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Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce DEC. 2018-JAN. 2019 the MCPSS’s Superintendent Chresal Threadgill $58 M Storage Facility Announced Mobile Chamber Names Manufacturer & Innovator of the Year the business view DECEMBER 2018/JANUARY 2019 1 The first full-stack managed solutions provider. Consider IT managed. The new C Spire Business is the nation’s first ever to combine advanced connectivity with cloud, software, hardware, communications, and professional services to create a single, seamless, managed IT service portfolio. The result is smarter. Faster. More secure. From desktop to data center, we step in wherever you need us and take on your biggest technology challenges. You focus on business. cspire.com/business | 855.CSPIRE2 ©2018 C Spire. All rights reserved. 2 the business view DECEMBER 2018/JANUARY 2019 the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce DEC. 2018-JAN. 2019 | In this issue ON THE COVER Chresal Threadgill is the new superintendent for Mobile County Public Schools. His focus is on From the Publisher - Bill Sisson continuous improvement in education. See story on pg. 10. Photo by FusionPoint Media. Lessons Learned in Toulouse, France 4 News You Can Use This year the Mobile Area Obviously, Airbus has a Chamber’s Leaders Exchange huge economic impact on that 6 Kimberly-Clark Named was a very special one. For only region of France, but so does Manufacturer of the Year the second time in the more higher education. It was mind- 7 McFadden Engineering Receives than 30 years of city-to-city boggling to learn about the Innovator of the Year exchanges, our Chamber more than 100,000 students 9 Small Business of the Month: leadership traveled to an living there, attending some of 2 international destination. the top universities in France. C Wealth Strategies In October, 50 members The educational influence of 10 Get to Know Mobile’s New School from our board of directors, the colleges, universities and Superintendent, Chresal Threadgill advisors and Partners for technical schools in the area 12 Partners for Growth – Year One Growth investors spent three full days in was clearly woven into every aspect of Successes Toulouse, France, studying the reasons Toulouse’s economy. None more than the why that city is one of the fastest growing high-tech sector, which has led to an 14 Investor Focus: White-Spunner Realty metropolitan areas in all of Europe. I’m sure entrepreneurial ecosystem rivaling those 15 Guest Column: 5 Ways to Coach all the participants would agree it was a in larger cities such as Paris, London and Your Sales Staff Like A Winning fascinating city to explore, and there were Berlin. Sports Team a number of key takeaways from the trip. The presentation by the University of 17 Meet the Chamber Board of Directors Toulouse is, of course, the home of Airbus, Toulouse administration was one of the most and learning how the supplier chain and fascinating of the trip, and in particular it 25 Chamber@Work service providers have grown around the provided a long list of best-practices 26 Business Spotlight of the Month: company’s headquarters was enlightening. specifically related to talent retention and Mobile Arts Council The aviation/aerospace cluster there has recruitment. 26 Ambassador of the Month: developed gradually over the years, and it And perhaps one of the biggest “ah-ha” Megan Murdock was particularly interesting to see first-hand moments was when the Toulouse tourism how the industrial complex and commercial team discussed their focus on “business 27 Mobile Leaders Travel to airport co-exist at a site a little more than five tourism.” That hit close to home since so Toulouse, France The first full-stack miles from the city-center of Toulouse. many of the people visiting Mobile are here 28 How to Get in The Business View for business – and on business expense 30 Calendar accounts, which is good for our upscale hotel and restaurant businesses. Capitalizing on 33 Member News managed solutions provider. those deep-pocketed visitors to our city will 37 Anniversaries be a great strategic move for us as our 12-13 economy continues to prosper and grow. 38 New Members Many of the great community initiatives in Mobile have come from ideas gathered Consider IT managed. during past Leaders Exchanges. I’m the business view is published monthly, convinced the Toulouse trip will be no except for the combined issue of December/January, different. I’ll look forward to rolling up my by the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce The new C Spire Business is the nation’s first ever to combine advanced sleeves and working with all of you to put 451 Government St., Mobile, AL 36602 connectivity with cloud, software, hardware, communications, and professional these lessons to work here in our great city. 251-433-6951 www.mobilechamber.com ©2018 services to create a single, seamless, managed IT service portfolio. The result is Publisher William B. Sisson Executive Editor Leigh Perry-Herndon smarter. Faster. More secure. From desktop to data center, we step in wherever you Managing Editor Jennifer Jenkins need us and take on your biggest technology challenges. You focus on business. Copy Editor Michelle Irvin 27 Additional Writers and Editors Mike Herndon, Ashley Horn, Susan Rak-Blanchard and Carolyn Wilson Printing Services: Interstate Printing/Direct Mail Graphic Design: Wise Design Inc. cspire.com/business | 855.CSPIRE2 Advertising Account Executive: René Eiland ©2018 C Spire. All rights reserved. 251-431-8635 [email protected] the business view DECEMBER 2018/JANUARY 2019 3 NEWS you can use 12-Million Cubic Foot Cold Storage Facility Coming to Mobile business internet that is years ahead of the competition. Baltimore-headquartered officials. All of the product will Area Chamber, the facility will Mobile,” said City of Mobile MTC Logistics announced it be transiting in containers and also be able to blast-freeze Mayor Sandy Stimpson. “We will build a $58 million cold processed through APM poultry products coming from are out there every day looking storage facility between APM Terminals before or after across the Southeastern United for opportunities to recruit jobs Terminals and Mobile Aeroplex arriving at MTC Logistics. States to then export across the and families to Mobile. This at Brookley near downtown The facility is the company’s globe. This project will enhance announcement is the latest Mobile on a piece of property first project located outside the Mobile’s containerized proof that Mobile is open for The time to prepare for the future is before owned by the Alabama State Northeast. “We have been in operations to reach more business.” it arrives. Our network is ready today. Now Port Authority. The company the temperature-controlled markets throughout the world. A groundbreaking is we’re increasing business internet speed levels expects to hire between 50 and logistics business for 90 years The Mobile County expected by December, with an across the board. Experience speeds 70 full-time workers to run the and are thrilled Mobile will be a Commission is committed to estimated open date of second up to 1 gigabit over our existing network. facility, which will store imported part of our future,” said Brooks providing the roadwork needed quarter 2020. Company officials frozen pork products and Royster, president of MTC to facilitate trucking to and expect construction of the seafood coming to the U.S. for Logistics. from the facility, according to facility to take 18 months. Revolutionize your business with Mediacom. distribution. “Being able to find property commission President Connie Partners in the project include The approximately immediately adjacent to a Hudson. “MTC will be an the Alabama State Port Authority, 300,000-square-foot facility will world-class port such as Mobile important link in distributing APM Terminals, City of Mobile, be five stories tall, contain and in such close proximity to seafood and poultry that are Mobile Area Chamber of almost 12 million cubic feet of I-10 is a very unique opportunity.” so important to our economy,” Commerce, Mobile County and refrigerated space and store According to David Rodgers, she said. the State of Alabama. approximately 40,000 pallets vice president of economic “We are pleased and proud of product, according to company development for the Mobile to welcome MTC Logistics to You’ll see this symbol with stories featuring Chamber initiatives. MediacomBusiness.com 800-479-2091 Caring for health care: managing risk When state of the art is not enough – and you need cutting edge, Willis Towers Watson is there with the risk management expertise and resources to insure the health and wellbeing of the health care industry, from providers to facilities, now and in the future. willistowerswatson.com BUSINESS INTERNET BUSINESS PHONE BUSINESS TV & MUSIC 4 the business view DECEMBER 2018/JANUARY 2019 business internet that is years ahead of the competition. The time to prepare for the future is before it arrives. Our network is ready today. Now we’re increasing business internet speed levels across the board. Experience speeds up to 1 gigabit over our existing network. Revolutionize your business with Mediacom. MediacomBusiness.com 800-479-2091 BUSINESS INTERNET BUSINESS PHONE BUSINESS TV & MUSIC the business view DECEMBER 2018/JANUARY 2019 5 Kimberly-Clark Mobile members are pictured from left to right (back row) Dave Leonard, Eric Postle, Dale Kelly, Maurice Jackson, Todd Visscher, Matt Gerdeman, Lorence Johnson, Bruce McPherson and John Single (front row) Rachelle Nielsen, Fulton Garces, April Calhoun, Natalia Feijo Chuairi, Renee Bradford, Elton Davidson, Brenda Nader, Kim Samry, Cynthia Marshall, Geary Francis and Andy Carr. Kimberly-Clark Named 2018 They matter to me. Manufacturer of the Year Efficiency and capacity. for Kimberly-Clark’s Mobile Those are the two primary operations, in an earlier article goals of Kimberly-Clark’s recent in The Business View.
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