There are 174 article(s) tagged Greater Memphis Chamber:

• January 2019

  • Media sales veteran takes new Greater Memphis Chamber role

    A 20-year broadcast media sales manager has accepted a newly created position at the Greater Memphis Chamber. 

    By Michelle Corbet January 17, 2019

  • SVP resignation continues Chamber’s search for talent

    Last year, the chamber’s senior leadership team made a near 180. With another senior vice president leaving for AutoZone, the turnover streak continues. 

    By Michelle Corbet January 09, 2019

• December 2018

  • Greater Memphis Chamber takes ‘opportunity for all’ approach in 2019

    After the Bluff City’s political and business dignitaries filled the Grand Ballroom at The Peabody, the music died down and the mood became slightly somber, as attendees knew the Greater Memphis Chamber’s president and CEO would not be there.

    By Michelle Corbet December 07, 2018

• November 2018

  • Shelby sites placed in state industrial development program

    Seven Shelby County tracts with industrial development potential are being targeted as part of a state program to build the county’s portfolio of marketable property.

    By Sam Stockard November 15, 2018

  • Advisory board to hold chamber, EDGE accountable

    During the spring, controversy sparked a joint meeting of the Memphis City Council and Shelby County Board of Commissioners.

    By Michelle Corbet November 09, 2018

  • 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.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 08, 2018

• October 2018

  • Beverly Robertson tapped as interim leader of Greater Memphis Chamber

    For at least a year, the Greater Memphis Chamber will be led by an African-American woman whose deep roots in the city are matched by a stellar track record in business and nonprofit worlds.

    By Wayne Risher October 24, 2018

  • Downtown agency to posthumously honor Phil Trenary in rescheduled awards

    The Downtown Memphis Commission will posthumously honor Phil Trenary during an Oct. 26 awards program that was postponed after Trenary’s death.

    By Wayne Risher October 20, 2018

  • Chamber leaders talk public policy and private competition

    Public policy and competition in the business world can co-exist with business taking the lead in creating new jobs, says one of the new set of leaders of the Greater Memphis Chamber.

    By Bill Dries October 19, 2018

  • Speculative industrial developer breaks ground, dry spell for Memphis

    An industrial developer on Wednesday broke ground, ending an 11-year drought during which no speculative, top-grade distribution centers were built in Memphis.

    By Tom Bailey October 18, 2018

  • Guest column: A different vision for economic development

    You have probably heard some public discourse around the use of code names for projects seeking incentive packages in our community.

    By Eric Miller October 17, 2018

  • In Phil Trenary’s memory let’s redouble our efforts to move our city forward

    This morning I rode my bike east on the Greenline and through Shelby Farms thinking about how perfect the fall morning is and what a great asset we have in our bike paths, parks and recreational areas.

    By D. Bryan Jordan October 17, 2018

  • Trenary’s message: ‘I say you can either complain about it or you can make it better.’

    “The job is basically getting 7,000 people to stop bickering and remember why they got into this business,” he said stoically before breaking into his trademark grin. “Should be pretty simple.” A recent acquisition and a second pending acquisition were about to triple the size of the “family” as Phil Trenary lovingly referred to his Pinnacle Airlines employees, and Phil understood his culture was falling behind. “We need to stop behaving like separate airlines and start acting like one.”

    By Eric Epperson October 17, 2018

  • Chamber chairman disagrees with Harris’ request for public input on Trenary’s successor

    Greater Memphis Chamber chairman Richard Smith says the organization welcomes input from local elected officials on the process of replacing its president and CEO, but the Chamber does not need to make it a public process.

    By Omer Yusuf October 12, 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