Business News for the Mississippi Delta

Andy Dulaney

Tunica Mayor Leading With a Steady Hand Born and raised in Tunica, Andrews T. “Andy” Dulaney attended Tunica schools through the tenth grade before completing the 11th and 12th grade at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va. After earning his undergraduate degree at Emory University in 1989, he graduated from University of Georgia School of […]

Patrick Davis

Success at State Farm and Community Leader State Farm, the largest insurance company in the country, is known for choosing agents who are very highly regarded in their communities. Patrick Davis, Owner Agent for the State Farm Insurance Agency in Cleveland, works hard to help customers understand what kind of insurance coverage they need, and […]

Tripp Hayes

New Delta Council President Continuing the Vision Clarksdale native Tripp Hayes, the new president of Delta Council, grew up on a farm. After graduating from Lee Academy, he went on to get a B.S. in banking and finance at the University of Mississippi.  His first job after college was with the Cotton Board in Memphis, […]

Lorie Till

Leading NWMRMC to a positive future Photography by Austin Britt It was while working at a grocery store in Brandon, Mississippi that Lorie Till decided to enter the medical field, thus starting a trajectory that has led her to become the Executive Officer of Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale. “Firefighters and EMTs would […]

Jason White

New Speaker Rises to the Occasion Photography by Greg Campbell  To hold one of the most powerful political roles in the state of Mississippi, Jason White is an unassuming man.    But beneath his outward friendliness and approachability—commented on several times by members of the state legislature from both parties in media interviews—the new Speaker […]

Daniel Boggs

CEO of Greater Greenville and a Forward Thinking Visionary Photography by Johnny Jennings Daniel Boggs is a living refutation of Leo Derocher’s famous statement that “nice guys finish last.”     First of all, you couldn’t meet a nicer man than Boggs, currently the Chief Executive Officer of Greater Greenville—what he has shortened from the […]

John Murry Greenlee

Portrait of a Gentleman Banker By Jack Criss  •  Photography by Jamie Patterson As President of BankPlus in Yazoo City, John Murry Greenlee exemplifies the best of a traditional banker. A self-described true “people person,” Greenlee could be considered old-fashioned in that he puts the customer first at all times and believes that relationships—especially in […]

Anne Hall Brashier

Chief of Staff for Governor Tate Reeves By Jack Criss  •  Photography by Greg Campell Anne Hall Brashier’s path to becoming the Chief of Staff for Governor Tate Reeves in January, the first female in state history to ever assume that role, was something the Indianola native never would have imagined growing up in Indianola.  […]

Heaton Pecans

Clarksdale Family Business Success Spreads Across Region By Becky Gillette  •  Photography by Aaron Davis There is nothing that says Southern Hospitality with food better than a gift box from Heaton Pecans in Clarksdale. The family operation that started forty years ago has now grown tremendously to offer pecan products through some of the largest online […]

Cindy Tyler

Owner and Founder of The Mississippi Gift Company By Becky Gillette  •  Photography by Johnny Jennings When Cindy Tyler founded The Mississippi Gift Company in Greenwood thirty years ago, it was a very different retail market. Their niche was providing mail-ordered corporate gift baskets filled with Mississippi-made goodies. When The Mississippi Gift Company started out, […]