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Tupelo Offers Numerous Business Opportunities
Located at the intersection of U.S. highways 45 and 78, Tupelo is roughly equidistant from Memphis, Tenn. and Birmingham, Ala. along one axis and Nashville, Tenn. and Jackson, Miss. along another. In addition to these highways, interstate transportation is facilitated by two rail lines (the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and the Kansas City Southern) and the Tupelo Regional Airport. The following is a sample of the major business entities in Tupelo.
Health CareTupelo is home to North Mississippi... Read More »
Tupelo Community Development Foundation Boosts Jobs
In an economic climate where change is the only certainty, Tupelo's Community Development Foundation (CDF) is embracing this new standard, charging forward with its mission to create new and better jobs for Tupelo/Lee County. Throughout its rich 63-year history, CDF has spearheaded the region’s transition from an agrarian society to one with a manufacturing focus. And today, the economic development group is helping move Tupelo/Lee County into a knowledge-based economy, ensuring that... Read More »
Tupelo, MS Top Employers
Tupelo focuses on the future, allocating resources for business and job development. In the past several years, Tupelo has successfully created thousands of new jobs and increased wages for its hard workers. Here are Tupelo’s top employers:
North Mississippi Health Services, 4,286 employees
Lane Furniture Industries, 1,678
Cooper Tire and Rubber Company, 1,625
Tupelo Public School District, 1,200
MTD Products, 1,050
JESCO, Inc., 1,000
Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club, 979
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Renasant Center for IDEAs Helps Entrepreneurs Get Rolling
Imaginative thinking is always being cooked up at the Renasant Center for IDEAs‚ Tupelo’s incubator for small businesses with big dreams.
IDEAs in this case stands for Innovation‚ Development and Entrepreneurship in Action‚ and that’s exactly what this 28‚089-square-foot facility – strategically located in downtown’s Fairpark district – is designed to encourage.
“We focus on providing business-building services to entrepreneurs... Read More »
