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• Midtown juice bar to open in Crosstown Concourse

  14-10-2016 21:39 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A Midtown juice and smoothie bar will take its second location to the Crosstown Concourse.I Love Juice Bar Crosstown will open in the 1.1 million redeveloped Crosstown Concourse in April 2017. The healthy drink and food bar concept will occupy an 840-square-foot retail bay that includes patio seating.“I have been following Crosstown since the whole kind of idea came about,” said Scott Tashie, owner of I Love Juice Bar and the Cosmic Coconut. “For the past few years I have alway
  
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• MBJ presents the Top 40 Under 40 winners for 2016

  14-10-2016 21:08 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  This is the 20th installment of Memphis Business Journal's Top 40 Under 40 awards, and it just might be the best class yet.Click the slideshow to see the winners of MBJ's 2016 Top 40 Under 40.The awards recognize the area’s young movers and shakers who have made significant contributions to the Memphis and Mid-South community through career accomplishments and leadership in the business, professional, civic and personal arenas.The awards will take place on Friday, Nov. 11, at 11:30 a.m. at
  
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• Sneak peek: The best perks from this year's Best Places to Work

  14-10-2016 18:40 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Donuts, birthdays off, Cancun — our 2016 Best Places to Work know how to "treat" their employees.To see some of the best perks from Memphis-area companies, click on the slideshow.This year's Best Places to Work were honored at a luncheon at the BRIDGES Center Thursday, Oct. 13. Honorees included Behind the Scenes, The Marston Group, Fogelman Management Group, Archer Malmo, ANF Architects, First Tennessee and The Peabody Hotel Memphis.To determine the Best Places to Work, MBJ partnered with
  
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• Cherry Road home sells for $1.14 million, claims week's top spot

  14-10-2016 17:38 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  After a less than seven figure showing last week, this week's top home sales bounced back to $1 million.The highest residential sale was a house on Cherry Road in the Memphis 38117 ZIP code. The 6,300-square-foot home, built in 1988, has four bedrooms, four bathrooms and two half-baths. It sold for $1.14 million.The second house was a 5,600-square-foot property on North Winding Wood Circle in the Collierville 38017 ZIP. Constructed in 2015, the home has five bedrooms and five-and-a-half baths.&h
  
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• International Paper CFO to retire

  14-10-2016 16:43 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Memphis-based International Paper (NYSE: IP) CFO Carol Roberts is leaving the company in 2017.The company announced that senior vice president William Hoel will retire as well."For more than 30 years, Carol and Bill have been key contributors to our success; they have been integral in leading our transformation to a more successful and sustainable company," Mark S. Sutton, chairman and CEO of IP, said in a news release. "We will continue to benefit from the people and organizations they develope
  
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• Memphis taco shop announces new location, complete with drive-thru

  14-10-2016 16:23 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A local Mexican restaurant with a Southern California flare is ready for location No. 2.Elena’s Taco Shop signed a lease for 2,500 square feet of space at 8610 Ricky Bell Cove, near the Best Western hotel in the Wolfchase corridor.A former fast food restaurant, the building will have a drive-thru, and unlike its first location at 6105 Summer Ave., it will also have a bar.“We want to accommodate more people later at night,” said Pedro Gonzalez, who handles promotions and marketi
  
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• Stumpf's career took him from childhood poverty to Wells Fargo's CEO — and now out

  14-10-2016 14:34 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Wells Fargo's former Chairman and CEO John Stumpf was the pride of small town Minnesota as his banking career led him to the pinnacle of what was the nation's most valuable bank until about a month ago, when it all began crashing down around him.Even as he held the reins of Wells Fargo and its ubiquitous stagecoach, Stumpf maintained his folksy charm, telling analysts he dreamed of checking accounts and checked the bank's deposit ledger every morning. Over the years, he skipped the opportunity&h
  
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• Construction: $15 million permit filed for Memphis HQ

  14-10-2016 14:22 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  A multimillion-dollar building permit was filed for a specialty pharmacy headquartered in Memphis.The $15 million building permit for Accredo Health Group Inc. located at 1640 Century Center Parkway, was submitted Oct. 12 for office renovations. Accredo is a subsidiary of Express Scripts Holding Co. (Nasdaq: ESRX).David Whitrap, senior director of corporate communications, said the permit was the continuation of a multiyear renovation of the facility.“We are improving the workspaces for ou
  
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• Ken Bone signs on as Uber pitchman

  14-10-2016 14:11 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  Ken Bone, who became an Internet sensation after asking a question during Sunday's presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, has been tapped as a pitchman for Uber.The ride-sharing service announced via its website that Bone, who attended the debate in his now-famous red sweater as an undecided voter, has decided, "and he's chosen uberSelect."Bone took the first-ever uberSelect ride in St. Louis on Wednesday morning. Uber is launching the Select luxury ride-sharing service in&he
  
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• United Airlines system malfunction causes delays

  14-10-2016 14:03 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  United Airlines got back on schedule Friday morning after a system malfunction caused flight delays, according to a WXIA report.In a statement, the airlines explained the delays were due to a problem with its weight reporting system. "Earlier tonight we experienced an issue with our weight reporting system, which caused system wide flight delays. We have resolved the issue and are working to get customers to their destinations as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience."United Airli
  
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