There are 37 article(s) tagged Employment:

• March 2019

  • Mustang Café teaches life skills to Germantown’s Exceptional Students

    Germantown's Exceptional Students are serving meals at Houston High's Mustang Café. The goal is to help the students with special needs gain skills for employment.

    By Abigail Warren March 29, 2019

• January 2019

  • FedEx sets first job fair of New Year to bolster hub workforce

    FedEx's first job fair of 2019 is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 12, near the FedEx Express hub at Memphis International Airport. The company says 500 jobs are available.

    By Wayne Risher January 09, 2019

• December 2018

  • Indigo Ag acquires ag-tech firm with satellite imaging, artificial intelligence

    Ag-tech firm Indigo Ag has bought a company that uses satellites and artificial intelligence to operate a “living map’’ of the world’s food supply, Indigo Ag announced Thursday.

    By Tom Bailey December 13, 2018

  • Wright Medical to start expansion in Arlington, hire 30 more

    Wright Medical Group N.V. will build a $13 million expansion to its Arlington manufacturing facility and hire an additional 30 people, the company revealed on Monday.

    By Tom Bailey December 10, 2018

• November 2018

  • Jobs center moves to Midtown

    Workforce Investment Network is moving its central employment center from Downtown to Midtown, at 155 Angelus.

    By Tom Bailey November 30, 2018

  • Wiseacre to double jobs, expand distribution with Downtown brewery

    A new, larger Wiseacre brewery Downtown would enable the Memphis company to double its full-time employment and expand distribution of its craft beer initially into all of Alabama as well as Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. “We’re in seven states full-time,’’ co-founder Kellan Bartosch said Friday of Wiseacre Brewing Co.'s current footprint. “And we’ve had conversations with markets all over.’’

    By Tom Bailey November 25, 2018

• October 2018

  • Another neighborhood grocery, Montesi’s, will close

    Neighborhood grocery Montesi’s announced this week that it will close by the end of October, becoming the second independent grocery in two weeks to shut its doors along the hard-hit Summer Avenue corridor.

    By Tom Bailey October 20, 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

  • DeSoto 55 erects first two buildings, lands first tenant

    The first two buildings in the new DeSoto 55 Logistics Center have been completed and the first tenant has leased 200,000 square feet, developer Core5 Industrial Partners announced Monday.

    By Tom Bailey October 16, 2018

  • Maker of foam-protected packaging doubles its work space

    A new Memphis company that makes foam-protected packaging is more than doubling its size after only six months in business. GLS Integrated signed a new lease to add 20,783 square feet to its existing 16,000 square feet in the warehouse building at 4841 Cromwell in Memphis’ southeast industrial district.

    By Tom Bailey October 09, 2018

• September 2018

  • Amazon seeks applicants for 1,500 Memphis jobs

    Amazon’s emerging presence in Memphis – as an employer instead of an online seller – is hitting full stride with the announcement Thursday that the world’s largest online retailer wants to hire 1,500 people at two Memphis facilities.

    By Tom Bailey September 27, 2018

  • Holiday hiring ramps up

    The holiday hiring season is in full swing in Memphis, where thousands of people work to distribute products around the nation and world.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff September 21, 2018