The Greater Memphis Chamber announced the addition of Robert “Bobby” S. White, II, as the new Chief Public Policy Officer. 

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The Greater Memphis Chamber announced today the addition of Nancy Coffee as the new Senior Vice President of the Chairman’s Circle – a group of visionary, civic-minded business leaders committed to moving Memphis forward with a clear and focused growth agenda designed to create more economic prosperity and improve the quality of life in the Greater Memphis region. Coffee will officially assume the role Tuesday, September 3^rd.

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This fall, the Chamber will begin the Taking it to the Streets initiative, a Grassroots campaign designed to inform community residents about the work of the Chamber. The campaign will involve one or two meetings in neighborhoods at community centers, CDC offices, Churches, or other community spaces.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Tuesday, 6/28/22) – After more than 34 years as the leading source of efficiency and productivity training for the region, the Mid-South Quality Productivity Center will close on June 30.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Thursday, June 24, 2022) – Keeping ‘prosperity for all’ at the core of its mission, the Greater Memphis Chamber Board of Directors unanimously voted Thursday to name Chief Economic Development Officer Ted Townsend as President & CEO Beverly Robertson’s successor.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Wednesday, 3/9/22) – For only the second time in the past decade, the Greater Memphis economy grew at a faster pace than the U.S. economy in 2021, according to a new report from the Greater Memphis Chamber’s Center for Economic Competitiveness (CFEC).

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 Board also approves Greg Duckett and Duncan Williams as vice chairmen 

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Memphis, TN (May 3, 2021) For the second year in a row, the economic development efforts of EDGE and the Greater Memphis Chamber have been recognized as a one of the nation’s top 25 economic development partnerships receiving the prestigious Mac Conway Award for Excellence in Economic Development.

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Memphis, Tenn. (Dec. 18, 2019) – Following the sale of the Emerge Memphis building earlier this year, Emerge and Epicenter today announced an investment of $1.3 million in a fund to help local tech startups launch and scale.

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