Ellis Smith joined the Chattanooga Times Free Press in January 2010 as a business reporter.
His beat includes the flooring industry, Chattem, Unum, Krystal, the automobile market, real estate and technology.
Ellis is from Marietta, Ga., and has a bachelor’s degree in mass communication at the University of West Georgia.
He previously worked at UTV-13 News, Carrollton, Ga., as a producer; at the The West Georgian, Carrollton, Ga., as editor; and at the Times-Georgian, Carrollton, Ga.; as a reporter.
Contact Ellis at 423-757-6315 or esmith@timesfreepress.com.
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Business owners say they faced a choice during the recession. Adapt or disappear. Owners across the Chattanooga area say they decided to overhaul their business models to survive the Great Recession and its aftermath, and to match the persistent forward march of technological progress.
The pharmacy renovation at Memorial Hospital Glenwood is expected to be complete in April, while the pharmacy at Memorial Hospital Hixson is expected to be completed in March, according to hospital spokesman Brian Lazenby.
Jay Jolley, CEO of EMJ Corp., watched his business shrink by half between 2007 and 2009. The construction company was considered among the most accomplished shopping mall builders, with 80 percent of all work going toward large retail projects that brought in income of some $1 billion in 2007.
When the U.S. and state governments started to run out of money during the recession, new road construction slowed down dramatically.
The U.S. Treasury has appointed an Ohio banking expert to the board of Chattanooga-based First Security Group, the holding company for FSGBank. Robert R. Lane will also serve on the board of FSGBank, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Dollar bill in hand, U.S. Small Business Administration District Director Walter Perry lifted the microphone to his mouth as more than 40 regional bankers looked on.
The families that own U.S. Xpress Enterprises have picked a successor to the late Patrick Quinn, who founded the company in 1985 along with the current chairman and CEO, Max Fuller.
Chattanooga-based Unum Group announced Monday it is ending sales of its group long-term care insurance in the midst of improved operating results in the fourth quarter.
A company involved in an unlicensed payday lending operation recently lost an early legal bid to silence some of its former employees.
