Tennessee

Capital: Nashville
Population: 6,214,888 (2008 est.)
Unemployment rate: 10,5% (Oct 2009)
Number of German subsidiaries: 80

Industry:
• Cotton
• Cattle breeding, poultry
• Electrical power
• Meat processing
• Chemical industry
• Engineering and Automotive Engineering
• Textile industry
• Timber industry
• Tobacco, cotton, soy beans, corn
• Forestry
• Mining (coal, pyrite, zinc ore, phosphate)
• Tourism  (Great Smoky Mountains National Park)

Infrastructure:
Seventeen Interstates, six airports

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GACC South Tennessee Chapter:
Mr. Peter Caldwell (Chapter Director)
829 Pipers Lane
Brentwood, TN 37027
Phone: (615) 376 4566
Fax: (615) 376 4557
E-mail: caldwell.p(at)comcast.net
Homepage: http://www.gaccsouth.com/en/chapters/tennessee/scevents(at)gaccsouth.com