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| Memphis Apartment Locator Services : Memphis Apartments |  | Contents | |
| Economy |
| Memphis is a center of manufacture of textiles,
heating equipment, pianos, and automobile and truck parts. It
is also the headquarters of FedEx shipping. |
| Because of its status as the primary hub for FedEx,
Memphis International Airport is currently the world's busiest
cargo airport in terms of tonnage. |
| Memphis' Division of Light, Gas and Water ("MLGW")
is one of the largest municipal utitilites in the United States. |
| Memphis as a whole contains about twenty million
square feet (2,000,000 m²) of office space, with the downtown
area containing only around four million square feet (400,000
m²). Slightly over 80% of office space in the city is occupied. |
| Fortune 500 companies |
- AutoZone
- FedEx
- International Paper (operational headquarters only; global hdqtrs
in Stamford, Connecticut)
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| Other important companies |
- Back Yard Burgers
- Belz Enterprises
- Buckeye Technologies
- First Tennessee Bank
- Guardsmark
- Hohenberg Bros. Co.
- Northwest Airlines (hub only, no headquarters)
- Union Planters Bank
- Harrah's
- Hilton
- ServiceMaster
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