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McAuliffe gone, GreenTech works to fulfill loan terms

Clay Chandler — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:01:11 +0000

GreenTech Automotive has until the end of 2014 to create a minimum of 350 jobs at its Tunica facility, per the terms of a $3-million loan the Mississippi Development Authority made the company. The loan, made in September 2011, is to help the hybrid car company with site preparation and what an MDA spokesperson called [...]

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At age 17, ‘the flagpole kid’ is already a business success story

Becky Gillette — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:03:22 +0000

At the age of 17, Emily Waldon is already a business veteran earning about $100,000 over the past 11 years selling flagpoles, a business she began at age six after wanting to do something patriotic after 9/11. “It has truly been great,” Waldon said, whose business is called Flagpole Express. “I’ve had so many9/11 opportunities [...]

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GreenTech’s MyCar dream set for reality

Clay Chandler — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:00:46 +0000

GreenTech Automotive is on schedule to begin production of the MyCar at the old Dover Elevator Building in Horn Lake by the end of the third quarter. And Lyn Arnold, president and CEO of the Tunica County Chamber of Commerce, told the Mississippi Business Journal in an interview last week that she hopes an announcement [...]

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Stokes wins Entergy award

MBJ Newswires — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:39:13 +0000

Tina Stokes, general manager of Schnuck’s Grocery in Horn Lake, is a 2009 recipient of the Teamwork Mississippi Community Leadership Award. Stokes and husband, Berry, moved to Horn Lake in Nov. 2000. She has been at the forefront of community development projects as a leader and volunteer ever since. Stokes is the incoming president of [...]

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Rite-Hite moving plant

MBJ Newswires — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:26:57 +0000

HORN LAKE — Rite-Hite Corporation of Milwaukee, Wis., which develops, manufactures and sells loading dock safety systems and industrial door solutions, plans to relocate a manufacturing facility to Horn Lake, bringing more than 50 manufacturing jobs to the state. “On behalf of the City of Horn Lake, we would like to welcome Rite-Hite to our [...]

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