Dave Flessner

While his professional role for more than 32 years was at First Tennessee Bank, Michael Griffin has spent much of his career volunteering as a director, fundraiser or chairman for more than a dozen community groups, clubs and nonprofits. In both his hometown of Chattanooga and in his home for the past seven years in Cleveland, Griffin has been active in the local United Way, the Rotary Club, and the Chamber of Commerce, among other other nonprofits and civic groups.. He is also chairman of the region's biggest hospital, Erlanger Health System, and formerly headed the UTC Alumni Association, the Museum Center at Five Points and Junior Achievement of the Ocoee Region. In the past year, he helped raise a record $1.6 million as co-chair for the "Momentum '22" campaign for the Cleveland/Bradley County Chamber of Commerce.

Those looking for favorable tax laws and flexible options for creating and operating trusts have historically gone to states such as South Dakota, Delaware or Nevada. But with new trustee laws and the phase-out of the so-called Hall income tax on unearned income, Tennessee has emerged as one of the top states for trust formation and services.

Volkswagen profits jumped 44% in the third quarter thanks to a more profitable mix of vehicles in its lineup, but the German auto maker warned that global car markets are slowing more than expected and lowered its forecast for annual sales.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has agreed to reroute a proposed high-voltage transmission line in southern Meigs County where the utility plans to build a new $300 million system operations center in Georgetown in the next three years.

In its seventh acquisition in the past five years, the parent company of SmartBank announced Tuesday it will buy Progressive Savings Bank and its affiliated businesses for $41.4 million in cash and stock.

Unum Group reported a slight drop in its adjusted operating earnings for the third quarter compared with a year ago, missing the analysts average forecast for the period by a penny per share.

Astec Industries, Inc., facing what its new CEO says is "a challenging environment," reported a 57% drop in third quarter net income on relatively flat sales this summer.

Two years after acquiring one of Chattanooga's biggest beer distributors, Cherokee Distributing Co. is preparing to build a new distribution warehouse along Interstate 75 to help expedite delivery of its beer brands in Chattanooga and Cleveland.

Unemployment in the Chattanooga area fell last month to the lowest September rate in modern history as local employers added 7,556 jobs over the past year.

A Des Moines, Iowa, company that expanded to Chattanooga in 2016 and has grown to serve more than 20,000 workers was recognized Thursday night as the 2019 Startup of the Year business in Chattanooga.

Chattanooga's biggest bank takes on a new name Friday as it broadens its brand beyond its Tennessee horizon.

A month after the announcement of the biggest new manufacturing plant in East Chattanooga in more than a century, Chattanooga developer Bobby Adamson is making plans to build a $1.2 million apartment complex nearby.

Two brothers who promised to bring 1,000 jobs to economically distressed Bledsoe County have admitted they illegally diverted more than $3 million of state and TVA assistance to their personal accounts or other unauthorized uses, including a fraudulent scheme to sell tarps to the federal government for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico.

The developer of one of Chattanooga's biggest downtown apartment complexes plans to fight a city and county attempt to limit the tax breaks granted for the $30 million project after nearly half of the apartments were converted to vacation rental units.

A Chattanooga brewery that has already enjoyed a frothy growth in sales across Tennessee and North Georgia in its first four years secured funding Tuesday for a new yeast propagation system to further expand its offerings and footprint.

Chattanooga's redeveloping riverfront continues to progress downstream and into the Westside of downtown with the addition of another $32 million of apartments at the end of West M.L. King Boulevard.

As the weather turns colder, Chattanooga motorists and homeowners will still be enjoying cheaper energy prices this fall than what they paid a year ago.

After opening Big River Grille & Brewing Works, the STIR and State of the Confusion in downtown Chattanooga, restaurant Allen Corey and his team at Square One LLC are preparing to open a microbrewery in Marion County.

Coca-Cola reported strong third quarter sales as it makes strides with new drinks like Coca-Cola Plus Coffee and no-sugar drinks.

Mike Sarvis, the market president of Synovus Bank in Chattanooga and a former chairman of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, is leaving Chattanooga at the end of the month to return to Greenville, South Carolina where he previously worked and where his wife is from.