The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry today announced the companies and individuals it has selected as winners of its 2023 Free Enterprise Awards.

BATON ROUGE, LA - Young Businessperson of the Year: David Slaughter has grown Orion Laboratories into the state's largest independent medical testing facility.

BATON ROUGE, LA - Forty Under 40: David Slaughter | 37, CEO and Co-founder, Orion Laboratories

BATON ROUGE, LA - As students in Louisiana have returned to school from summer break so has COVID, with cases among school-age children nearly quadrupling while other age groups show little change.

BATON ROUGE, LA - Orion Laboratories, a Baton Rouge medical testing company, has purchased the CitiPlace Centre II office building for nearly $6.9 million and plans to consolidate its operations there.

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Orion Laboratories has teamed up with Envoc and is now offering COVID-19 test results in the LA wallet app. Envoc is a Louisiana-based software company and developer of the state’s digital driver’s license.

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Efforts are underway to stop the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant in local schools. The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board voted to require staff to show their vaccine status and get tested weekly for the virus.