It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

Sometimes entrepreneurs find fame and fortune by inventing a new product or service that creates an entire new industry. Bill Gates, for example, invented the personal computer. Steve Jobs created Apple products. Elon Musk is building rockets and electric cars. But sometimes, success in business comes from less ambitious successes. Like addressing bad odors. Or figuring out how to make it easier to make a bed. Bathroom Maria Bhacca is CEO of Aerowest International, a Baton Rouge based company that specializes in scent marketing and odor control for some of the country’s most prestigious hotels, hospitals, and universities. Aerowest manufacturers and services its own line of professional air freshening dispensers and 50 fragrances. Aerowest is nearly 140 years old and was originally based in New York until 2012, when Maria and her husband bought the business and relocated its headquarters to Baton Rouge. Since then, they have slowly grown Aerowest throughout the country. Maria didn’t imagine hersel