Volkswagen Group of America's chief on Friday discounted criticism of its Super Bowl ad, saying it has received support from top Jamaican officials and others.
All three automakers with Tennessee assembly plants on Friday posted higher January U.S. sales, with Volkswagen's Chattanooga-made Passat up 40 percent over a year ago.
Volkswagen's chief in the U.S. today endorsed the company’s controversial Super Bowl spot.
Chattanooga's top economic developer says wooing more Volkswagen suppliers to the area is key as the city's VW plant fights Mexico to produce a potential new sport utility vehicle.
Volkswagen's Super Bowl commercials the last couple years have drawn wide praise, but its newest spot has garnered some cries of racism.
The number of passengers boarding flights in Chattanooga rose for the third consecutive year during 2012, and officials said Monday they're planning one of the biggest upgrades to the passenger terminal since it was built more than 20 years ago.
McKee Foods' chief said Monday that its $27.5 million bid for Drake's snack cakes is a chance to complement his company's product line.
Though the proposed $100 million Chattanooga Village project has been spiked, the Hixson site is already zoned residential and could hold upward of 700 single-family homes.
Connie Roberts, director of marketing for InfoSystems in Chattanooga, has been appointed to a 3-year term on the IBM North American Business Partner Marketing Advisory Council.
The meltdown of former minor league manager Phillip Wellman at AT&T Field in Chattanooga has garnered more than 1 million YouTube hits since 2007.
Volkswagen's new 33-acre solar park, the largest at any U.S. auto plant and the biggest array in Tennessee, adds another stamp to Chattanooga's green card, officials said Wednesday.
Volkswagen today powered up its new solar park at its Chattanooga factory, the largest such facility at a U.S. auto plant.
Critics of a plan to build a controversial $100 million Hixson apartment and commercial project celebrated victory Tuesday after the City Council turned back the proposal.
Chattanooga's City Council today may bring to a close one of the most contentious and hard-fought rezoning battles in the city in years.
Volkswagen is aiming to turn a profit this year in the United States, including the billion-dollar bet it took in Chattanooga, the company's chief in America says.
The developer of the $100 million Chattanooga Village proposal met with critics for nearly two hours Thursday as the sides sought to hammer out differences — with mixed results.
DETROIT — The sportiest, and some might say flashiest member of the Volkswagen Passat family soon could arrive at a nearby dealer with a made-in-Chattanooga badge.
Auto parts supplier Denso is adding 130 jobs at its Athens, Tenn., facility as part of a $1 billion investment in North America.
DETROIT — If Chattanooga's Volkswagen plant lands the production of a new midsize sport utility vehicle, it will likely have to battle Mexico to do so.
DETROIT -- Saying Volkswagen wants a bigger share of the growing U.S. sport utility market, officials today rolled out a new midsize vehicle which they believe could grab more sales.
DETROIT — Volkswagen's chief executive on Sunday cited workers at its Chattanooga assembly plant for producing "perfect cars," and he said the automaker set a new U.S. sales mark in 2012.
DETROIT — Powered in large part by sales of the Chattanooga-based Passat, Volkswagen Group of America set a new sales record in 2012, besting a 42-year-old mark, the company reported today.
Three years ago, Chattanooga-based Chattem was churning out eight to 10 new products and line extensions annually.
Project: Northgate Mall is undergoing one of its biggest makeovers in its 40-year-old history. Owner: CBL & Associates Properties Inc. Location: Hixson Pike and state Highway 153.
Hamilton County officials are expected to lobby Volkswagen's top brass next week in Detroit for production of a sport utility vehicle in the company's Chattanooga plant.
Bolstered by a 35 percent jolt in U.S. sales, Volkswagen set a new global mark in 2012 for VW brand sales, the automaker reported today.
More than half of the Chattanooga companies in a new survey plan expansions that could create more than 1,200 new jobs and add more than $130 million of new investment in the next year.
Citing a need for more answers, Chattanooga City Council members on Tuesday put off a rezoning decision on a proposed 190-acre commercial and apartment project for two weeks.
Rolaids, the well-known antacid whose beginnings are linked with a Chattanooga chemist, is returning to the city where it will receive new life after exiting store shelves following two 2010 recalls.
After more than an hour of debate, the Chattanooga City Council today agreed to defer for two weeks a decision to rezone 190 acres for a proposed Hixson apartment and commercial complex.
Chattem has purchased the worldwide rights to antacid medicine Rolaids from McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division of McNeil PPC Inc.
Dale Smith said it's not unusual to see people coming to his Chattanooga dealership with 200,000-mile, 10-year-old cars who've been waiting to trade.
A Chattanooga robotics systems maker whose primary customers are in the auto industry has been bought by a global welding and brazing manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio.
A large Ohio-based company has agreed to buy Chattanooga automated systems and tooling manufacturer Tennessee Rand Inc.
The Chattanooga-made Passat hit a new all-time annual sales record in the U.S., helping drive Volkswagen’s overall sales 35.1 percent higher for 2012, the company reported today.
Buyers of new cars and trucks in Hamilton County steered sales to their best mark in five years in 2012, despite a fall-off in November and December.
Share prices for most Chattanooga area-based companies gained in 2012 as manufacturers and other sectors benefited from a better housing market and overall economy, according to experts.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — When Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam flies here on the state's King Air plane, he and his party can land at Hardwick Field but can't take off because of its short runway, officials say.
Chattanooga Airport officials are looking south as they work up their wish list of new nonstop air service.
Four years of trying to attract an Italian company to East Tennessee paid off with plans by the business to invest $70 million in a new plant, officials said Wednesday.
More apartments are headed for Chattanooga's North Shore after a development group bought a high-profile building at one of the key gateways to downtown.
A plan for a 190-acre Hixson development was termed "speculative rezoning" by one critic Monday night, but the developer said the project is slated to spur 2,000 jobs and generate another $2 million in annual taxes.
A long-simmering dispute between the Chattanooga Airport and a business operating at Lovell Field boiled over Monday before the airport authority board.
Jeffrey Holst was looking for more space for his growing freight company when he learned about what was available at Eastgate Town Center.
A Chattanooga man has sold adjacent travel and mobile home parks he's held for more than 40 years for $7.25 million.
Business and government leaders trying to plot the future of the 16-county Chattanooga region are looking at studying everything from water, sewers and health to education, transportation and jobs.
Hixson residents on Tuesday night peppered a developer with questions about what would be one of largest mixed-use projects ever built in the Chattanooga area.
A Dayton, Tenn., automotive supplier is growing its business as it wins new work among an array of car companies, officials said Tuesday.
A Chattanooga developer on Monday won a key battle in his bid to build a $100 million Hixson apartment and commercial project, but an opponent claimed that Mayor Ron Littlefield "railroaded the process."
Chattanooga planners today agreed to forward a proposed $100 million Hixson development to the City Council.
