Nominations Are Now Open for The Top 50!

Who will make the 2010 list of The Lagniappe Imperial Calcasieu Top 50 Privately Held Businesses? Lagniappe Magazine and First Federal Bank are now seeking those prestigious businesses that will be featured in our Top 50 issue, published June 3rd. Please fill out the form below and submit your entry online today!

Last year's Imperial Calcasieu Top 50 Privately Held Businesses:

  1. Central Crude
  2. Superior Supply & Steel
  3. Navarre Chevrolet
  4. Stine Lumber Co.
  5. Pumpelly Oil
  6. Martin Automotive Group
  7. Solar Supply Corp.
  8. Mark Dodge
  9. Cameron Communications
  10. Bubba Oustalet
  11. Port Aggregates, Inc.
  12. R & R Construction
  13. Aeroframe Services, LLC.
  14. AllStar Pontiac GMC
  15. LeeVac Industries, LLC
  16. Alfred Palma, Inc.
  17. Theromoplastic Services
  18. Bassette Developmenet
  19. Brask, Inc., IEE
  20. Gulf Island Shrimp
  21. Lee Dee Wholesale
  22. ReCon Management Services
  23. Gray Nissan Ford Mercury
  24. Health Systems 2000
  25. Kennison Forest Production
  26. Lake Charles Auto Auction
  27. Levingston Engineers
  28. McDonald's of Lake Charles
  29. Century Group
  30. LA Ash, Inc.
  31. Miller Livestock Markets, Inc.
  32. OilQuip, Inc.
  33. O'Neal Feeder Supply
  34. The Rush Companies
  35. Calcasieu Mechanical Contractors
  36. Freshko Foodservice, Inc.
  37. Honda of Lake Charles
  38. Oasis Food, Inc.
  39. Sabine Pools & Spas
  40. Southland Coins and Collectibles
  41. Cycles & More
  42. Dubois Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
  43. Eagle Electric Machinery
  44. J & J Exterminating Co., Inc.
  45. Johnson Funeral Homes
  46. Lloyd Lauw Collision Repair
  47. Northfork Enterprises
  48. S & M Family Outlet
  49. Tulco II, LLC
  50. Lake Charles Music, LLC

To be eligible for nomination to the Top 50, businesses must be privately held within the 5-parish Imperial Calcasieu region (Cameron, Calcasieu, Beauregard, Allen, and Jefferson Davis). Companies that are owned by national or international concerns are not eligible (e.g. Citgo, Conoco-Phillips, Home Depot, etc....) Similarly, financial institutions owned by larger companies, or if there is a public market, however limited, in the stock of the bank, are also ineligible. Savings and loans and other mutual associations are also ineligible.

Nominate your business on-line by filling out the questionnaire below. You can report a gross revenue range for 2009 or use actual revenue figures. Please note, we compile the "Top 10" according to actual revenue figures and continue the list by in alpha order within each revenue range.