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Orgill, Inc. is an American independent hardware distributor with headquarters in Collierville, Tennessee. It is the world's largest independently owned hardlines distributor. [1] [2] Founded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1847, Orgill was Memphis's oldest operating private business, before it relocated to nearby Collierville in recent years.
H. Mueller, Gun Shop building, circa 1859. Mueller Co. was founded in 1857 by Hieronymus Mueller in Decatur, Illinois as "H. Mueller, Gun Shop". [3] Mueller closed the business briefly in 1858 to prospect for gold in Colorado, but returned to his business not long after, expanding it to include sewing machine and clock repairs and the sale of hunting and fishing equipment in addition to ...
Became Chattanooga News-Free Press in 1940, Chattanooga Free Press in 1993, and Chattanooga Times Free Press in 1999 [8] The Chattanooga Star: Chattanooga 1907 1908 Chattanooga Times: Chattanooga 1869 1999 [18] The Commercial Bulletin: Jackson 1880 [15] Knoxville Gazette: Knoxville 1792 1818 [16] Knoxville Journal: Knoxville 1991 [16] Knoxville ...
Miller Industries is an American tow truck and towing equipment manufacturing company based in the Chattanooga suburb of Ooltewah, Tennessee.Its primary subsidiary, Miller Industries Towing Equipment Inc., manufactures a variety of light- to heavy-duty wreckers, car carriers, and rotators under several brand names, including Century, Vulcan, Chevron, and Holmes.
During World War II, the company produced pontoon boats and other equipment for the US Navy. [2] The company introduced the Dempster Dumpmaster, the first front-loading garbage truck, in the 1950s. The Dempster Brothers plant on Springdale Avenue in Knoxville consisted of eleven buildings on 27 acres (11 ha), and employed 450 workers. [4]
Hohenberg Bros. Co. is a cotton trading company with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1978, Julian Hohenberg sold the company to Cargill Inc and it was renamed Cargill Cotton . History
James Gilbert Sterchi (June 23, 1867 – December 9, 1932) was an American businessman, best known as the cofounder and head of the furniture wholesaler, Sterchi Brothers Furniture Company. At its height, Sterchi Brothers was the world's largest furniture store chain, [ 1 ] with sixty-five stores across the southeastern United States and a ...
The Tennessee Press Association recognized the Times Free Press as the best newspaper in Tennessee in 2002. One year later, Editor & Publisher magazine named the Times Free Press as one of 10 newspapers in the United States "doing it right". [16] In May 2013, the paper bought a new offset printing press to replace its flexography printing press.