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Transportation & Logistics
FedEx has rolled out a new shipping option for online retailers that caters to a consumer preference for evening shopping. -
Business
Interactive Solutions acquired by global audiovisual firm
Interactive Solutions Inc., a Memphis-based audiovisual and videoconferencing provider, has been acquired by a global audiovisual technology firm. -
Business
FUNdraising Good Times: What a feasibility study can reveal
How brave are you, and what are you willing to learn and act on in order to grow your fundraising? If you have courage you may be ready for a fundraising feasibility study. -
Business
Guerrilla Sales & Marketing: Alexa, read my email
Smart home voice assistant usage is on the rise. According to Nielsen, 24 percent of U.S. households use such a device and that number is expected to double in 2019. As marketers try to optimize for the impact such devices have on search, Amazon has just rolled out a new Alexa feature for their Echo devices that will also impact email marketing. -
Health Care
Baptist partners with NY university to counter local doctor shortage
Tennessee needs an additional 140 primary care physicians to lose its designation as a Health Professional Shortage Area by the federal government. -
Business T&B parent sells power grid division to Japanese company
ABB Ltd., an international conglomerate with a Memphis-based electrical components division, has sold one of its divisions to a Japanese company. -
Business
Breaking down Indigo Ag’s jobs and salaries
Indigo Ag will be a Downtown Memphis employer where no one makes less than $64,480, where the average salary will be $92,383 and where 90 people will make $180,960. -
Real Estate
Indigo Ag’s average Memphis salary to be $92,383
The 625 new corporate jobs Indigo Ag will bring to Downtown Memphis will pay an average salary of $92,383. -
Health Care
ZeroTo510 builds on Memphis’ ecosystem in medical devices
With more than 45 medical device companies based in the area, Memphis Bioworks Foundation and its ZeroTo510 business accelerator are building on successes to cultivate medical startups and help them thrive in Memphis. -
Business
Elvis is dead, but 75 live acts could play Graceland in 2019
Graceland is teaming with entertainment giant Live Nation to book as many as 75 live music and entertainment shows at its 2,000-seat Graceland Soundstage and 464-seat Graceland Guest House Theater next year. -
Business
Tech901 course helps Rhodes College employee grow in career
With a $250 class – and hard work – Kimberly Wamble was able to grow her salary by 20 percent. -
Business
Seize the Day: It’s never too late to reclaim hope
It’s an inner-city neighborhood. It’s an area of burnt-out buildings and crack houses. The signs of homelessness, poverty and violence are etched into the neighborhood and into the faces of those who line up each day at the door to the church’s soup kitchen. It is, for most of them, the only food they have had since the day before, at the same place, at the same time. -
Business
Let’s Grow: The system is rigged against innovation
Work in innovation for more than a decade you see familiar patterns. One of the most damning, yet predictable ones is relying on the core business units to commercialize innovations outside of their core. -
Business
Plan to replace office building with car wash delayed as opposition mounts
The business proposing to replace the Century Building with a car wash sought and received a 30-day hold as City Hall received 23 opposition emails from neighbors, even from Sun Studio and a New Orleans resident. -
Real Estate
Wiseacre lands tax break to build ‘Instagramable’ Downtown taproom
A swath of vacant land is purposely part of Wiseacre Brewing Co.’s plans for its new brewery and taproom Downtown. -
Business
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. -
Real Estate
EDGE: Trucking firm moves, YMCA preps for renovations, manufacturer sells
Power Transport, a transportation and logistics company with a fleet of more than 125 trucks, is seeking a tax abatement to fix up a warehouse near the airport for its corporate offices. -
Health Care
St. Jude latest hospital to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has joined the national movement to pay employees a living wage. -
Business
Suburban retailers bank on ‘Shop Local, Buy Local’ for holidays
As the holiday shopping season enters its frenzied final week, some locally owned shops in Germantown and Collierville – like The Brooks Collection and The Truffle Pig – are enjoying brisk sales on a variety of goods created by local artists and businesses. -
Business
Graceland loses round, vows to appeal bid for arena funding
Graceland’s battle with the city and Memphis Grizzlies over a FedExForum noncompete clause is expected to continue in a higher court after a lawsuit was dismissed in Shelby County Chancery Court. -
Financial Services
New initiative works to cultivate young Memphis entrepreneurs
While summer jobs are great for kids and young adults, there is a need to help them find year-round opportunities to make money. -
Business
Silver Bells delivers joy to homebound seniors
At age 85, Alma Blankenship lives in the Bartlett house she’s called home for more than 50 years. -
Business
Fred’s sales continue to drop in Q3
Sales for Memphis-based Fred’s Inc. continue to drop, according to the discount retail chain’s third quarter earnings report. -
Business
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. -
Business
Riviana’s South Memphis rice plant expands production yet again
A South Memphis rice processing and packaging plant has filed for yet another building permit to continue a string of expansions that started eight years ago.
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