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Dickson County Business Climate Remains Hot

Opportunity continues to knock for the business sector in Dickson County, with several success stories to choose from. Here are some of them: Food Manufacturers The county is home to Odom's Tennessee Pride Real Country Sausage, which has been around since 1943 and has only two manufacturing facilities in the U.S. – one in Dickson and the other in Arkansas. Tennessee Bun Company in Dickson manufactures more than 1,000 buns a minute and has a product line of 20 different bun varieties,... Read More »
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Dickson, TN Top Employers

Dickson’s proximity to Nashville has made it a regional hub for retail and manufacturing and provides job-seekers with a perfect harmony of big city and country life. Here are Dickson County’s top employers.   Tennsco Corporation, 510 employees, industrial shelving Horizon Medical Center, 400, health care Tennessee Quality Foods, 320, food processing Quebecor Gravure, 300, offset printing Interstate Packaging, 220, packaging printer Read More »

Agri-Tourism Grows in Dickson County as Farmers Branch Out

When Dickson County farmer Steve Shafer told his wife he wanted to turn their Three Creeks Farm into a tourist destination‚ she was skeptical. “My reaction‚” says Beth Collier‚ “was‚ ‘Yeah right‚ who’s going to pay to go to a farm?’ ” But after hearing more‚ Collier was convinced‚ and in 2005‚ the couple began offering tours of their 56-acre farm seven miles north of Dickson. At Three Creeks Farm‚ visitors can touch and feed the animals‚ which include exhibition chickens and pheasants‚ Cashmere... Read More »