by MBJ Staff Published: April 15,2012
Tags: American Lung Association, Ed Blakeslee, Haley Barbour, Institutions of Higher Learning, Jones County Junior College Foundation, Marilyn Moore, Mississippi Power Company, Mississippi State Port Authority, Mississippi State University, Robin Robinson, Sanderson Farms Inc., University of Southern Mississippi
President of the Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning Robin Robinson has passed the gavel to incoming president Ed Blakeslee at a Board meeting held today in Jackson. Blakeslee will officially take the seat on April 1. Blakeslee was appointed to the IHL Board of Trustees by former Gov. Haley Barbour [...] [...]
Sanderson Farms Inc. announced that Rowan H. Taylor has informed the company that he will retire from the company’s board of directors when his current term ends at the 2012 annual shareholders’ meeting. Taylor joined Sanderson Farms’ board in 1989. Taylor previously served as chairman of the board and CEO of Mississippi Valley Title Insurance [...] [...]

The pyrotechnical display routinely provided by Sanderson Farms Inc.’s plant in Collins is no more as the company has found a better — and more profitable — way of disposing of “unwanted” methane gas. And thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), Sanderson expects to recoup its cost in the project within the [...] [...]
LAUREL — Sanderson Farms Inc., as reported last week at www.msbusiness.com, saw net sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 of $504.8 million compared with $466.9 million for the same period a year ago. For the quarter, the Company reported net income of $43 million, or $2.09 per diluted share, compared with a net [...] [...]