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Pepsi to Close Bottling Plant in Knoxville, Cutting 112 Jobs
Knoxville TN Business News KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Pepsi plans to shut down its bottling plant in Knoxville, a move that will cost 112 people their jobs, according to a layoff notice the company filed under the federal WARN Act. The plant sits at 2708 Federal Rd., on the South Knoxville side of the Tennessee River. […]
Knoxville TN Business News WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy said Tuesday it intends to back the Tennessee Valley…
Knoxville TN Business News Knoxville, Tenn. — Old Sevier Market is now serving South Knoxville at 906 Sevier Ave., Suite…
Knoxville TN Business News The national housing market experienced a notable downturn in the final week of July, with pending…
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Pepsi to Close Bottling Plant in Knoxville, Cutting 112 Jobs
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Pepsi plans to shut down its bottling plant in Knoxville, a move that will cost 112 people their jobs, according to a layoff notice the…
Energy Department Backs $581 Million TVA Grid Upgrade
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy said Tuesday it intends to back the Tennessee Valley Authority, based in Knoxville, Tenn., on 84 transmission and distribution projects in…
Old Sevier Market Opens on South Knoxville Avenue
Knoxville, Tenn. — Old Sevier Market is now serving South Knoxville at 906 Sevier Ave., Suite 130, a locally owned corner grocery years in the making along that…
Tennessee Farmers Line Up for $212 Million in USDA Payments
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Roughly $212.2 million in federal farm support is headed to Tennessee growers, ranchers and landowners, the state office of the USDA Farm Service Agency announced…
Private Colleges Drive $22B in Tennessee Economic Activity
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee private, nonprofit colleges and universities account for more than $22 billion in economic activity a year, according to a statewide study now being broken…
Tennessee Hemp Tax Money Falls Short as Retail Stores Shrink
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee's tougher hemp law is shrinking the retail stores and suppliers it regulates, and state tax collections from hemp products are coming in at a…
Tennessee Jobless Rate Holds at 3.4% as Jobs Keep Growing
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee closed out the summer with its jobless rate parked at 3.4%, the September reading from the state labor department shows, the third month in…
Knoxville Homebuyers Face Pending-Sales Drop at 6.85%
The national housing market experienced a notable downturn in the final week of July, with pending home sales falling 1.7% and reaching their lowest level since early April.…
Outsourced HR and Compliance for Growing Knoxville-Area Organizations: What a Full HR Function Actually Covers
For East Tennessee companies that have outgrown a bookkeeper-plus-owner HR arrangement but are not yet ready for a full internal department, the outsourced HR partnership has become the…
Workplace Safety and Liability Programs for Knoxville-Area Employers in High-Risk Industries
For East Tennessee construction, energy, and manufacturing employers, a written safety program is no longer optional infrastructure — it is the baseline documentation that decides whether an incident…
Payroll and Multi-State Tax Compliance for Knoxville-Area Employers: What Growing East Tennessee Companies Need to Know
For Knoxville and Knox County employers whose workforce now crosses state lines, payroll tax compliance is no longer a back-office chore — it is an audit-ready operations discipline.
