Emmanuel Tuombe grew up in Rwanda, a country of about 13 million people located in East Africa. In 2015, Tuombe opened an engineering and construction firm in Memphis, about 8,000 miles away from his native county.
XPO Logistics agreed to temporarily pull its application for tax incentives after U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen wrote to EDGE asking that deliberations be delayed because of controversy over previous XPO operations in Memphis.
Chick-fil-A on Thursday, Aug. 20, will open a restaurant inside the UTHSC Food Court at 920 Madison.
Environmental advocates including Protect Our Aquifer have sued TVA, saying new agreements for power distributors weren't properly reviewed for environmental impacts before they were put in place in 2019.
Crosstown Concourse officials ask people to post on social media their favorite photo they took at the "vertical urban village."
Start Co. and developers of The Walk on Union describe Catalyst30 as a sped-up effort to achieve in 10 years what normally would take 20 years: Make Memphis a "digital city."
The proposed Delivering for America Act would turn back the clock to Jan. 1, 2020 on changes that some critics contend are diluting U.S. Postal Service delivery results.
FedEx will charge more for residential deliveries from November into January as it handles holiday shipping volume amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Southaven Planning Commission has approved the nearly 10-acre site plan for 5665 Airways; the building design is still being revised.
Williams-Sonoma is hiring 200 for Memphis area distribution facilities and says it could need to add as many as 3,000 seasonal workers for the 2020 peak.
The Daily Memphian was recently given one last tour of the property.
The 1 million-square-foot facility is one of six that Amazon has either opened or will soon open in the Memphis area.
Baptist needs 15,000 gowns a day; to get them, it chartered a plane through FedEx, straight from China.
FedEx shares have shot up over $200 in recent trading after languishing below $150 a share earlier this summer. Supply and demand is driving the growth.
When the pandemic struck and businesses shut down to stem to the spread of the coronavirus, Whimsy Cookie didn’t pull back. Instead, the small business expanded.
DHL proposes to build a 975,000-square-foot warehouse and fill it with Yeti coolers and other Yeti products. And a California company proposes to move its headquarters to Memphis.
The executive in charge of a retail landmark in Memphis opens up about adding a new "egg" to the basket: Apartments.
Remains of lions, tigers and bears and more exotic creatures are part of a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service trove of items stopped from moving through the FedEx Express Memphis hub.
Greg Smithers joined FirstBank as Memphis market president July 7 after leaving Iberiabank, where he had been regional president for Tennessee and Arkansas.
Memphis-based AutoZone is going on a hiring spree, adding more than 20,000 full- and part-time employees.
Stein Mart operates Memphis-area stores in East Memphis, Collierville and Cordova.
Proposed Port of Memphis link in a container-on-barges shipping network could yield billions in benefits, Memphis-Shelby County economic development officials say.
Owner Finard Properties plans to demolish the two buildings anchoring Poplar Plaza’s most prominent corner, at Poplar and Highland, to build mixed-use structures.
The sprawling complex of buildings on the 9.3-acre site is being razed to remove blight and prepare the grounds for future development.