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The Regional Economic Alliance announced goals for 2020 on Thursday, Jan. 8: 68 projects, 3,800 jobs, $1.1 billion in capital investment, $109 million to minority and women-owned enterprises.
Members of the committee spent hours hearing from MATA supporters Wednesday and will vote Monday on a $20 wheel tax increase for the transit authority.
Richard W. Smith talks about his role at the Greater Memphis Chamber, the Memphis economy and job market, and his various roles at FedEx Express with Bill Dries, reporter for The Daily Memphian, and host Eric Barnes.
Good morning, it’s Friday, Dec. 6, and for many, this is a day of preparation. For those participating in St. Jude Memphis Marathon weekend, packet pickup today is at the Landers Center in Southaven from noon to 9 p.m.
The Greater Memphis Chamber chose the Nike executive to succeed Richard W. Smith as board chairman during the annual Chairman’s Luncheon at The Peabody on Thursday.
Richard W. Smith, the outgoing chamber board chairman and FedEx Express vice president, defended the use of tax incentives for economic development gains during an extended "Behind The Headlines" interview.
Eric Miller has resigned from his post as senior vice of economic development for the Greater Memphis Chamber.
Greater Memphis Chamber CEO Beverly Robertson spoke at the Frayser Exchange Club as part of the organization's initiative to better engage with neighborhoods.
The career fair is part of a Greater Memphis Chamber effort to “upskill” 10,000 people for jobs in the Memphis market.
Students from 21 Shelby County Schools visited 15 companies for National Manufacturing Day Friday as part of an annual program designed to show students opportunities in the local manufacturing industry.
Beverly Robertson, president and CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber, brought the organization’s first stop in its new “Taking it to the Streets” initiative to Orange Mound.
Nancy Coffee is the new senior vice president of the Greater Memphis Chamber’s Chairman’s Circle, the chamber announced Friday.
The irony is this: The very process of trying to prove your value is devaluing. Yearning for more responsibility, more respect for your skills and talents, or even additional compensation can lead to burnout.
The Greater Memphis Chamber wants local companies to intentionally disrupt out-of-town relationships by bringing outside vendor contracts back to Memphis.
With the gender wage gap and sexual harassment in the workplace coming to the forefront from the #MeToo movement, a group of local executives has partnered with the Greater Memphis Chamber to launch a council focused on women in the workplace.
Companies previously opposed to hiring ex-offenders are awakening to the value of creating taxpayers rather than funding perpetrators.
Local group looks for ways to curb poverty – from providing seminars to improving skills to lobbying for better public transportation for workers to reach jobs.
Memphis business organization drops "interim" tag from president and CEO Beverly Robertson's title.
Philip Spinosa, senior vice president of the Chairman's Circle, becomes the fifth person to leave a leadership position at the Greater Memphis Chamber since last summer.
The Memphis & Shelby County Regional Economic Alliance met publicly for the first time Thursday and agreed on priorities for job growth, ranging from transportation and logistics to the music industry.
The Memphis metropolitan area posted a strong showing in job creation in 2018, exceeding its 10-year average by a wider margin than other cities. But it's not a trend, yet.
The Greater Memphis Chamber announced Tuesday Chad Matheson will join the organization as its first vice president of business intelligence.
Beverly Robertson, Gina Sweat and Melissa McFerrin give career advice to a mostly female audience at The Daily Memphian's Women and Business Seminar.
When reporting on economic development, the media often emphasizes tax breaks while downplaying the net new taxes generated. This leads many people to simply misunderstand how incentives work and can have serious repercussions for a community, as can be seen in New York with Amazon.
Is Memphis really on a roll, as some political and business leaders say? The Greater Memphis Chamber's inaugural State of the Economy program on Wednesday attempted to answer that question.