Tupelo, Mississippi

===Industry===
* Tupelo is the headquarters of the North Mississippi Medical Center, the largest non-metropolitan hospital in the United States.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} It serves people in North Mississippi, northwest Alabama, and portions of Tennessee. The medical center was a winner of the prestigious [[Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award|Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award]] in 2006 and 2012.<ref name="ABABJ" />
* The headquarters of two large banking institutions are located here: [[Cadence Bank]], with approximately nearly $48&nbsp;billion in assets (2024), and [[Renasant Bank]], with assets of more than $17&nbsp;billion (2024). Tupelo is the smallest U.S. city that hosts the headquarters of more than one bank with over $10&nbsp;billion in assets.<ref name="ABABJ" />
* The city is a five-time "[[All-America City Award]]" winner.
*In 1963, [[Ralph J. Roberts]], along with Daniel Aaron and [[Julian A. Brodsky]] purchased American Cable Systems, a small cable operator in Tupelo. American Cable was re-incorporated in Pennsylvania as [[Comcast]].
* It has a large [[furniture]] [[manufacturing]] [[Industry (economics)|industry]]. The journalist Dennis Seid noted that furniture manufacturing in Northeast Mississippi, "provid[ed] some 22,000 jobs, or almost 13% of the region's employment... with a $732 million annual payroll... producing $2.25 billion worth of goods."<ref>Dennis Seid, ''The Northeast Mississippi Business Journal'', February 2006</ref>
* Tecumseh, [[Heritage Home Group]], [[Hancock Fabrics]], Inc., Magnolia Fabrics, [[Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi]], H.M. Richards, JESCO Construction, [[MTD Products]], Savings Oil Company (Dodge's Stores), and [[Cooper Tire & Rubber Company]] all operate or are headquartered in Tupelo and Lee County. Renin Corporation, a subsidiary of [[BBX Capital Corporation]], operates a production centre in Tupelo which employed 50 but an expansion in 2017 expected to increase staffing to 100.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.areadevelopment.com/newsItems/5-26-2017/renin-corporation-manufacturing-plant-tupelo-mississippi.shtml|title=Renin Corporation Expands Tupelo, Mississippi, Production Center|date=May 26, 2017|website=Areadevelopment.com|access-date=November 13, 2021}}</ref>