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19
Jan
Journal of Commerce Annual Review and Outlook 2021
Donna Lemm, Executive Vice President of National Sales at IMC Companies, shares her insights with the Journal of Commerce on how the year 2020 impacted the trucking industry and what she looks forward to in 2021.
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19
Jan
IMC Companies’ Collierville Headquarters Are Still Underway
IMC Companies’ new corporate headquarters isn’t the only new construction happening in Schillings Farms this year. In 2021, the town of Collierville plans to start the building process of residential and retail buildings in the Schillings Farms Water Tower District–making […]
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26
Aug
Intermodal Leader IMC Moves its Corporate Headquarters to Collierville
IMC Companies was recently featured in an article in the Town of Collierville regarding their upcoming move to Collierville, Tennessee in 2021. Read the full article here.
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11
Aug
IMCG and OIS Receive MTD Logistics International Sprig Award
Intermodal Cartage Company (IMCG) and Ohio Intermodal Services (OIS) were presented with the Logistics International Sprig Award by MTD Products Inc during their virtual suppliers meeting on August 12, 2020.
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30
Apr
Maines Paper idles 129 as coronavirus lockdown takes toll, pushing Memphis jobless rate over 11%
Greater Memphis’ jobs engine could pick up speed in the next few months, but for now, the coronavirus lockdown continues to batter the economy and push the region’s unemployment rate up to recession levels. Layoffs have now idled at least […]
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27
Apr
American Mattress Alliance: Retailers want antidumping supporters to pull petition
NEW YORK — The American Mattress Alliance says it hopes the U.S. bedding producers filing an antidumping mattress petition will “take the state of the industry into account and pull the petition.”
The AMA said it has heard from a number of retailers who are voicing their disapproval of the petition.
It noted that home furnishings sales were down 24.6% in March and said a retail mattress survey is predicting second-quarter sales to be down 50%. Given those conditions, retailers and service providers are speaking out about the timing, the AMA said.
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07
Apr
Supporting drivers on the front line
“Our goal is to encourage drivers. In a global pandemic, they are our nation’s heroes.” – Mark H. George, Chairman IMC Companies.
Drivers are keeping America running during the COVID-19 pandemic. We understand you are working on the front lines. We have your back.
At a time when many restaurants and fuel stations are closed to drivers, IMC Companies Chairman Mark H. George and his wife Melinda are working to ensure drivers in Memphis have access to meals. During the past several weeks, they, and IMCG President Joel Henry, personally passed out 150 boxed lunches every Tuesday and Thursday to all drivers entering the Memphis terminal’s interchange lanes in an IMCC initiative called “Sandwiches for Semis”. (more…)
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27
Mar
No shortage of food, but grocers limited by rationing of paper products, bread
Just when Memphis-area grocers thought they’d hit a lull, a buying frenzy exploded again Monday afternoon after shelter-in-place orders from local governments.
“Once the announcement was made, we got crushed,” Richard James, owner of three Memphis-area Cash Saver stores, said on Wednesday, March 25.
Early Monday, “we even had a conversation among store managers and myself, ‘Well, it looks like things are going to calm down a little bit,’ ” said James.
Then, “In a condensed period of time it was probably the busiest day of the last 14 days. We took a deep breath and went, ‘That didn’t last long,’ ” James said.
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25
Mar
Local truckload carrier preps for import surge from China
A locally based truckload carrier is trying to surge ahead in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
Donna Lemm, EVP of national sales for IMC Cos., said all U.S. ports and inland rails remain open, which means the company’s drivers continue to deliver freight.
Lemm acknowledged that before the coronavirus, the industry looked promising and intermodal volumes were strong. The Chinese New Year brought a typical seasonal lull for the transportation industry. But, Lemm said things changed when the virus hit Wuhan, China and import volumes from Chinese manufacturers dropped. Ocean carriers were also forced to cancel sailings out of China.
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25
Mar
The odd face of Memphis 2020: Logistics firms hire, doctors scramble, people wait as coronavirus spreads
IMC Companies, a Memphis-based freight hauler, responded to the situation by changing how staffers work.
Office employees now alternate work between home and IMC headquarters, said Mason George, president of national accounts for IMC. The company runs 600 trucks and dispatches 2,000 drivers, including owner-operators who haul the ocean-going freight containers arriving at U.S. ports.
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