After Katrina - Business Guide Established for New Orleans Businesses Displaced by Storm
The New Orleans Business Guide has been established at allneworleans.com. This guide will enable New Orleans and metropolitan New Orleans businesses to notify customers, vendors and others of their current status.
(PRWEB) September 6, 2005 -- A New Orleans Business Guide has been
established at All New Orleans.com (http://allneworleans.com). The website will be used as a world
wide way for business owners and professionals, displaced by Hurricane Katrina,
to notify customers, employees, clients, vendors and other interested parties of
their current whereabouts. Businesses owners and professionals can list their
New Orleans address and contact information in addition to any information about
their current location and operating status. More than
90% of all businesses in New Orleans and the metropolitan area are small
business entities and, in New Orleans proper, 100% of that number has been
displaced by the storm.
The All New Orleans.com website is a free
service and promises updates to pages as necessary, for as long as
needed. The website is owned and operated by Hughes
Display Group, Inc., a Florida corporation. Kim Hughes,
President of Hughes Display Group, was an 18 year resident of New Orleans with
family and friends in the area who were also deeply affected by Hurricane
Katrina. “My son lost his home, his possessions, his job, and his childhood
memories – the very foundation of his life – with Hurricane Katrina. The damage
to the city is catastrophic. The New Orleans I knew as home has been forever
changed. I’m heartbroken but also determined to do what I can to help restore
that very special and very unique city to some semblance of what it once was. I
was going back in November and now…who knows. I do know this – the city will
never survive without a strong, economic backbone and that backbone is small
business. It’s going to be a long haul and we have to start to bring it back
together now.”
Business owners and professionals in and around New
Orleans, who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina, are invited and
encouraged to use this service. Those who do not have access to a computer can
submit their information by phone at (850) 243-3324, by fax at 866-829-0721 or
via mail at P.O. Box 1116, Fort Walton Beach, FL, 32549-1116.
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