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Come Grow With the Albertville Chamber of Commerce

If you live in Albertville, are an Albertville business owner, or a potential industry looking to locate here, odds are, you've noticed what an outstanding job the Albertville Chamber of Commerce has been doing lately to help promote your cause and cultivate local shopping habits. Many people think the chamber is a deparment of the city, and, understandably so, as it's absolutely imperative that the two us work together to build a better business and overall sense of community, period, for Albertville. We are, however, two completely separate entities. They are a 501c(6) nonprofit agency that relies solely on memberships, sponsors, and grants as means of funding. For many years, the chamber has simply "gotten by' and done the best they could with what they had.
Ribbon Cutting, Southern Rustic Designs
About six months ago, a new President was hired, Mr. Stan Witherow, to take over and try to grow the Albertville Chamber, and growth, is exactly what it's experiencing! In just six short months, memberships have increased by nearly 50 businesses that had either dropped their membership prior to the chamber's upward turn, or had never been a member in the past. You can't drive through downtown without seeing a host of people posing for a picture holding a giant pair of scissors ready to cut the ribbon and celebrate their new store opening, or becoming a new member of Albertville Chamber of Commerce! 

We rely heavily on our partnership with the Chamber, as members of our economic development team with the city, and depend on their support once we recruit new business in the area, to help promote and cultivate an atmosphere for success so they are able to sustain. We couldn't be more proud of the job they're currently doing and are excited for what's to come in the future for the business community of Albertville! 

Ribbon Cutting, Old Napoli Italian Cuisine
Ribbon Cutting, Trufit Industrial 

Earlier this month, we had the pleasure of attending the 64th Annual Chamber of Commerce Banquet where the theme for the 2019-2020 campaign was announced a:

 "Come Grow With Us." 



The room was adorned with greenery to symbolize the growth they hope to have experienced a year from now. With the energy in the room, you could almost feel the standard changing, shifting, and improving. The excitement was undeniable, contagious. If we could feel it, we knew our business leaders could too, and, that, friends, is the BEST free advertising we could ask for to make the statement that Albertville is a good steward for entrepreneurship. 

64th Annual Albertville Chamber Banquet

We are looking forward for what's to come, never forgetting challenges and struggles of the past that brought us here, but embracing the GROWTH that's in front of us. 

We, on behalf of the Albertville Chamber of Commerce, invite you to "Come Grow With Us!" 

We also remind you that membership of the Chamber isn't a passport to guaranteed success. Lucrative commerce is something that's built over time. It requires business owners and leaders to put in what they would like to get out of their membership. Be involved. Be seen. People want to do business with people they see being active and willing in their communities, supporting other business owners, and doing their part to help us all grow, together. The Albertville Chamber of Commerce and the City of Albertville are committed to supporting our business and industrial community in every way we can. We ask you to help our efforts by being visible, involved, and an active part of growing with us!



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