Mississippi Business Journal » Public Companies http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 21 May 2013 19:01:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 BancorpSouth CEO credits decades of leadership, innovation to bank’s 135-year history http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/12/bancorpsouth-ceo-credits-decades-of-leadership-innovation-to-banks-135-year-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bancorpsouth-ceo-credits-decades-of-leadership-innovation-to-banks-135-year-history http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/12/bancorpsouth-ceo-credits-decades-of-leadership-innovation-to-banks-135-year-history/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:09:54 +0000 Lynn Lofton http://msbusiness.com/?p=73176 From a humble beginning as a small bank in a hardware store in Verona, BancorpSouth has grown into a regional financial holding company with $13.4 billion in assets and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The Mississippi company began trading under the symbol BOMS on NASDAQ in 1985. Since 1997 it has traded [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/12/bancorpsouth-ceo-credits-decades-of-leadership-innovation-to-banks-135-year-history/feed/ 0 Legislation, weak economy make it difficult for Mississippi companies to go public http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/12/legislation-weak-economy-make-it-difficult-for-mississippi-companies-to-go-public/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legislation-weak-economy-make-it-difficult-for-mississippi-companies-to-go-public http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/12/legislation-weak-economy-make-it-difficult-for-mississippi-companies-to-go-public/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:07:17 +0000 Becky Gillette http://msbusiness.com/?p=73171 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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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/12/legislation-weak-economy-make-it-difficult-for-mississippi-companies-to-go-public/feed/ 1 One trial down, at least one to go http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/17/one-trial-down-at-least-one-to-go/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=one-trial-down-at-least-one-to-go http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/17/one-trial-down-at-least-one-to-go/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:00:37 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=43533 In late June, a trial wrapped up in Hinds County Chancery Court in which Trustmark National Bank defended itself against allegations of mismanaging a trust account by doling out $1.7 million in improper payments to one of its beneficiaries. It’s one of three active cases the Mississippi Business Journal was able to confirm that featured [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/17/one-trial-down-at-least-one-to-go/feed/ 0 Highest Paid CEOs of Mississippi-based Public Companies http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/17/highest-paid-ceos-of-mississippi-based-public-companies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=highest-paid-ceos-of-mississippi-based-public-companies http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/17/highest-paid-ceos-of-mississippi-based-public-companies/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:00:08 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=43531 Joe Sanderson Jr. (Sanderson Farms Inc.) $1,213,152 Aubrey Patterson (BancorpSouth) $803,088 Richard Hickson (Trustmark Corporation, ret.) $750,000 Steven Rogers (Parkway Properties Inc.) $544,000 David Hoster (EastGroup Properties Inc.) $525,000 Fred Callon (Callon Petroleum) $464,520 Carl Chaney/John Hairston (Hancock Bank) $432,000 E. Robinson McGraw (Renasant Bank) $410,000 Hugh Potts (First M&F Corporation) $288,750 Chevis Swetman (Peoples [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/17/highest-paid-ceos-of-mississippi-based-public-companies/feed/ 0 Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/04/04/seeing-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeing-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/04/04/seeing-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:01:06 +0000 Laura Smith http://msbusiness.com/?p=21817 Parkway stocks are trading at $19, up from a low of $9, a sign, it says, of better times to come Mississippi’s two publically-traded real estate companies, Parkway Properties and EastGroup Properties, can see the light at the end of the recession’s tunnel, executives at both companies say. “If you look at the meltdown that [...]

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