B&G, Danos on list of LSU grads' top revenue-generating companies

Two companies doing business locally and across the region have been named to LSU’s 2023 ROARING20 list of the top revenue-generating operations owned or led by the university’s graduates.

The companies are B&G Food Enterprises LLC of Morgan City and Danos of Gray.

Each year, the university releases its LSU100 list of the 100 fastest-growing graduate-owned or graduate-led businesses in the world. Among the businesses that apply to be considered for the LSU100, the 20 businesses that generate the most revenue make the ROARING20.

Neither B&G nor Danos made the LSU100. But Danos was 11th among the ROARING20, and B&G was No. 12.

B&G was founded in 1982 by Brenda and Gregory Hamer Sr. of Morgan City, who were married when he was still an LSU student.

The company now operates more than 150 Taco Bell restaurants in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. B&G is headquartered in Morgan City and is the largest Taco Bell franchisee in Louisiana.

Danos, founded as Danos and Curole in the 1950s as a tugboat and lift boat company, now has the second and third generations of the Danos family in the organization’s leadership. Danos offers a variety of energy production-related services and has recently branched out into renewable energy and coastal restoration.

Sealevel Construction of Thibodaux, the general contractor for the recent Bayou Chene and Bayou Teche flood control projects in St. Mary, is No. 73 on the LSU100. Another Thibodaux company, Gros Flores Positerry (GFP) Architecture & Interior Design, is No 65.

TAP Innovations, a Dallas-based software company, tops the LSU100. Turner Industries Group LLC, an industrial contractor based in Baton Rouge, is No. 1 in this year’s ROARING20.