Tennessee will be having Pilot as their corporate sponsor for football...

[ronpolk]

I would be surprised if Hancock Whitney doesn't do some sort of naming rights with LSU. Part of that is some of the old Whitney people being more comfortable with that type of stuff, part of it is that picking LSU athletics over other LSU schools isn't fraught like trying to sponsor MSU but not Ole Miss or vice versa.

Yeah, I agree 100%. Probably not a lot of downside risk for Hancock Whitney sponsoring LSU. HW owns the MS coast from a banking perspective but not a huge player in the rest of MS. Hell I’d imagine a large portion of the MS coast is LSU fans anyway.

 

[The Cooterpoot]

Sanderson Farms is the biggest in Mississippi. By the way, we are #8, right above OM. This is our state. https://www.zippia.com/advice/largest-companies-in-mississippi/

Sanderson got bought by Continental Grain, so you can mark that off

 

[ronpolk]

Sanderson Farms is the biggest in Mississippi. By the way, we are #8, right above OM. This is our state. https://www.zippia.com/advice/largest-companies-in-mississippi/

Sanderson was bought a couple years ago. They are now part of Wayne Farms. I think technically the company maintains a dual headquarters in laurel… but the executive team is 100% Wayne farms and based in Georgia. They actually just announced that this year will be the last year they sponsor the PGA tournament in Jackson, which sucks because they had helped grow that event a lot.

 

[ronpolk]

Sanderson got bought by Continental Grain, so you can mark that off

Yep….

There are several large businesses in MS, just not many that I think could justify the expense of advertising to the general public. A lot of the larger businesses in MS are more geared toward business to business sales and I’m not sure it make sense for a company like that to sponsor a stadium. Howard Industries is a billion dollar revenue company and a bulldog family but not sure advertising is really needed for Howard.

 

[onewoof]

Sanderson got bought by Continental Grain, so you can mark that off

What major company is Mississippi based and hasn't sold out to send money out of our state?

 

[Dawgg]

I know we're all kind of joking about it, but the teams we'll face at home in any given season (Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Georgia, Florida, Texas, OU, A&M, and maybe Tennessee) plus the Egg Bowl means we'll be good real estate as a billboard.

 

[Dawgg]

Seriously, what about Viking?

I think Viking would be great actually and it would be a cool name and logo to drop onto the field and stadium signage.

 

[Dawgg]

Viking sold out several years ago. Its involvement in the local (Greenwood) community is a shell of what it was.

So it was. I didn't realize. They're owned by Middleby, who also makes McDonald's ice cream machines (oof). Nevermind.

 

[ETK99]

What major company is Mississippi based and hasn't sold out to send money out of our state?

The Duffs own everything in MS now, you'll need to ask them

 

[Bulldog45]

Sanderson Farms is the biggest in Mississippi. By the way, we are #8, right above OM. This is our state. https://www.zippia.com/advice/largest-companies-in-mississippi/

Sanderson Farms is now Wayne-Sanderson and headquartered in GA correct?

CARGILL AND CONTINENTAL GRAIN COMPLETE ACQUISITION OF SANDERSON FARMS MINNEAPOLIS,MN and NEW YORK CITY, NY (JULY 22, 2022)

 

[The Peeper]

I kid you not - go to the Winona Pilot and you will see for the first time in your adult life, gas station sushi.

Buce-es has had it awhile. I'm not eating that

Viking Appliances? Peavey?

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