For our third annual Best Places to Work issue, local employers worked through an exhaustive survey process run by the Best Companies Group, which was founded 18 years ago. Since its inception, Best Companies Group has established over 70 Best Places to Work programs throughout the United States and internationally.
by EDGE* Year established: 2014
by Mark Kennedy* Year established: 1986
by Bob Gary* Year established: Mauldin & Jenkins began in 1918 in Albany, Georgia, and entered the Chattanooga market in 2013 when it merged with Hazlett, Lewis & Bieter, LLC, a Chattanooga accounting firm started in 1943.
by Dave Flessner* Year established: Pinnacle began in 2000 and acquired CapitalMark Bank in Chattanooga in 2015.
by Dave Flessner* Year established: 1987
by Mike Pare* Year established: 1994
by Bob Gary* Year established: 2016
by Mary Fortune* Year Established: 1887
by Mark Kennedy* Year established: 1957
by Mark Kennedy* Year established: 2012
by Dave Flessner* Year established: 1986 (as Chattanooga CARES); name changed 2019
by Bob Gary* Year established: 2019, with a rebrand in 2020
by Staff Report* Year Established: 2005
by Mike Pare* Year established: 2009
by Mike PareWhen Eric Fuller took over U.S. Xpress from his father, Max, in 2017, the younger Fuller began taking steps to improve freight efficiency and lower driver turnover at Chattanooga's biggest trucking company and one of the nation's largest long-haul trucking companies.
by Dave FlessnerIn a nation of consumers plagued by supply shortages for a wide array of goods and inflation at 40-year highs, Judy Ann Wilson is cutting it close to keep her salon stocked.
by Bob GaryAt some point, as the businesses just kept proliferating, Ronald Ramsey and Chad Eichelberger started making a list.
by Mary FortuneTheir 12-and-a-half acre homestead in Villanow, Georgia, is the perfect place for Joe Hader's growing family, his home-based business, and his outdoor inclinations, but Hader wasn't always sure it would work out.
by Mary FortuneWhen Tennessee's economic developers began recruiting Finland-based Nokian Tyres, they started with 80 sites.
by Mike PareAs shopping malls went up in sprawling, small-town suburbs, and downtown business districts grew quiet, the buildings sat empty for decades. The soaring ceilings and vast windows, the wide beams of timber, the heavy red brick walls gathered dust.
by Mary FortuneBusiness owners who relied on Paycheck Protection Program funds to keep going during the pandemic say the forgivable federal loans carried them through the crisis, but the lessons of the last two years have changed the way they think about the future.
by Mary FortuneFor Tina Hodges, and for the state of Tennessee, the gamble appears to have paid off.
by Jay Greeson