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Press Releases
Wednesday, November 13, 2019During a ceremony at the Alabama Capitol this afternoon, officials with Hyundai Motor Manufacturing of Alabama (HMMA) said workers will assemble the Santa Cruz compact utility vehicle at the Montgomery facility, beginning in 2021. Hyundai said the $410 million investment will create additional 230,000 square feet of space in the stamping, welding and parts processing areas of the manufacturing complex. While direct employment at HMMA will increase by 200 jobs, Hyundai projects that its local suppliers and logistics companies will employ an additional 1,000 people in Montgomery and the River Region. The new expansion project punctuates a period of fertile growth for HMMA. On Nov. 1, the facility began mass production of the redesigned, eighth-generation Sonata sedan. Hyundai intends to begin filling the new positions being created by the latest expansion project during the second half of 2020. Read more(1) CommentsTuesday, October 22, 2019Today the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce launched a new initiative to nurture the River Region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem called Work Together. Read more(0) CommentsMonday, September 23, 2019Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama (HMMA) will invest an additional $292 million in new machinery and equipment to facilitate the production of the redesigned Hyundai Elantra and Santa Fe vehicles and a new, more fuel-efficient Theta engine at their North American plant in Montgomery, Alabama. Read more(0) CommentsFriday, August 2, 2019PCH Hotels and Resorts announces the opening of the new 115-room Staybridge Suites® - Montgomery-Downtown in Montgomery Alabama. Conveniently located at the junction of Interstate 65 & Interstate 85, Staybridge Suites is an ideal location for business and leisure travellers, shoppers and civil rights history enthusiasts. Read more(0) CommentsWednesday, July 10, 2019Today, the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce, along with state and local elected officials, joined Gerhardi, Inc., at the grand opening of their Montgomery facility, its first in North America. The company has invested $41.6 million in the new facility which will employ up to 235 employees. Read more(1) CommentsWednesday, May 22, 2019Today, TechMGM, the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce’s (MACC) initiative to connect and leverage Montgomery’s unique technology assets, announced a partnership with the Air Force Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate Program Executive Office to host a new Air Force software development project that will offer private sector collaboration called BESPIN. Signifying a shift in the way the Air Force approaches software development and acquisition, BESPIN, an acronym for Business and Enterprise Systems Product Innovation, pairs in-house developers with private sector developers and uses an agile development methodology in a collaborative and innovative environment to turn projects into new solutions to support the Department of Defense. Read more(0) CommentsTuesday, May 21, 2019Travelers spent $972 million and were responsible for 13,817 jobs last year in Montgomery County, according to a report conducted for the Alabama Tourism Department by Montgomery economist Dr. Keivan Deravi. That figure represents a 15.5 percent increase in traveler spending on hotels, restaurants, shopping and transportation from 2017, the largest ever increase in traveler spending of any major Alabama county. Read more(0) CommentsWednesday, May 15, 2019Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and other elected officials joined Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, LLC (HMMA), in a celebration of the grand opening of HMMA’s cylinder head machining plant. The new plant is the third facility at HMMA to support production of more than 650,000 engines per year. The plant represents a $388 million total investment to manufacturing engine cylinder heads and also to enhance existing operations to support the production of new Sonata and Elantra sedan models. This investment also created 50 new jobs. Read more(1) CommentsFriday, May 3, 2019The Montgomery Airport Authority is pleased to announce the selection of Marshall J. Taggart, Jr., C.M. as the incoming director of the Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM). He will assume the top airport leadership role effective May 15, 2019. Read more(2) Comments