Chattanooga TN Business News
Chattanooga is home to Volkswagen's only North American assembly plant and a growing cluster of automotive suppliers and advanced manufacturers. Unemployment ran at 3.2% through 2024 annual average, against a state rate of 3.3%. Tennessee is a right-to-work state.
What anchors the Chattanooga economy
- Erlanger Health System.
- Hamilton County Schools.
- Volkswagen Group of America (Chattanooga Operations).
- BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.
Beyond the headlines
The economy reaches into Healthcare & Medical Services, Insurance & Financial Services, Electric Power Generation & Distribution, and Food & Beverage Manufacturing. Chattanooga is corporate home to BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee (Fortune 500 equivalent; 1 Cameron Hill Circle), Unum Group (Fortune 500; One Fountain Square), McKee Foods Corporation (Little Debbie; Collegedale), and Astec Industries (Nasdaq: ASTE; Chattanooga). The single largest taxpayer in the county is Volkswagen Group of America (Chattanooga Operations) — largest single private industrial taxpayer in Hamilton County.
Trade & infrastructure
- Foreign Trade Zone #134 — Chattanooga Regional FTZ — federal duty-deferral zone for manufacturers and distributors here.
- Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Lovell Field).
Talent pipeline
Workforce flows out of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Chattanooga State Community College — feeding the engineering, healthcare, finance, and skilled-trade jobs that Chattanooga employers fill every year.
Who moves the room
Major institutional power centers shaping local business decisions include EPB (Electric Power Board). HEREChattanooga covers their boards, agendas, and announcements.
How HEREChattanooga covers it
We track every layer of the Chattanooga economy: corporate relocations, retail openings, restaurant launches, workforce trends, commercial real estate, supplier announcements, hospital and university capital projects, and the local, state, and federal government decisions that shape how businesses here grow. If it affects business in Hamilton County, it's HERE.
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Chattanooga is in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Major employers in the Chattanooga area include Erlanger Health System, Hamilton County Schools, Volkswagen Group of America (Chattanooga Operations) and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee.
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