Independently-owned businesses climb despite business set back during the pandemic

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Independently-owned businesses climb despite business set back during the pandemic.

Researchers say even though the pandemic did cause issues for businesses during the year 2020, that doesn’t mean it stopped entrepreneurs from taking matters into their own hands.

The Census Bureau has been tracking this for a while, and already there are more new businesses since last month. That even occurred here in the capital region, and analysts are expecting more independently owned business in the future.

For some during the pandemic, since they had a lot of time on their hands, they decided to start a business.

At least that’s what 21 year old, college student, Brock Miller chose to do when he first started working on kayaks back in July.

“People were going fish more than ever and they were breaking stuff more than ever on their kayaks. So, a lot of guys knew that I worked in a retail store in the past, so they knew I could do this…

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