FOR DISTRIBUTION Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Partnership 2020 Business Activity July 2014
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FOR DISTRIBUTION Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Partnership 2020 Business Activity July 2014 - June 2015 Announcement City of County of Expansion or Number of New Square P2020 Target Country Date Company Name Location Location Relocation Jobs Footage Description of Operation Sector Origin Relocation of warehouse/distribution facility from Waverly, TN to available building in Dickson, TN. Hope to announce new jobs from offshore site in the Supply Chain 2014 Propper International Dickson Dickson Relocation 60 N/A near future Management USA Advanced 2014 Bridgestone APM Dickson Dickson Expansion 80 72,000 Automotive Foam Related Manufacturing Japan Advanced 2014 Tennsco Dickson Dickson Expansion 15 34,000 Expansion of manufacturing facility/warehouse Manufacturing USA Advanced 2014 Shiloh Dickson Dickson Expansion 70 Metal Stamping for Automotive Industry Manufacturing USA Metal Stamping and Assembly for Automotive and Advanced 2014 Truform Dickson Dickson Expansion 32 Appliance Manufacturing USA Surecan, a plastic gas can manufacturer, leased a facility in Lebanon in 2014 and will begin production Advanced 7/20/2014 Surecan, Inc. Lebanon Wilson Expansion 120 90,000 and distribution to market in the upcoming year. Manufacturing USA PFG Customized Distribution, one of four operating segments within the holding company Performance Food Group, is expanding its Support Services Administration building in Lebanon, TN. The mirror addition to the current building will double its size from 20,000 to 40,000 SF, allowing all 130 office PFG Customized associates to be back under one roof again, Supply Chain 7/1/2014 Distribution Lebanon Wilson Expansion 0 20,000 including the corporate logistics department. Management USA DAIDO announced the introduction of a Advanced 7/10/2014 DAIDO Portland Robertson Expansion 40 34,000 manufacturing process new to this campus. Manufacturing USA Madison Mill, Inc., a manufacturer of wood products, has purchased the building in the Cheatham County Industrial Park vacated by Triton Boats in 2011. The company plans to relocate its entire operations into the facility and employ at least 125 in Ashland City by the end 7/10/2014 Madison Mill, Inc. Ashland City Cheatham Relocation 150 240,000 of 2015 with plans for up to 150 by the end of 2016. Advanced ManufacturingUSA New York-based Verizon will hire for positions at its call centers and at various retail outlets throughout the Midstate. This is the second hiring surge for Verizon in Middle Tennessee in recent years. In 2011, the company added 300 to its Franklin call Corporate 7/17/2014 Verizon Wireless Franklin Williamson Expansion 300 N/A center. Operations USA The health insurer Cigna-HealthSpring is preparing to bolster its presence in MetroCenter. The company will sign a lease for about 50,000 additional square 7/18/2014 Cigna-HealthSpring Nashville Davidson Expansion 0 50,000 feet in an existing MetroCenter building. Health Care USA Schrader has expanded its Springfield, Tenn., facility with a new $15 million capacity investment. Both milestones are symbolic of Schrader’s continued leadership in technology, rapid industry growth and ongoing commitment to its employees in Advanced 7/18/2014 Schrader Electronics Springfield Robertson Expansion 50 NA Springfield, TN. Manufacturing USA Acadia Healthcare will be the first tenant at Emery's Franklin Park. Headquartered in Franklin, Acadia will occupy the top two floors of the 10-story building, taking 54,000 square feet. This is double the size of 7/19/2014 Acadia Healthcare Franklin Williamson Expansion 0 54,000 Acadia's current headquarters. Health Care USA Amazon.com is bringing a new sorting center, its first in Tennessee, to Nashville. The facility is expected to create 100 jobs. The center will operate out of a 214,000-square-foot warehouse Amazon has leased near Nashville International Airport. Renovations and upgrades at the former Ceva Supply Chain 7/22/2014 Amazon Nashville Davidson Expansion 100 214,000 Logistics facility total $3.25 million. Management USA Shiloh Industries is dedicated to delivering lightweighting, noise and vibration solutions to automotive, commercial vehicle and other industrial Advanced 7/29/2014 Shiloh Industries Clarksville Montgomery Relocation 150 75,000 markets. Manufacturing USA ComputeCycles which focuses on mobile technology and the Internet of things. Three team members will move to Nashville, with two others working remotely and a group of about seven contractors located throughout the country. The firm is looking to take on junior developers who can be paired with the existing experienced team. Within 12 to 18 months, the company hopes to be 15 to 20 Corporate 7/31/2014 ComputeCycles Franklin Williamson Relocation 20 employees strong in the Nashville area Operations USA Advanced 8/1/2014 Sekisui Plastics Mt. Pleasant Maury Expansion 32 From State ECD Manufacturing Japan ServiceSource, the global leader in recurring revenue management, annouced plans to expand its Nashville sales center and will create 100 full-time permanent jobs to support its rapidly growing customer base. With now over 800 local employees, ServiceSource is the third largest technology-based Corporate 8/4/2014 ServiceSource Nashville Davidson Expansion 100 employer in the greater Nashville area. Operations USA The Internal Revenue Service is looking to fill 100 jobs at its call center in Cool Springs. These are full- Internal Revenue time seasonal jobs, which usually offer four to six Corporate 8/7/2014 Service Franklin Williamson Expansion 100 months of work per year, but may be extended. Operations USA Mizzouri, a global market research firm formed at the beginning of 2014, has selected Franklin for its headquarters, according to a news release. The firm will operate a six-person team from Espaces co- working locations in both cool springs and Belle Meade. Its global network includes roughly 150 Corporate 8/12/2014 Mizzouri Franklin Williamson Relocation 6 senior consultants and technologists. Operations USA Relevant Communications, a public relations firm specializing in entertainment and fine art clients Relevant based in Boca Raton, Fla., is opening a Nashville Music & 8/14/2014 Communications Nashville Davidson Relocation N/A N/A office in September. Entertainment USA RocketFuel is essentially a full-service marketing agency with a specialty in digital work, especially Web design, SEO and a variety of other Web- related tools. The expansion to Nashville is part of an overall long-term strategy to grow the company, now 20 employees strong, to a workforce of around Corporate 8/15/2014 RocketFuel Nashville Davidson Relocation 10 N/A 100. Operations USA Rural Media Group, the parent company of the popular RFD-TV cable network, will sublease studio and office space on Music Row, and relocate a bulk of its key executives from Nebraska. The move will mean the relocation and creation of 100 jobs by the end of the year as the company increases its Music & 8/20/2014 Rural Media Group Nashville Davidson Relocation 100 N/A production output. Entertainment USA Food distribution giant B&G Foods Inc. has signed a lease for 445,942 square feet of space in a logistics park outside Nashville, Tennessee, Duke Realty Corp., the real Supply Chain 8/26/2014 B&G Foods Lebanon Wilson Expansion 80 445,000 estate trust that owns the property, announced Monday. Management USA General Motors officials announced today the company will invest $185 million to make small gas engines at its Spring Hill manufacturing complex. GM also identified the next-generation Cadillac SRX as a future mid-size vehicle to be produced at Spring Hill.The investment supports GM’s new small displacement engine, which is part of an all-new Ecotec engine family that will be used by five GM brands in 27 models by the 2017 model year, powering many of the company’s high-volume small Advanced 8/27/2014 General Motors Spring Hill Maury Expansion car and compact-crossover vehicles. Manufacturing USA Federal-Mogul officials announced today the company will invest $6.2 million to expand its current distribution facility in Smyrna, Tennessee and create 135 new jobs in Rutherford County. Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation is a leading global supplier of products and services to the world's manufacturers and servicers of vehicles and equipment in the automotive, light, medium and heavy-duty commercial, marine, rail, aerospace, power Advanced 8/27/2014 Federal-Mogul Smyrna Rutherford Expansion 135 200,000 generation and industrial markets. Manufacturing USA Sony Music Nashville is moving its headquarters off of famed Music Row to a building that Eakin Partners is developing at 1201 Demonbreun Street in the Gulch. SonyMusic Nashville will occupy all of the 13th floor, which is about 26,000 square feet of space. Sony Music Nashville, which consists of three county music labels — Arista Nashville, Columbia Nashville and RCA Nashville — plus Music & 8/27/2014 Sony Music Nashville Davidson Relocation 0 26,000 Provident Music Group, a Christian label. Entertainment USA Los Angeles-based Entertainment PR company Different Drummer will open a new office in Music & 8/28/2014 Different Drummer Nashville Davidson Relocation 2 N/A Nashville. Entertainment USA Advanced 9/1/2014 Rae Products Antioch Davidson Expansion 42 From State ECD Manufacturing USA AIG officials announced the company will expand its Davidson County operations by developing headquarters for the marketing and distribution of financial products related to life insurance. The expansion will add 200 new jobs over the next three years. In order to accommodate the expansion, AIG’s life insurance organization plans to relocate operations in 2016 to a new facility that will be built at 340 Seven Springs Way in Nashville. The new jobs will include financial advisory roles as well as training and operations positions. Corporate 9/2/2014 AIG Nashville Davidson Expansion 200 154,000 Operations USA Magna International will expand its Maury County manufacturing operations by investing $16 million to construct a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at 701 Beechcroft Road in Spring Hill.