Business

Shelbyville will be hosting some of Kentucky’s best and brightest next week as representatives from towns and cities all over the state gather for the 2013 Kentucky Main Street Program Winter Conference.

This 3-day event, which will run Wednesday through Friday, will discuss the best ways forward for fostering economic and other general growth in their attendees’ communities, with the ultimate goal of making their towns the best they can be.

Farm Bureau members head to annual meeting

A group of volunteer leaders – some 500 members – from Kentucky Farm Bureau is headed to the 94th annual meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which runs Sunday through Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee.

The group will help to shape Farm Bureau’s national policy agenda for 2013, take in numerous seminars and compete for some of the country’s top agricultural honors in a variety of contests. About 8,000 attend from the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Government agencies that often offer economic incentives to attract new businesses now are giving traction to something new: giving incentives to existing businesses.

 “This is the best thing to happen to businesses around here in a long time,” Bobby Hudson told the Shelbyville City Council at Thursday’s meeting. “It’s fantastic for industries and cities because it targets the present businesses as well as new industries.”

When next you see a movie at the cinema on Breighton Circle in Shelbyville, you no longer will be making a great escape from reality.

That’s because Regal Entertainment Group of Knoxville, Tenn., one of the nation’s largest theater chains, has acquired Great Escape Theatres, including the facility in Shelbyville, in a deal announced late last year.