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September 2018
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Business The holiday hiring season is in full swing in Memphis, where thousands of people work to distribute products around the nation and world. -
Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Media Day kicks off start of NBA camp
The Memphis Grizzlies open camp on Tuesday, and in the pre-camp tradition, players, team officials and coach J.B. Bickerstaff took turns answering questions about the season. -
Memphis Grizzlies Turn Four: Our writers survey the Grizzlies as training camp opens
From time to time throughout this season, The Daily Memphian will convene a quartet of our writers, veteran Grizzlies watchers all, to bat around the questions of the moment. We’re calling it Turn Four, in tribute to the play call -- translation: get Z-Bo the bleeping ball -- that Lionel Hollins or Dave Joerger would call out whenever the Grizzlies needed to settle down and get a bucket. -
Business Movers and Shakers
Tripp Thompson has been named president of FirstBank Investment Partners, a bank investment division with offices in Tennessee and North Alabama. He succeeds president Bill Reid, who's retiring next year. Thompson comes from First Tennessee Bank, where his 31-year career included managing FTB Advisors since 1999. FirstBank's new regional headquarters will be based at the TraVure office complex in East Memphis. -
Metro Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary shot and killed Downtown
Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary was shot and killed Thursday, Sept. 27, on Front Street south of G.E. Patterson near Central Train Station. -
Public Safety Suspects in custody; unclear if connected to Trenary’s slaying
Memphis Police Department officers chased a vehicle matching the description of the truck fleeing the scene of Phil Trenary’s slaying and took two men into custody on Friday, Sept. 28.
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October 2018
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Bartlett Man, 39, killed in officer-involved shooting in Bartlett; TBI investigating
Authorities were on the scene Wednesday morning after an officer-involved shooting led to the death of a man on Stage Road near the Bartlett-Memphis border. -
Business River Inn at Harbor Town ranked No. 1 in South by Conde Nast Traveler
River Inn of Harbor Town in Downtown Memphis has been named the No. 1 Hotel in the South by international travel publication Condé Nast Traveler. -
Education Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, in Memphis Oct. 16
Eva Schloss, the stepsister and childhood friend of Anne Frank, will speak at the Michael D. Rose Theatre at the University of Memphis on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. -
Education Five local educators honored by New Memphis for excellence
New Memphis has launched its first Educators of Excellence Awards this year and announced this week the five local educators who are the inaugural 2018 honorees. -
Real Estate Crosstown Concourse receives prestigious preservation award
The Crosstown Concourse renovation is one of three national winners of the 2018 preservation awards bestowed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the trust announced Monday. -
Business Movers & Shakers
University of Tennessee Health Science Center researchers Francesca-Fang Liao, John V. Cox and Brian M. Peters recently received grants for their work. -
Business Coming attractions: The Daily Memphian will be rolling out several new features over the coming weeks and months
As The Daily Memphian enters its second month as a publication, we wanted to thank you for reading us and for subscribing to our email editions and the site. We appreciate it immensely. -
Business Movers & Shakers
Cindy Cleveland has joined Diversified Trust, an independent comprehensive wealth management firm, as principal and chief talent officer. In that role, she is responsible for talent development and working closely with executive management in the development of internal practices that align with the firm’s strategic priorities and culture. Cleveland has more than 19 years’ experience in human resources. Prior to joining Diversified Trust, she served as vice president of talent management and leadership development at First Tennessee Bank. -
Real Estate Video: ‘Developing Memphis’ seminar highlights
The Daily Memphian's Developing Memphis seminar featured Tommy Pacello, President of the Memphis Medical District Collaborative; Paul Young, the Director of Housing and Community Development for the city of Memphis; and McLean Wilson, Principal of Kemmons Wilson Companies. -
Financial Services Trustmark earnings rise 5.9 percent year-over-year in Q3
Trustmark Corp. reported net income of $36.3 million in the third quarter of 2018, or diluted earnings per share of 54 cents, up 5.9 percent year-over-year. -
Health Care Youth Villages takes its YVLifeSet model to four more markets
Memphis-based Youth Villages is awarding $10 million in grants to four jurisdictions to expand services for transition-age foster youth through its YVLifeSet model. -
Transportation & Logistics FedEx volunteers bundle ‘just the basics’ for storm victims
About 110 FedEx volunteers gathered in Memphis Friday, Oct. 26, to package more than 3,600 hygiene kits to replenish the warehouses of Heart to Heart International following a deadly tropical storm season. -
Public Safety Memphis attorney Marvin Ballin dies at 87
Memphis attorney Marvin Ballin, founder of a criminal defense law firm that includes his son, daughter and grandson, died Tuesday morning.
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November 2018
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Business Movers & Shakers
Susan Hadley Maynor, vice president of economic development for the Greater Memphis Chamber, was named president of the Tennessee Economic Development Council for 2018-2019. -
Business Speakers tout advantages of diversity at Leadership Memphis breakfast
Five top executives from five large businesses in Memphis participated in a panel discussion Friday on the importance of building and maintaining diversity in the workplace. -
Collierville Collierville: Incumbent aldermen secure easy wins; Warren takes open school board seat
Incumbent aldermen Maureen Fraser and Tom Allen were elected to new four-year terms Tuesday with easy victories in the Collierville town elections. -
Business Movers & Shakers
Vaco Memphis has hired three employees for its supply chain and logistics team. Andy Gliemann and Victoria McDaniel will lead client relations and business development efforts for the division, including building and maintaining relationships with clients throughout the Mid-South. Elise Ladley will connect top talent and industry leaders with job placements at supply chain and logistics companies in the region. -
Suburbs Bartlett: McDonald, Elliott win re-election in only contested races on Bartlett ballot
Bartlett incumbent Mayor Keith McDonald and Position 2 Alderwoman Emily Elliott were returned to office Tuesday with easy victories in the suburb’s municipal election. -
Business Leaders propose joint venture for Chamber, EDGE
Local government and business leaders have joined together to propose new changes to the economic development process, which includes a new joint venture to oversee how the Greater Memphis Chamber and the EDGE board recruit new jobs.
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