The “Developing Memphis” seminar featured Chance Carlisle, CEO of Carlisle Corp.; Ernest Strickland, president and CEO of the Black Chamber of Commerce, and Stephen Townsend, licensed architect and senior project manager for UrbanARCH Associates. 

With Halloween on the horizon, local family-owned businesses Wayne’s Candy Co. and Macklin Candy Co. are working hard to stay stocked with sweet treats for candy shoppers. 

The Better Business Bureau warns businesses and nonprofits to be wary of emails with anything other than .gov in the address.

The fdx.com commerce platform offers merchants more insight into their logistics, with an eye to helping brick-and-mortar businesses compete with Amazon.

Greater Memphis Chamber launched the event three years ago, and this was the biggest yet, with vendors including insurance companies, dessert shops and a representative of Whitehaven Plaza Shopping Center.

Community Foundation for Greater Memphis and Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South announce additions to their staff.

Predevelopment activity is slowly increasing in portions of The Lake District, the troubled 160-acre mixed-use project south of the Canada Road-Interstate 40 interchange in Lakeland.

The airport is building a better understanding, one person at a time, on what it takes to expand and add cities. 

When he started flying at FedEx in 1983, Albert Glenn was one of eight Black pilots in the ranks. He’s spent the rest of his life raising money and starting training programs to help Black students interested in aviation.

Shelby County Health Department Director Dr. Michelle Taylor said risk increases with age and that women, who are more often caregivers, should make their own health a priority. 

In 2023, FedEx spent $284 million with Shelby County suppliers. Statewide, it spent $637 million with suppliers.

The new $31 million Kroger includes a Starbucks, The Little Clinic, and super-sized departments like produce, meat and seafood, as well as beauty and wellness.

In the documentary five Memphis women are interviewed about their mental health — specifically anxiety — and how they deal with challenges.

A rezoning of a site adjacent to MicroPort Orthopedics is an indication of the company’s intent not to expand its operation.

Some of the candidates at the St. Jude Career Fair Tuesday, Oct. 22, come from International Paper, which last week announced it was laying off hundreds of Memphis workers.

Also: Fun City Adventure Park opens another location in Memphis.

Eighty girls and young women registered for SHE Leads the Way, a symposium at Baptist Memorial Hospital where Jamila Smith-Young served as the special guest speaker. 

Welcome to Memphis, a subsidiary of Memphis Tourism, held its eighth annual Pick Awards Monday, Oct. 21, at Beale Street Landing to celebrate and recognize the hospitality industry’s guest-facing employees.

The nonprofit focuses on developing partnerships, services and programs to serve Memphis’ entrepreneurial community.

One closing is in Cleveland, Tennessee, part of what a Truist Securities analyst calls a process of “strategic, commercial and cultural reset.”

George Nixon begins work next week, charged with finding new sources of revenue and fostering community ownership of a charity that feeds the poor, houses the homeless and serves in disaster. 

The Church Health Scholars program bridges the gap between undergraduate education and medical school for high-performing college graduates with fewer resources and connections.

Arlington is also growing with a long-anticipated new mega Kroger opening later this month and a new Staks Pancake Kitchen that should open in the coming months.

Developer Vibrant Hotels Inc., led by Vince Vaghela, renovated the former Tenoke Building built in 1911 into the three-star Aloft hotel.