Edward Jones is named after Edward D. Jones , who founded the company in 1922 in downtown St. Louis as a single-room office furnished with a desk, three chairs, and a hatrack. The firm has since grown to provide financial investment advice to over 7 million individuals and small business owners throughout the US and […]

When Frank S. Davis started the first national bank in Memphis in 1864, he planted the seed for what would eventually grow into First Horizon National. Over 150 years later, First Horizon National has became  a family of companies that include First Tennessee Bank, providing products and services for both business and consumer clients to […]

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services is a leading provider of “captive financial services”—that is, a subsidiary that offers credit, leasing, insurance, and/or other types of loans to customers buying the parent company’s products. In this case, the parent company is Daimler AG (formed in 1926 via a formal merger of German automobile manufacturers Benz & Cie. and […]

Pinnacle Financial Partners is a bank and financial services company headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 2000, and currently has nearly 35 branches. Pinnacle Financial Partners ranked #4 on Fortune Magazine’s June 2015 list of 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials. According to Communications SVP Sarae Janes, Pinnacle Financial Partners employs a variety of […]

State Farm was founded in 1922 by George Jacob “G.J.” Mecherle. And from the start, it was driven by innovation. Annette R. Martinez, State Farm’s VP of Human Resources, told us “(Mecherle) looked at the insurance industry and said, ‘I have a new idea.’ And he went and actually pitched this to an insurance company. […]