May 19
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared Smith & Nephew to market a 30-year artificial knee.
The Memphis Orthopaedics Division said Thursday its Verilast technology, when used on Legion brand knee replacement, achieved an 81 percent reduction in wear during a simulation of 30 years of physical activity. The FDA clearance enables the company to expand claims for a product previously touted as offering reduced wear.
“Physically active patients want to end their knee pain for good,” said Joseph M. DeVivo, president of Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics.
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May 19
Spence Wilson, president of Kemmons Wilson Inc. has received the Master Entrepreneur Award, which is given jointly by The Society of Entrepreneurs and Junior Achievement of Memphis.
Maggie Tews and Aimee Coccodrilli have joined Crye-Leike Realtors’ Quail Hollow corporate office. Tews is certified in short sales and foreclosures.
The following have been inducted into the Society of Entrepreneurs: Denise Burnett, Patrick Neely, William E. Orgel and Winston Wolfe.
Ed Brundick has joined Waddell and Associates as chief operating officer.
May 19
A nonprofit chain of five medical clinics serving Memphis’ poorest neighborhoods got a boost this week from the Memphis and Shelby County Industrial Development Board.
The board approved an inducement agreement to issue industrial revenue bonds so Christ Community Health Services can refinance at a lower interest rate on a $2.5 million construction loan.
The industrial board is expected to give final approval next month.
Christ Community will use the savings to keep establishing more clinics to meet a severe demand for medical care among the poor, clinic officials told the board.
The 14-year-old organization borrowed money to adapt a former drugstore for its administrative headquarters at 2595 Central, next to the Fairgrounds.
First Tennessee will purchase the industrial bonds and provide “favorable” interest rates to the organization, officials said.
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May 19
3,460 and counting.
That’s how many consecutive days that St. Louis native and self-described “authority on approachability” Scott Ginsberg has worn a name tag.
On his coats, on his shirts and on his person.
That’s right, Ginsberg even has a name tag tattooed on his chest — his left pec, in case you’re wondering — to solidify his personal brand as “The Nametag Guy.”
The affable 30-year-old, with a penchant for marketing and a passion for his hometown Cardinals, trumpeted a message of brand specificity to nearly 150 advertising and public relations professionals at a breakfast forum Thursday.
The event, co-sponsored by the American Advertising Federation Memphis and the local chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, was the first joint program by the groups this year.
“This is the kind of fun, out-of-the-box creativity that we all want to offer, to our employees and to our clients,” said Susan Ewing, AAF president and director of client services at inferno.
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May 19
When asked what he does for a living, Steve Gilmore’s response is simple: “I match good people with good companies,” he says.
In December, Gilmore became the director of VACO’s Distribution, Transportation, Logistics and Supply Chain Services division. Gilmore joined the company after spending more than 18 years in the transportation, distribution and logistics industries, serving in numerous leadership roles across the country.
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Steve Gilmore is the director of Distribution, Transportation, Logistics and Supply Chain Services for VACO. He has returned home after spending 18 years in the industry in various roles across the country.
“I enjoy working with people who are looking for a new career and matching them with companies that have a need,” Gilmore said.
“To be able to see the smile on someone’s face when they get a job makes all the hard work worthwhile.
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