There are 122 article(s) tagged Greater Memphis Chamber:

• August 2023

  • 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. 

    By Bill Dries August 31, 2023

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries August 26, 2023

  • Memphis mayoral candidates share public-safety plans at Chamber forum

    The Greater Memphis Chamber forum drew six of the seven major contenders for mayor.

    By Bill Dries August 17, 2023

• July 2023

  • 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.

    By Rob Moore July 16, 2023

  • 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.

    By Rob Moore July 06, 2023

• June 2023

  • 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.

    By Rob Moore June 09, 2023

  • 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.

    By Alicia Davidson June 08, 2023

• May 2023

  • 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. 

    By Aisling Mäki May 30, 2023

  • 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.

    By Rob Moore May 04, 2023

• April 2023

  • 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.

    By Rob Moore April 19, 2023

• February 2023

  • 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. 

    By Bill Dries February 18, 2023

  • 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.

    By Neil Strebig February 16, 2023

• January 2023

  • Arvato Memphis focuses on logistics for medical device manufacturing

    “As a logistics company, you have to have a footprint in Memphis.”

    By Rob Moore January 25, 2023

  • 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.” 

    By Alicia Davidson January 21, 2023

• December 2022

  • Water pressure returns to some businesses while others wait

    Many businesses are operational now that water pressure has returned to restrooms and other facilities. 

    By Aisling Mäki December 28, 2022

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries December 03, 2022

• September 2022

  • 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. 

    By Don Wade September 25, 2022

  • 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. 

    By Aisling Mäki September 20, 2022

  • 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.

    By Rob Moore September 06, 2022

• August 2022

  • 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.

    By Amity Schuyler August 23, 2022

  • Townsend: With BlueOval City, ‘everyone is looking at us now’

    Incoming Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Ted Townsend spoke Wednesday, Aug. 10, at the Collierville Chamber of Commerce’s monthly luncheon.

    By Abigail Warren August 11, 2022

• July 2022

  • ‘Taking it to the streets:’ Memphis Chamber tours Orange Mound

    The stop in one of the first communities in the nation built by and for African Americans is part of a series of listening tours the Greater Memphis Chamber is holding. 

    By Daja E. Henry July 16, 2022

  • Outgoing Memphis Chamber CEO looks back on her tenure

    Outgoing Greater Memphis Chamber Beverly Robertson talks on “Behind The Headlines” about the chamber’s role in the “fourth industrial revolution” represented by the Ford plant in Haywood County and what that means for “legacy” businesses not yet in that revolution. 

    By Bill Dries July 16, 2022

  • Memphis Chamber honors workplace conditions, hiring, diversity and inclusion

    Five companies received inaugural Gold Standard Certification, a program created via the chamber’s Protest to Progress initiative.

    By Neil Strebig July 12, 2022

• June 2022

  • Inked: Highlander in East Memphis sells for $2.7M, updates at Felicia Suzanne’s in South Main

    This week’s Inked includes updates on two businesses leaving Downtown Memphis, Felicia Suzanne’s new space, a new apartment complex on Front Street and new ownership for the Highlander Apartments.

    By Neil Strebig June 29, 2022