The Clermont County-based company will invest $1 million to open a sales office in downtown Knoxville to meet the needs of its expanding client base, creating at least 100 new jobs over the next five years, according to Total Quality’s release.
Also, Knoxville represents TQL’s second expansion in Tennessee in just over a year. In January 2014, TQL invested $1 million to open its first Tennessee office in downtown Nashville.
“We anticipate big things from this office. Its location at the foot of the Great Smokey Mountains, combined with its highway accessibility and local talent pool, make it a perfect fit for our needs,” said TQL President Kerry Byrne in a written statement.
Knoxville joins previous announcements made so far this year for new sales offices in Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Dallas, Texas; and the first west coast location in Portland, Ore. Plans are also to open next month in Las Vegas, Nev., and later this year in Richmond, Va., said spokesman Mark Motz. Those moves into Nevada and Virginia will expand TQL operations to states No. 18 and 19, Motz said.
The Knoxville site doesn’t open until July, he said.
Another Ohio office location is brewing, as the Ohio Tax Credit Authority approved in December tax breaks for the project, although a final location has yet to be named.
TQL, which has sales offices in Centerville and West Chester Twp., is the Tristate’s largest privately-held business. The company acts as a middle man in the transportation industry. Its staff negotiates truck loads, rates and destinations between the companies that need products hauled and the truck carriers that deliver goods.
TQL employs more than 3,000 people across the country, according to the company.
Last year the fast growing logistics company surpassed $2 billion in sales.
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