Archive for IMC Companies News

  • Journal of Commerce Annual Review and Outlook 2021

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    Jan

  • IMC Companies’ Collierville Headquarters Are Still Underway

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    Jan

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    Aug

  • IMCG and OIS Receive MTD Logistics International Sprig Award

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    Aug

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    Apr

  • 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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  • Supporting drivers on the front line

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    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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