There are 160 article(s) tagged Greater Memphis Chamber:

• October 2018

  • Modern manufacturing inspires the next generation

    Last Friday, a group of students from Bolton High School toured Competition Cams Inc., a Memphis-based manufacturer of performance camshafts and other valve train parts. At the beginning of the tour, feet were dragging and yawns were contagious, but as students moved through the production process and more machinery came into play, they began to ask questions.

    By Michelle Corbet October 10, 2018

  • What’s next for the Greater Memphis Chamber?

    Three days before Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary was gunned down in Downtown Memphis, an impromptu meeting was called.

    By Michelle Corbet October 07, 2018

  • Family, community celebrate Phil Trenary’s life, career

    Thursday’s service for Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary was not a funeral. It was a celebration of life.

    By Michelle Corbet October 05, 2018

  • Police charge three with murder in Trenary’s death

    Three people have been charged in the fatal shooting of Phil Trenary, the president and CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce, who police said was gunned down during an attempted robbery Thursday night in Downtown Memphis.

    By Yolanda Jones October 01, 2018

• September 2018

  • Conaway: How can a place so warm and soulful in so many ways be so cold and soulless

    Thursday night, Memphis took a bullet.

    By Dan Conaway September 29, 2018

  • Trenary remembered as charming, passionate advocate of Memphis

    Phil Trenary was an accidental Memphian who became one of the city’s staunchest promoters.

    By Wayne Risher September 28, 2018

  • 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.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff September 28, 2018

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries and Yolanda Jones September 28, 2018

  • Barnes: Phil Trenary worked to make Memphis better. His work must continue.

    Phil Trenary was a friend who I met through work. I think this was probably true of many of Phil’s friends. They met him through work. That’s because Phil’s work, his passion for so many years, was to make Memphis, this city he loved, a better place.

    By Eric Barnes September 28, 2018

  • The case for code names: Finding the balance between competitiveness, good public policy

    These are the code names for some of the largest economic development projects in recent history — Mitsubishi Electric Power Products’ $226 million manufacturing plant on Presidents Island, Orgill Inc.’s $21 million world headquarters in Collierville and the $36 million transformation of Peabody Place into a headquarters for ServiceMaster Global Holdings.

    By Michelle Corbet September 24, 2018