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Article: Comics distributor leaving Memphis.(Company overview)

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The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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August 29, 2007
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Byline: Amos Maki

Aug. 29--Diamond Comics Distributors Inc. is leaving Memphis for a 68-acre site in Olive Branch, where it will more than double its local warehouse space.

The company is vacating a 265,000-square-foot location in the 709,000-square-foot Memphis Trade Center III on East Holmes Road and is moving into a 600,000-square-foot build-to-suit distribution center built by Milan, Tenn.-based H&M Company Inc.

Neither Diamond officials nor officials with the DeSoto County Economic Development Council would comment.

Founded in 1982, Diamond has emerged as the "world's largest distributor of English-language comics and related ...

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