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NEW ROADS, LA (WAFB) – Two Louisiana hunters moved their business headquarters to New Roads after city and parish officials each gave the owners $46,000 to relocate. Part of the plan includes more jobs and potentially more future expansion.
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Ryan and Matt Busbice are brothers from Broussard who run “Wildgame Innovations.” They invented many of the products they sell, like the deer supplement and attractant, “Acorn Rage.” The final product is anywhere from $3 to $5. Total gross proceeds for the company were $20 million last year. They recently bought out a similar Baton Rouge business called “Evolutions.” They inherited products like “Deer Cane.” The merger meant they would have to move to make room for expansion.
“In most cases when a company buys another company, you make the other company move to where you are,” said Ryan. “You know in most cases, but not this time.”
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Instead, thanks to a $92,000 incentive from the city of New Roads and Pointe Coupee Parish, the Busbice brothers moved everything to New Roads and hired 23 more employees. It may not seem like a lot, but according to the mayor of New Roads, it’s had quite an impact on his small city.
“We’re noticing a spike in our tax base,” Mayor Tommy Nelson said. “Most everybody here is local, within five miles at least,” said Collins Moore, supervisor.
Moore now lives close enough to work to go home every day and have lunch with his wife.
“I moved up fairly quickly. I got into supervision and being close to my home, like a mile away, it’s really good for me,” he said.
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Ryan said the move has been good for them, too. In a tough economy, “Wildgame Innovations” is growing. Ryan said they may try to move two of their other businesses, one in Florida and another in Texas, into their Louisiana facility.
“We want to bring as much business that we’re in here and just expand this facility further and further,” he said.
The brothers said they are now talking with Gov. Bobby Jindal about trying to get state incentive money to encourage their possible out-of-state moves. The current incentive agreement “Wildgame Innovations” made with the parish means it must remain in New Roads for at least ten years. The company has a total of 56 employees.
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