Business News for the Mississippi Delta

Sarah Rose Lomenick

Instrumental Member of the “2nd Chance” Team As Program Director of 2nd Chance MS in Oxford, Sarah Rose Lomenick gets to follow her “lifelong passion” of working with those who are financially insecure or vulnerable in the population to get back on their feet and find better opportunities. A non-profit organization founded by father and […]

Greenville Projects are on Track

Progress Made on Bypass and Federal Courthouse  Two major projects in Greenville will add much to the Delta’s largest city and the region. In December 2015, Congress funded nearly $1 billion to design and construct 12 federal courthouses across the nation, including one in Greenville. And that project, after all these years, is getting close […]

Billy Johnson

Fourth generation Delta native, Billy Johnson, the President of the  MS Wildlife Heritage Museum, Leland Blues Project Director, and Highway 61 Blues Museum curator, is teaching people about the accomplishments  of Mississippians.   Johnson attended MDCC, before he transferred to Delta State for a semester. He then attended Ole Miss for a short time before […]

David Smith Construction

Family Owned and Operated  Headquartered in Inverness since 1976, David Smith has been serving the Delta’s construction needs. But in 1983, Smith was looking to add more commercial business to the residential and he and his partner amicably decided to move in separate directions. David Smith Construction was created. The family owned businesses now includes […]

Flatland Development Group

A Penchant for Entrepreneurship   By Joey lee The Delta, and all of north Mississippi for that matter, could not wish for a better advocate than it has in the Flatland Development Group, a dynamic enterprise founded and led by visionary entrepreneur, Andy O’Bryan. O’Bryan’s roots run deep in the Delta soil. Having grown up […]

Colleen Buyers

By Lyndsi naron Colleen Buyers, Founder of Shared Experiences in Clarksdale, is changing the way the world looks at the agriculture industry. Raised in both San Francisco, CA and Vancouver, BC, Buyers loves to travel and had seen all fifty states by the time she was thirty.  Buyers attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, for […]

A Little Off the Square 

Lumber & Liquidation Serving Tunica Since April, 2023  By jennifer Minyard P K. Miller and her husband Ed are no strangers to running a business. After successfully running the Levee Commissary for seven and a half years, they were ready for a break. “After we sold the restaurant Ed was restless,” says Miller. “He wanted […]

Illusions & Accessories LLC

Computer Service, Security Equipment and Much More  By Catherine Kirk For the past twenty-five years, Illusions and Accessories LLC in Greenwood has grown into a company that handles not just personal home computers, but the management of several business networks as well.   Although they are located in the Delta, Illusions and Accessories LLC is […]

Boss Fox Estate Sales

Delta Couple Have Become Known As Experts By Jack Criss Cleveland residents and husband and wife, Bob and Wilma Wilbanks, are pharmacists by training and trade but have turned their second career into a fascinating profession that benefits families all over the Delta. As owners of Boss Fox Estate Sales, LLC the Wilbanks’ travel the […]

Courtney Phillips

By Becky Gillette Growing up in Moorhead, one of nine children of the late Dr. A.M. Phillips and his wife Jaquie, Courtney Phillips, South Sunflower County Hospital CEO,  had his sights set on becoming a farmer.  But, Phillips was good with numbers, so his college advisors steered him towards accounting.  “I always wanted to be […]