Legislation, weak economy make it difficult for Mississippi companies to go public
by Becky Gillette Published: April 12,2013
Tags: going public, IPO, Jeremy Nelson, Pinnacle Trust, Public Companies, Sarbanes-Oxley, The First Bancshares, Vector Money Management
The last Mississippi company to go public was The First Bancshares Inc. in 1996. Only four Mississippi-based companies have gone public since 1950. And since the 1990s, the number of public companies in Mississippi has dropped a significant amount. Experts say the reason more companies in Mississippi and elsewhere in the country aren’t going public [...] [...]
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