FAST FACT
Miller Industries’ first-quarter sales of $197.2 million were up 23.9% compared to the prior-year period.
Chattanooga-based Miller Industries has bought property off Lee Highway that for decades held the T.J. Snow Co. as the growing tow-equipment maker expands its footprint.
Miller has bought about a 2-acre site at 6203 Jim Snow Way that holds a facility that the Ooltewah business will use as a parts warehouse, said Todd Harless, the company’s marketing manager.
“It’s close to where we are in Ooltewah,” said Harless about the company that now employs more than 600 workers at its local plant and from nearly 1,200 workers across its business. “It’s amazing how business is.”
Late last year, Miller Industries announced it had completed a $20 million expansion of its Ooltewah production facility, which added 175 jobs in Chattanooga over the past two years, and other major expansions at its plants in Greeneville, Tennessee and Hermitage, Pennsylvania.