to expand its operation in Covington, Louisiana. The $5.85 million project is expected to create five jobs in St. Tammany Parish.
Construction and design firm RNGD plans to expand its operations in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. The approximately $25 million project is expected to create 130 jobs.
Silicon Valley startup Twistlock raised a $51 million seed round for its new security company, Gutsy, and will establish the company’s headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The project is expected to create ten jobs over the next two years.
360insights, a global software company, plans to relocate its U.S. headquarters to New Orleans, Louisiana. The project is expected to create 50 jobs.
United Utility Services, a portfolio company of Baton Rouge-based Bernhard Capital Partners, plans to relocate and establish its national headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project is expected to create 141 jobs over the next five years.
Placid Refining, an independent petroleum refining company, plans to relocate its headquarters to Baton Rouge and modernize its existing facility in Port Allen, Louisiana. The $66 million project is expected to create 20 jobs.
Big Fish Games, a leading mobile casual game developer, plans to establish operations in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project is expected to create 40 jobs over the coming years.
Tides Medical, a producer of skin graft products distributed nationwide for use in the treatment of chronic or difficult-to-heal wounds, will upgrade its corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Louisiana. The $1.5 million project is expected to create 40 jobs.
Niagara Bottling, one of the nation’s leading beverage manufacturers, plans to establish a new production facility near Hammond, Louisiana. The $160 million project is expected to create 70 jobs.
Excella, an Agile technology firm that specializes in artificial intelligence and modernizing IT systems, is establishing a talent hub in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project is expected to create 150 jobs over the next five years.
Oilfield services company Schlumberger will centralize its North Gulf Coast divisions at a new operations hub in Lafayette, Louisiana. The $11.5 million is expected to create 44 jobs.
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, officially opened its new operations center in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project is expected to create 50 jobs.
Entergy Corporation, an energy company engaged in electric power production, transmission and retail distribution operations, is expanding its contact center in West Monroe, Louisiana. The project is expected to create 171 new jobs.
Advanced Call Center Technologies is investing $1.5 million to develop a new customer care center in Shreveport, Louisiana. The project is expected to create 600 new jobs.
Possibility Space, a game development studio that builds large-scale video games for a global audience, will build a video game development studio in New Orleans, Louisiana. The project is expected to create 75 new jobs.
Premier Health Consultants will invest $1.5 million to expand its headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The project is expected to create 50 jobs.
Intralox will expand its global headquarters in Harahan and Hammond, Louisiana. The company plans to add a total of 80 associates to its workforce.
Swaybox Studios will expand its animation production operations under the state’s Entertainment Job Creation Program in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
Breeze Airways, which provides nonstop flights to 10 destinations, will locate a southeastern hub and operations base in New Orleans, Louisiana. The company will invest $6.6 million at MSY and is expected to create 261 new direct jobs.
SafeSource Direct, a joint venture between Ochsner Health and Trax Development, plans to develop two manufacturing facilities for personal protective equipment in Lafayette Parish and St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. The projects are expected to create
Gramercy Labs plans to locate its innovative tech and media incubator in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The mental health clinic Brightside and behavioral health software-development firm Everso will create a combined 20 new direct jobs at their respective facilities in Bogalusa and Denham Springs, Louisiana.
A Tennessee-based company providing bulk transportation of specialty chemicals, Highway Transport opened its $12.5 million flagship service center in Geismar, Louisiana.
SchoolMint, the education software company, will relocate its headquarters and consolidate its U.S. operations to Lafayette, Louisiana.
Click Here Digital, a digital marketing company, will relocate to a new corporate headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The company plans to create 100 new jobs.
Raistone Capital, the New York-based financial technology firm is expanding to New Orleans, Louisiana. The company will establish an operations center in the city’s Central Business District.
Allpax Products will invest $7 million to build an 80,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing center in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. The new location will replace existing facilities where the food and pharmaceutical equipment maker has operated for more than two decades.
Base Craft, a motion picture equipment leasing company, will expand its Bayou State operations in Harahan, Louisiana. The project is being incentivized by Louisiana’s Entertainment Job Creation Program.
A national company specializing in electrical infrastructure engineering, design and construction management, Ampirical Solutions will build a 78,000-square-foot corporate headquarters near Covington, Louisiana. The company will consolidate its existing St. Tammany Parish locations into the new office building.
Coast Professional Inc. dedicated its newly designed 8,200-square-foot contact center in West Monroe, Louisiana. The company already has hired more than 100 new employees at the location.
Under the state’s Entertainment Job Creation Program, Solomon Group, a national entertainment design and production company, will create 86 new direct jobs in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Testronic will launch a new 150-job testing facility for digital games in the New Orleans Exchange Centre, formerly Chevron Place in New Orleans, Louisiana.
BBQGuys, an online retailer specializing in grills and smokers, outdoor kitchens, patio furniture and other leisure products formerly known as ShoppersChoice.com, will expand its online sales operation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The company plans to create 50 jobs.
Accruent, a global software company, opened the company’s new technology center of excellence that ultimately will house up to 350 new employees in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Litify will open a new regional office in New Orleans, Louisiana. The company is expected to create 20 new direct jobs by 2021.
Technology Associates will expand its presence at the University of New Orleans, Louisiana. The company plans to create 70 new jobs focused on marine engineering.
Coast Professional Inc. will create 146 new direct jobs in an expansion of its contact center in West Monroe, Louisiana.
Viemed Healthcare is expanding its headquarters and creating 220 new direct jobs in Lafayette, Louisiana.
North Korea-based Lotte Group dedicated its $3.1 billion chemical complex in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Ernst & Young plans to open an executive support center within its expanded and remodeled downtown operations complex in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Jani-King Gulf Coast broke ground on a new 18,000-square-foot corporate headquarters facility in Ponchatoula, Louisiana.
LHC Group broke ground on the home health company’s $46 million operations center in Lafayette, Louisiana. The project is expected to create 500 direct jobs.
YoungWillliams PC will create 240 direct jobs and make a $4.1 million capital investment through new call centers in Bossier City and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Aggreko is expanding its operations in New Iberia, Louisiana, retaining 265 existing jobs, and creating 30 new direct jobs. Headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, Aggreko provides temporary solutions worldwide for power, heating, cooling, and oil-free compressed air.
Accruent, a company that specializes in software and IT products, will establish a technology center of excellence in the New Orleans, Louisiana’s Central Business District, with plans to create 350 jobs.
DXC Technology dedicated the company’s New Orleans, Louisiana, Digital Transformation Center at the newly named DXC Technology Building.
CGI, a global technology firm, will launch a significant expansion of its Lafayette, Louisiana, IT Center of Excellence and create 400 new direct jobs.
A cybersecurity firm, Twistlock will establish a Global Solutions Engineering Center at LSU Innovation Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
India-based digital data services company iMerit will locate its first United States delivery center in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.
Drax Biomass, a wood pellet producer and a subsidiary of UK-based Drax Group plc, will relocate its headquarters to Monroe, Louisiana.
Apple is undertaking a new set of investments to build on its commitment to support the American economy and its workforce, which includes breaking ground on a new facility in downtown Reno, Nevada, which will support its existing facilities.
DXC Technology will establish a Digital Transformation Center in the heart of New Orleans, Louisiana. DXC will hire 300 IT and business enterprise professionals during 2018, then ramp up to 2,000 jobs over five years.
Select Comfort Corp dedicated the company’s new technical support contact center in the Elmwood area of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. The new support center occupies 28,000 square feet at an office building in the Elmwood business corridor near New Orleans, located at 1333 South Clearview Parkway.
Select Comfort Corp. will establish a technical support contact center in the Elmwood business corridor of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, near New Orleans.
Noranda Bauxite & Alumina will invest $35 million to expand and upgrade its alumina refinery in St. James Parish, Louisiana. The company also plans to establish its company headquarters at the Gramercy complex.
Waitr, an on-demand food delivery service and online restaurant technology platform, opened its operations center in Lafayette, Louisiana, where the company is expanding support of online and mobile software solutions for the restaurant industry.
Provision Healthcare and its partners will make a $100 million capital investment and build a 30,000-square-foot Louisiana Proton Therapy Center in the New Orleans, Louisiana biomedical corridor.
Total Quality Logistics will open its newest 8,125-square-foot facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. A third-party freight brokerage firm, Total Quality Logistics will create 97 new direct jobs at the facility over the next 10 years.
South Korean-based Lotte Chemical USA will establish its headquarters in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where the corporate office will join Lotte Chemical USA’s $1.1 billion monoethylene glycol – or MEG – plant under construction at the junction of Interstates 10 and 210.
Monster Moto opened company’s new headquarters and manufacturing campus in Ruston, Louisiana, 69 miles east of Shreveport, where it assembles minibikes, go-carts and other youth-oriented vehicles.
Triton Stone Group of New Orleans, a wholesale distributor of granite and natural stone products, acquired the Triton Stone brand in a $40 million deal, and is relocating the Triton Stone headquarters to the greater New Orleans region.
CSRA dedicated the new 96,000-square-foot Integrated Technology Center that will ultimately create 800 new jobs and anchor the 3,000-acre National Cyber Research Park in Bossier City, Louisiana.
In mid-July, PwC released its Q2 2016 Manufacturing Barometer, which surveyed senior executives at U.S.-based industrial manufacturing firms to determine their assessment of the direction of the nation’s economy, as well as their projections for thei
CSRA, a company that delivers a broad range of innovative, cloud-enabled, next-generation IT solutions and professional services, will establish a Customer Engagement Center in Bossier City, Louisiana, with plans to create 300 jobs.
An online and mobile software solution company, Waitr Inc. will develop a technology operations center in Lafayette, Louisiana, with plans to hire 100 associates.
Select Laboratory Software, a company that develops cloud-based medical laboratory software used in toxicology and clinical laboratories across the nation, will expand its operations to New Orleans, Louisiana.
CGI held its formal opening for the company's new $13.1 million onshore information technology (services Center of Excellence in Lafayette, Louisiana. The 50,000-square-foot facility houses CGI's fourth U.S. onshore delivery center and is expected to create up to 400 high-quality IT jobs in southwest Louisiana by 2020.
Perficient Inc. dedicated its software development center at the former Jefferson Street Market building in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana. A leading information technology and management consulting firm, Perficient will create 245 jobs in the region by 2020.
A company that provides business process management services to companies to improve their processes, BlueLine Associates will establish a software development office at the Louisiana Technology Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With the new office, Bl
Smashing Boxes, the digital product agency, will invest $500,000 to launch new operations in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the company will create 85 new direct jobs.
Denka Performance Elastomer plans to establish its new corporate headquarters at the company’s site in LaPlace, Louisiana. The company has acquired the Neoprene synthetic rubber business of DuPont Performance Polymers. The project will create 16 new corporate executive jobs.
TriWest Healthcare Alliance selected Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, to establish its Healthcare Alliance New Orleans Operations Center, which will serve as a traditional contact center for veterans through the Veterans Choice Program of the U.S. Depart
A provider of industrial maintenance, engineering and construction services, Brown & Root will establish its corporate headquarters at Citiplace on Corporate Boulevard in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Torsh, a video-based technology company focused on improving student achievement by enhancing external factors such as teacher effectiveness, relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana, to join the city’s growing education technology community.
A company that designs, manufactures and distributes gas- and electric-powered minibikes and go-carts, Monster Moto will establish its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Ruston, Louisiana, for the assembly of minibikes, go-carts and other youth-oriented vehicles.
A leading integrated solutions and services provider in the process control industry, Setpoint Integrated Solutions plans to open its new 113,000 sq. ft. U.S. operations headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Telecommunications company CenturyLink opened its the three-story, 300,000-square-foot, Technology Center of Excellence at its corporate headquarters campus in Monroe, Louisiana.
EPIC Piping will make a $45.3 million capital investment in Livingston, Louisiana, to establish an advanced pipe fabrication facility and corporate headquarters.
High Voltage Software Inc. will establish a new video game development studio in New Orleans, Louisiana, with plans to create 80 jobs. The firm plans to lease a suite in Place St. Charles in the city’s Central Business District.
Qalytics LLC will relocate from Seattle to the Louisiana Technology Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The software testing and quality assurance company will create 34 new permanent jobs at the tech park.
Momentive Specialty Chemicals will construct a new chemical production facility in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana and upgrade the plant it currently operates in Ascension Parish. The plant expansions, representing a capital investment of $66 million, will increase Momentive’s production of formaldehyde for use by nearby chemical plants in the manufacture of other products.
A $22 million, 65,000-square-foot, training Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Technology at the Bossier Parish Community College was dedicated as part of a partnership between the State of Louisiana and Benteler Steel/Tube along with
South Africa-based Sasol Ltd. made a final investment decision to develop an $8.1 billion petrochemical complex consisting of an ethane cracker and six chemical manufacturing plants near its existing Westlake, Louisiana, production facilities.
Westlake Chemical will expand its ethylene capacity and make other capital improvements in Southwest Louisiana through a more than $330 million capital investment. Westlake Chemical Corp. will retain 480 existing jobs and create 25 new direct jobs.
Sempra Energy’s LNG operations began construction in Hackberry, Louisiana, on a new liquefaction processing complex and liquefied natural gas export terminal.
TSE International will make a $1.18 million capital investment to expand its Shreveport, Louisiana-area manufacturing center. The company will create 30 jobs in the Northwest Region of Louisiana.
A new 118,000-square-foot, $21.5 million, Hangar H facility opened at Chennault International Airport in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The high-bay, wide-body aviation hangar will be used for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul technical services on major ai
A global commodities merchant, Castleton Commodities International will make a $1.2 billion capital investment to develop a new methanol manufacturing plant along the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, south of New Orleans.
India-based Stixis Technologies Inc. will open its first U.S. development center at the Louisiana Technology Park in Baton Rouge, creating 230 new jobs.
Renaissance RX, the biomedical company, will make an $8 million capital investment to establish its headquarters in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, creating at least 425 new jobs.
Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, recently expanded in scope from four liquefaction trains, or production units, to six.
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