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CommonSpirit Memorial Hospital, Ringgold, Georgia Northwest Technical College Top 12 Employers: Catoosa County, GA TRAINING PROFESSIONALS enrollment, apprenticeships and seaport on the East Coast. The Appalachian
with Administrator Angie Stiggins • Catoosa County Public Schools Georgia Northwestern Technical College internships, equips students to lead Regional Port, through CSX, provides a
• Costco Wholesale (GNTC) offers programs of study specific in their fields, as they will already be direct, 388-mile rail route to the Georgia
connected with the people, the knowledge,
to the needs of Catoosa County’s existing
Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal.
• Five Star Food Service manufacturing industries and provides and the passion to succeed.
• Food City skilled employees for the area’s workforce. For air travel, Catoosa County is about
• Lake Winnepesaukah Amusements The GNTC campus is across from the Rollins LABOR FORCE 110 miles from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
Catoosa County’s population is nearly
• Lowe’s Home Centers, Inc. Business Center. GNTC is also the area’s 70,000 people and its labor force numbers International Airport, the world’s busiest
provider for Georgia Quick Start, the nation’s
• NHC of Fort Oglethorpe number one workforce training program, more than 35,000 in the county, and more airport, and 15 miles from Chattanooga
Metropolitan Airport.
• Propex Operating Company, LLC working with qualified companies to provide than 280,000 in the labor draw area.
• Publix Super Market, Inc. customized employee training at no cost to Approximately 25% of the labor force have INDUSTRY ASSISTANCE
some college level training.
• Shaw Industries Group, Inc. the company. At the Top of Georgia, economic
• Solmax The Catoosa County Public School System’s TRANSPORTATION development is led by the Northwest
• Walmart From Here to Career College & Career Catoosa County is a 30-minute drive to Georgia Joint Development Authority and
* Northwest Georgia Joint Development Authority (Data shown Academy trains our next generation of young Georgia’s Appalachian Regional Port, an includes the counties of Catoosa, Chattooga,
Dade and Walker, all within the larger
for Q1 2025. Employers are listed alphabetically, not by the
Catoosa County has the first four interstate exits number of employees. Source: Georgia Department of Labor) people entering the workforce. The academy, inland port that is a powerful gateway to Chattanooga Metropolitan Statistical Area.
the Port of Savannah, the second-busiest
through academic instruction, dual college
off I-75 from Tennessee into Georgia, making us
the Gateway to Georgia. Take an exit and you’ll
find the area rich in forested scenery, Civil War
history, and centers of industry. Catoosa County is
home to the City of Ringgold – the county seat –
the City of Fort Oglethorpe, and part of the towns
of Tunnel Hill and Rossville.
Northwest Georgia is known as the center of the
floor covering industry and is home to the top four
carpet industry companies. We produce 85% of
the nation’s manufactured carpet.
Choose Auto supply manufacturing and auto supply
industry jobs are growing to meet demand as
major automobile plants are anchored in the tri-
state region: Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Kia and
CATOOSA COUNTY Hyundai in South Georgia, and Mercedes Benz
and Hyundai in Alabama.

Prime appliance manufacturing is also a major
employer in the area.
Smart economic development is creating balanced communities. Ringgold’s Rollins Business Center on Highway

151 – within one mile of Exit 348 on I-75 – is the
home of many manufacturers in the 500-acre
industrial park.

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