Cheatham County Company is Always in Hot Water
Published Apr 30, 2009
From its headquarters in Ashland City, A.O. Smith Water Products Co. has been keeping the water hot in homes and businesses for more than 70 years.
Not only is the company a leading designer and manufacturer of residential and commercial water heaters and hydronic boilers, it also distributes and provides field support for its products, offering an additional resource for contractors.
A.O. Smith, which employs around 2,000 people, has received numerous accolades for its innovations. Its Cyclone Xi commercial water heater, for example, was named a gold winner in the 2008 Product of the Year competition by monthly publication Consulting-Specifying Engineer. For more on A.O. Smith, go to www.hotwater.com.
Dickson County
Breakfast Is Served
Odom’s Tennessee Pride has been a family-owned food business since 1943. The Madison, Tenn.-based company, which makes a full line of breakfast sausage, breakfast sandwiches, appetizers and gravy, employs 700 people, including 350 at Tennessee Quality Foods in Dickson. Odom’s products are sold in major grocery chains, including Kroger and WalMart. Go to www.tnpride.com for more.
Maury County
Recipe for Success
Bakery Technology Enterprises is turning up the heat. The Columbia-based company designs and builds equipment such as mixers, blenders and ovens used by commercial baking and snack-plant customers.
Its manufacturing facilities include an independent design and engineering area, and its research area is equipped with the latest engineering technology, including CAD systems, 2-D drafting, solid modeling, assembly modeling, solid manufacturing and machining software.
The company also refurbishes and upgrades existing equipment and sells pre-owned equipment. For more, go to www.bakerytechnologyent.com.
Montgomery County
Big Wheels
The American Bus Association has named the Rivers & Spires Festival a Top 100 event for 2009, the third time the annual event has received that designation. Research studies show that one overnight visit by a motorcoach group generates between $5,000 and $13,000 for a local economy in food, lodging, entertainment, shopping and tax revenues.
The Rivers & Spires Festival features live music, interactive entertainment, activities for children and food on every street corner in downtown Clarksville.
Rivers & Spires started in 2003 as a tribute to the returning soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division and has continued that heritage, with special tributes for the many soldiers from nearby Fort Campbell deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Go to www.riversandspires.com for more information.
Robertson County
Taking its Cues
Before starting Olhausen Billiard Manufacturing, Butch and Don Olhausen worked for their father setting up and re-covering pool tables. The brothers started a company in California in 1972 moving and refinishing pool tables. In 1973, the owner of the manufacturing company with which the Olhausens were affiliated offered to sell them the business for $1,000.
From just 35 tables a year at its start, Olhausen has grown into 250,000 square feet of manufacturing space in Portland, turning out 30,000 billiard tables and accessories each year sold through a network of authorized dealers.
In addition to several models of pool tables and accessories, the company now offers a Web-based application that lets buyers custom design their tables. Go to www.olhausenbilliards.com for more information.
Rutherford County
Building a Better Brand
One of the world’s premier experience marketing agencies, George P. Johnson Co., has expanded its La Vergne operations to include a 300,000-square-foot, world-class fabrication and storage facility.
The company suite of relationship-building event, exhibit and live-experience offerings helps companies in such areas as technology, automotive, financial services and health care showcase their brands, services and products. The company’s clientele includes Nissan, General Motors Corp. and IBM, among others. The La Vergne facility is one of just three manufacturing operations for Auburn Hills, Mich.-based George P. Johnson. The La Vergne facility will employ up to 100 people. For more, go to www.gpjco.com.
Sumner County
Seeing What it Likes
Novitá, a manufacturer and supplier for Tridon flashers and side-object detection systems for the auto market, has opened a manufacturing complex in Hendersonville. The company also has located its corporate headquarters at the site in the city’s Freehill Industrial Park.
The privately held electronics manufacturer and automotive industry supplier created 60 high-tech jobs that pay above the average wage for Sumner County.
The company’s patented SideEyes Object Detection technology enables drivers to see objects that don’t appear in side-view mirrors. For more on the company, go to www.novitatech.com.
Williamson County
Dialed into Brentwood
A Prague-based company that provides call-recording and related services will use a Brentwood site to market to and service its North American customers.
Zoom International develops and markets IP infrastructure and tools, including multi-media recording, workforce-management technology and quality assurance.
Zoom’s applications are used in a variety of industries with high customer call-in traffic, including service centers, financial trading floors and emergency services to capture communications and provide analysis while delivering critical business information to support an organization’s decision-making processes. For more, go to www.zoomint.com.
Wilson County
Uniform Success
Keeping companies looking sharp and their facilities clean and safe is the job of Cintas.
The Cincinnati-based company is opening a 58,000-square-foot facility in Mt. Juliet that will house some 250 workers.
Cintas, with revenues of about $3.9 billion, designs, manufactures and implements corporate-identity uniform programs and provides entrance mats, restroom cleaning and supplies, fire-protection and document-management services, promotional products, and safety and first-aid equipment to more than 800,000 businesses in North America.
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