One-Stop Shop: Job-skills training center planned for Memphis
The Memphis One-Stop Center is an accelerated training center that will produce credentialed job candidates for the region’s job market each year.
Topic: Greater Memphis Chamber
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December 2023
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Mayor-elect and economic leaders discuss development and BlueOval City
Economic development has surged in the Memphis area following the COVID-19 pandemic-induced slowdown. That was the message at a seminar hosted by The Daily Memphian Thursday, Nov. 30.
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Trial for suspect in chamber CEO killing delayed again
The trial delay announcement acted as an anti-climactic conclusion to two days of hearings Wednesday and Thursday about what evidence would be allowed at trial and what experts would be allowed to speak.
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November 2023
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A $21M federal grant could change Memphis’ economy
The University of Memphis, Greater Memphis Chamber, Moore Tech and others are partnering on what will be known as UpSkill MidSouth.
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Chamber’s new Academy of Innovation for Memphis continues ‘concierge-level services’
To celebrate the launch of AIM, the Chamber is offering free efficiency assessment to its members who are at the Board of Advisors and Board of Governors levels.
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August 2023
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Oui, c’est vrai! MIM chooses France as 2024 honored country
The choice is the first by the Greater Memphis Chamber. France was last honored in 1990 by Memphis In May.
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Chamber takes over Memphis in May international activities
The Memphis in May International Festival was founded to promote foreign business investment in the city. The tradition will continue with the Greater Memphis Chamber announcing the 2024 honored country next week.
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Memphis mayoral candidates share public-safety plans at Chamber forum
The Greater Memphis Chamber forum drew six of the seven major contenders for mayor.
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July 2023
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Greater Memphis Chamber travels to New York, shares Bluff City’s story
Chamber leadership met with media representatives in the Big Apple to discuss Memphis’ robust economic development pipeline, as well as the area’s workforce diversity.
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Local management and finance sector could grow by as much as 5% by 2027
The Greater Memphis Chamber found that the management of companies and enterprises sector saw employment growth of 24% in the last five years.
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June 2023
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Memphis Chamber CEO lays out plans for economic growth at Mid-Year Chairman’s Forum
Year to date, the Chamber says its efforts have helped land six development projects, including the news that Richardson International plans to invest $220 million to upgrade its Wesson Oil plant in Midtown.
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Memphis Chamber’s teacher externship program fuses business and education
Through the program, teachers will be immersed in two weeks of job shadowing, facility tours and hands-on activities at a Memphis business related to their field of teaching.
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May 2023
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Memphis’ health care and life science industry grows despite pandemic
“When we say we have the highest concentration of Black talent in health care and life science, the companies we’re recruiting to Memphis sit up and pay attention,” said Gwyn Fisher, chief economic development officer of the Greater Memphis Chamber.
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Optum at Home CEO to lead Memphis Chamber’s Chairman’s Circle
The Chamber announced the Circle’s new leadership on Thursday, May 4, including the selection of Bill Dunavant as vice chair.
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April 2023
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Chamber study: Memphis still leads U.S. in supply chain and logistics
The supply chain and logistics industry’s workforce has grown 25% over the past decade in the Memphis area.
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February 2023
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Chamber confirms shift to advanced manufacturing, touts diversity on WKNO
The chief economic development officer of the Greater Memphis Chamber said on “Behind The Headlines” that companies are seeking out the city’s diversity when looking to expand or relocate.
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Chamber announces Prosper Memphis initiative: It’s Memphis vs. errrbody
The Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce shared the Prosper Memphis 2030 initiative, aimed at creating 50,000 more jobs and improving STEM vocational training for minority residents.
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January 2023
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Arvato Memphis focuses on logistics for medical device manufacturing
“As a logistics company, you have to have a footprint in Memphis.”
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Junior Achievement opens Binghampton HQ
Designed for fifth- and sixth-grade students, JA’s BizTown program combines in-class learning with a day-long visit to the simulated town where elementary schoolers operate banks, manage restaurants, write checks and vote for mayor of their “town.”
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December 2022
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Water pressure returns to some businesses while others wait
Many businesses are operational now that water pressure has returned to restrooms and other facilities.
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Townsend: Hopes for ‘a renaissance of advanced manufacturing in Memphis’
On “Behind the Headlines,” the incoming president and CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber Ted Townsend called it a “vast change” from being a magnet for logistics and distribution.
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September 2022
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Selling Memphis: When your city’s in the spotlight for the wrong reasons
Recent crime in Memphis has made national, and even international, headlines. Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Ted Townsend can’t change that. But, as he continues to promote Memphis, he sees confirmation that those crimes don’t define the city.
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Memphis medical device sector boasts nearly $4.1 billion impact
A new report shows the Greater Memphis area’s medical device industry, which has a nearly $4.1 billion yearly impact on the local economy, added nearly 2,000 jobs and grew its economic output by $1.4 billion since 2015.
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Chamber advocating support for third Memphis bridge
TDOT said economic benefits related to a third bridge would include lower transportation costs for goods, enhanced productivity and competitiveness for Memphis area businesses and new employment opportunities in the region.
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August 2022
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Opinion: Growth creates opportunity for Memphis workforce
Our economy is on the precipice of historic growth and it is critical that we develop an ecosystem that creates upward mobility for all, says the Greater Memphis Chamber’s president for workforce development.
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