Because Amy Clinton and Brent Songer appreciated what they had when they bought Tennessee Awning Co., they knew how to make it better.
“Great tradition, great customer base, lot of repeat business,” says Songer, a Chattanooga native. “The business had been run old-school, so we felt like we had a lot to bring to the table.”
Songer’s use of the term “old-school” is apt, given that Tennessee Awning was 112 years old when he and Clinton bought it in 2016. Even so, Clinton says she and Songer realized they didn’t need to reinvent the wheel.
“But we sure tweaked it,” she says, adding that the company’s sales jumped 58 percent in 2017, the first full year she and Songer had charge.
Clinton, a Chattanooga resident since 2007, says she started out in home design and wound up building houses.