Making of the Mississippi 100
List remains only ranking of state's private companies
by Wally Northway
Published: October 16,2011
Tags: Mississippi 100, Mississippi 100 Private Companies, Ross Reily, Stephen McDill
Back in the early 1990s in an effort to improve the Mississippi 100 ranking of the state’s most successful private companies, a Mississippi Business Journal staffer went to the Eudora Welty Library in Jackson looking for research material. When asked for a good resource of privately held companies in the state, the librarian smiled broadly [...]
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