A & J Salvage

AAA RV Park

Abilis Health

 Advance Financial 24/7

Advanced Gastroenterology

Alexander Auctions & Real Estate

Align Chiropractic

All Craft Erectors

Allen Searcy Builder Contractor, Inc. Allen's Paint & Supply

Allens Wrecker Service

Alliance Ag Equipment

Aloha Pools and Spas

Ameriprise Financial

AOSM

AT & T Tennessee

ATA

Baird

Baptist Hospice

Baptist memorial Hospital

Barker Building Rentals

Barker, Judy - Attorney at Law

Barkley Construction

Blue Bank Resort

 Blue Steel Tool and Die

Boys and Girls Club of Northwest Tennessee

BR Supply

Buddy's Wrecker Service

Buy Sell Trade

C.W. Sandersons

Cains Pool and Spa

Calla Lilly

Cam Cleaning Company

Cam Electric

Carey Counseling Center

Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse

Carpenter Real Estate

Casey Hood for State Senate

Caseys General Store

Center Point Business Solutions Century 21 Golden Service Realty Chancellor Mike Malone

China Buffet

City Autoplex

City of Hornbeak

City of Kenton

City of Obion

City of Rives

City of Samburg

City of South Fulton

City of Woodland Mils

Collision Specialty

Conley Conley

Cornfest, Inc.

Cottonwood Harvest Grill

Country Hearth Inn

Cox Oil Company

Cutting Edge Lawn Care

 Danny Larcom Heating & Air

Darling Ingredients

Dental Center

Discovery Park of America

Dixie Gun Works

Douglas Tax Service

 Dr. Jere W. Crenshaw

Dunns Body Shop

Dyersburg State Community College Dynamix

E Plus Broadband

E.W. James & Sons

Edmaiston Mosley Funeral Home Edward Jones - Dalton Lewis

Everett-Stewart Regional Airport

 Farm Credit Mid-America

Felecia Bella

Final Flight Outfitters

First Choice Farm and Lawn

 First Citizens National Bank

Ford Construction

Forever Communications

 Friends of Reelfoot Lake State Park Fuller Partners Real Estate

Fulton Decorating

Fulton Plaza Motor Inn

G & H Tool & Die

Gibson Electric

 Giffin Farms

Green Plains Obion

Greenfield Products

H & R Agri Power

H & R Block

Hales Commercial Cleaning

Hale's Construction

Hamilton-Ryker Group

 Hanafee Brothers Sawmill

 Herman Jenkins

Historic Anns/Glorias on Exchange Holiday Inn Express and Suites

 Holman Farms

Home Builders Mart

Hornsby's Garage

Institutional Casework

J.R. Wauford & Company

JD Distributors

Jerry Ward Autoplex

Jiffy Steamer

Job World, Inc.

Johnson Heating & Air

Jordan and Boundurant Eyecare

Kenn-Tenn Wireless

Kenton Chevrolet

Kiwanis Club of Union City

Kizer Pharmacy

KMAC - Taco Bell

Kohler

Kreitmans Towing

 KYTN-WQAK

Lakeview Dining Rooom

Lanzer's Printing and Office Supplies Lashlee-Rich, Inc

Leaders Credit Union

Los Portales

Lowrance Sound

Magical Minks Entertainment

Magnolia Place

Mahindra of Kenn Tenn

Main Street Union City

 Maness & Jowers PLC

Manpower of the Mid-South Masquerade Theatre

Mathis Battery Company

McDonalds

 Mike Holman

Miles Head Start

Miles Law office

MSHN Enterprises

Northwest Tennessee Cardiology Northwest Tennessee Workforce Board Obion County Clerk - Crystal Crain

Obion County Farm Bureau

Obion County Farm Bureau - Hadley Malone

Obion County Memorial Gardens

Obion County Prevention Coalition Obion County Public Library

OC Walk of Hope

 Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

OUTside IN

Parkers Outfitting

Pathways

Pediatric Place of Union City

Pepsi MidAmerica

Personnel Placements, LLC

Phillips Engineering, Inc

PIP Printing

Polk Glover

Poplar Meadows Country Club

Premier Primary Care

Priority One Medical Care PLLC

Q benefit Solutions , LLC

Quality Inn

Ramm Fencing

Rawls Funeral Home

 RC Mechanical

Reelfoot Animal Hospital

Reelfoot Bearing and Supply

Reelfoot Family Walk-In Clinic

Reelfoot Lake Tourism

Reelfoot Metal Building Supply

Reelfoot Regional Association of Realtors

Republic Services

Revell Construction Company

Reynolds Brothers Oil Company

Robert E. Lee & Jenny D. Kirkland Foundation

Sabins Cafe at Discovery Park of America

Schlager Financial

Searcy Rentals

Second Baptist Church

Servall Pest Control

 Shelter Insurance

Shoe Shack

Signature Healthcare of Ridgely Simmons Bank

Sisters Antiques & Gifts

Sleep Inn/Mainstay Suites

 Small World Childcare

Snappy Tomato Pizza

Sodexo

Southern Concrete Products

Southern Machinery Repair, Inc Southern Pain and Regenerative Medicine Ssecurity Bank and Trust

State Farm Agent - Chris Williams Stephen J. Harpole, DDS

Stephen Vaden

Storage Plaza

Sugar & Spice

Sweet Pea Boutique & Blessings Swettwater Farms Development

 Taylor Ford-Lincoln

 Tencom

Tennessee Tractor

The Chocolate Bunny

The Citizens Bank

The Color Shop

The Daily Messenger

The Etheridge House/The Arbors

The Pavilion at Houser Creek

The Tiny Baker

The Waters of Union City

The Willow Tree/ R & D Cakes and Catering

Thompson, McConnell, & Hurst Thunderbolt Broadcasting

TLM Associates

Top of the World Distributors

Trish Dial Photography

Tri-State International

Triumph Mortgage

Trudys Kids Café

Tyson Foods

 Ultimate Fitness

Union City Carpet

 Union City Coca-Cola

Union City Energy Authority

 Union City Eye Care

Union City Forklift

Union City Housing Authority

Union City Insurance Agency

Union City Nursing and Rehab

Union City Parts Company

Union City Paving

Union City Rotary Club

Union City Surgery Center

Union City Terminal Railroad

Universal Contractors

UT Martin Reed Center

Vaughn Electric

Volunteer Lenders

Vowell & Sons Lumber Company

Wade Acres

Ware Park Apartments

Warner Law Firm

Waymatic

West Kentucky Rural Telephone Co-Op

West TN PBS

Westate Corrections

WestStar leadership

White & Associates

White Ranson Funeral Home

William B. Acree

Williams Sausage

WPSD-TV

WUWT-TV

WW Travel Services

 Wynridge

Are you interested in becoming a member of the Obion County Chamber of Commerce? Click here to join our chamber!

Center point Business Solutions - HR Client Manager

Phone: (731) 885 4810

Email: natasha.pennington@cpbsllc.com

Areas of Expertise: Human Resources.

Other Interests: Fishing, hiking, traveling, & anything outdoors or adventurous.

What made you want to become active in the chamber? I moved to Obion County from Southern California in 2017. I wanted to immerse myself in my community to make connections as well as contribute to making our town one of the greatest places to both live & work.

Why do you serve on the Board of Directors? I wanted to serve on the Board of Directors because I have seen all the good that the Chamber does for the community & I wanted to be a part of that. I love living & working in Obion County & I want to make a difference in our community in any way I can. Still being fairly new to the area, the chamber also allows me to make connections within the community both professionally & personally.

What is the Chambers role in the business community? I believe the Chamber's role is to help support new & existing businesses as well as provide networking opportunities. The Chamber helps attract & retain businesses & continues to strive to make Obion County a great place to live, work, & visit.

What piece of advice would you give to a business who was thinking about joining the chamber? I would highly recommend becoming a member of the Chamber. I think it is important for a business in Obion County to be community minded. Being a small town, I believe the people here really want to support local businesses and the Chamber can help be a shining light. The Chamber goes above & beyond & they are truly passionate about what they do.

The University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services offer many services that may be of interest to your company. Our service line includes, OSHA trainings, confined space training, machine guarding, fork lift training, Form R reporting , ISO 14001 gap analysis, training, HAZWOPER, Incident Command Systems, industrial waste water training, and industrial hygiene offerings including air sampling and safety audits to ensure regulatory compliance and/ or ensure best practices are put in place.

We also assist companies in their efforts to ensure or improve quality at the source through continuous improvement efforts through Lean Manufacturing concepts such as 5s, Kaizen training, Toyota Kata , ergonomics and how to identify other forms of waste from the office to the shop floor. We also offer quality training, consulting and auditing services in the areas of Six Sigma Yellow, Green and Black Belt Training, ISO 9001 implementation and auditing, 8D and A3 Structured Problem Solving, ISO 16949. We also offer individual training courses and programs that are designed to promote leadership skills with your existing shop floor employees who may be considered future supervisors or existing supervisors who could benefit from professional /personal development courses in the areas of conflict resolutions, managing delegation, working with difficult people and managing a diverse team.

We have launched an Obion County blog. This blog will feature local businesses, community members, and more! This is an exciting time to learn more about what makes Obion County so great. You can check out our blog at https://obioncounty.org/blog

If you want your business featured, feel free to reach out to Brooke at membership@obioncounty.org!

Thunderbolt is also pleased to recognize Cindy Prince who is beginning her 41^st year in broadcasting. Mrs. Prince began her career in radio immediately after high school in 1979 as the office and commercial manager for the Martin offices of Thunderbolt Broadcasting. She is the longest employed member of the Thunderbolt family.  

Thunderbolt is pleased to be an Obion County Chamber member and is a past recipient of the chamber’s “You Made it Happen Award.” Their locally owned radio stations keep the communities it serves in touch each day with a rich tradition of local news and high school sports and is a partner in many community events.   It also provides businesses with marketing opportunities including “over the air” and “digital” with thunderboltradio.com.

On Monday, August 3, Governor Bill Lee visited Obion County. His first stop was in Union City, as he spoke to local leaders at the Venue at Center Point. He then traveled to Obion County Central High School where he distributed supplies to promote a safe and healthy school year. These supplies included masks, hand sanitizer, and cleaning supplies.

Bank Director Magazine has ranked First Citizens National Bank #86 in the United

States from a pool of peer banks in the $1 billion to $5 billion asset size. The magazine

ranks banks from a balanced scorecard based off of return on equity, return on

assets, asset quality and capital. Chairman & CEO Jeff Agee states, “We are big

believers in measuring the company from a balanced approach. Our internal scorecard

is strategically aligned with our vision, People Centered and Unbelievably Good. Our

balanced scorecard includes metrics similar to the director magazine, but we include

and place more weighting on teammate / customer metrics.”

Directors and examiners enjoy seeing banks make this impactful list. Most banks on this

list strategically know how to balance risk management with long term value creation.

First Citizens National Bank has maintained a longstanding ranking with Bank Director

Magazine.

JACKSON, Tenn. (August 26, 2020) – Leaders Credit Union, a member-owned financial

cooperative based in Jackson, Tenn., is pleased to introduce Karen Freeman as Chief Operations Officer and Ryan Platt as Chief Information Officer. Freeman, formally Vice President of Community Engagement for Leaders, will oversee all branch and e-branch operations, which includes eight retail facilities and the member contact center. Platt, new to Leaders, will oversee the data processing departments and be responsible for both cybersecurity and technology security for the credit union. Both roles will collaborate with the CEO, board of directors, and other executives to strategically move the credit union forward.

“Karen and Ryan are both excellent additions to our C-suite, and we are thrilled they are

bringing their talents and expertise to our executive team,” President and CEO of Leaders Credit Union Todd Swims said. “Karen brings extensive experience in the banking industry and an innovative outlook from her recent role of taking the credit union to the community that our team will benefit from greatly. Platt brings a wealth of knowledge about information technology that will help our credit union move forward both analytically and digitally.”

The Obion County Farmers Breakfast took place on August 27, at the Obion County fairgrounds. Speakers included Stephen Vaden (pictured to the right), Congressman David Kustoff, and Tennessee Commissioner of Agriculture Charlie Hatcher. After hearing from these speakers, Obion County celebrated a century farm and recognized the family in attendance.

Although it looked very different this year, we had a great time attending the Southern Economic Development Council's Annual Conference virtually. What a great way to network and hear from economic development experts. Pictured to the left is some of the Copper sponsors for the event.

Here at the Chamber, we attended the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce annual conference virtually. We were able to hear from Chamber professionals and catch up with Tennessee Chamber friends!

Union City, Tenn., -- Main Street Union City has been designated as a 2020 Accredited Main Street America™ program. Accredited status is Main Street America’s top tier of recognition and signifies a demonstrated commitment to comprehensive commercial district revitalization and proven track record of successfully applying the Main Street Approach™. 

Main Street America has been helping revitalize older and historic commercial districts for 40 years. Today, it is a network of more than 1,600 neighborhoods and communities, rural and urban, who share both a commitment to place and to building stronger communities through preservation-based economic development. Since 1980, communities participating in the program have leveraged more than $85.43 billion in new public and private investment, generated 672,333 net new jobs and 150,079 net new businesses, and rehabilitated more than 295,348 buildings. Main Street America is a program of the nonprofit National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

ATA has increased its ranking from 147 to 136 on the 2020 INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA) Top 200 Firms list. This accolade is deemed by the IPA Annual Survey and Analysis of Firms. IPA 100, 200, and 300 firms are ranked by U.S. net revenues and are compiled by analyzing the more than 550 responses received this year for IPA’s Survey and Analysis of Firms. This is IPA’s 30th annual ranking of the largest accounting firms in the nation.

“It’s a goal of ATA’s to expand our footprint. Over the last several years, our firm has focused on bringing additional service offerings to the markets we serve,” said John Whybrew, managing partner of ATA. “Thank you to our clients and business partners who have helped contribute to our success. We look forward to continuing our services with you,” said Whybrew.

This is an unprecedented time in the accounting industry. With the many changes that took place in early 2020, ATA has proven to be agile and adaptive through these unique circumstances. Continued growth and flexibility while working with clients during this time has proven ATA can arise to any challenge.

As the future arrives, ATA understands its need and responsibility to stay ahead of the curve as new trends and innovative approaches hit the accounting industry. ATA will continue to improve and expand the services that are offered as well as strategically grow its office footprint.

INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA), founded in 1987, is published by The Platt Group. The Platt Group publishes both the award-winning INSIDE Public Accounting newsletter and the award-winning National Benchmarking Report, along with other key reports on the profession. The Platt Group assists firms to become more successful through a variety of services.

ATA has 14 office locations in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. Recognized as an IPA Top 200 regional accounting firm, we provide a wide array of accounting, auditing, tax and consulting services for clients ranging from small family-owned businesses to publicly traded companies, and international corporations. ATA is also an alliance