The U.S. Agriculture Department is recruiting civilian experts to serve at least a year in Afghanistan, helping to rebuild the war-torn country's farm economy. A downside is it's in a...
Author Archives: David Beasley
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Poultry & Egg Export Council Names New VP
Eric Trachtenberg, most recently stationed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beijing, has been named vice president for international trade at the Atlanta-based USA Poultry & Egg Export Council....
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Georgia Tech Launches Dual-Degree Program in Korea
The Georgia Institute of Technology and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology are launching dual-degree programs in electrical and computer engineering. Undergraduates will be able to earn a...
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Atlanta Firm Claims India’s Mahindra Interfering With Financing
The Atlanta company that wants to sell Indian-made Mahindra pickup trucks in the United States claims in court documents that the automaker is interfering with its financing relationships with GMAC...
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Notre Dame Architecture Students Work at Atlantan’s Costa Rica Development
Sixteen fifth-year architecture students from Notre Dame University will work this semester at Las Catalinas, the Costa Rican beach development by Atlantan Charles Brewer. The students will focus on buildings...
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Turkey Joins Europe’s Power Grid With Atlanta Company’s Technology
Turkey will connect to the European electrical grid this month using technology supplied by Atlanta-based GE Energy. GE's smart-grid technology will allow the Turkish Electricity Transmission Co. to buy and...
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Latin American Film Festival Starts Sept. 24 at High Museum
The High Museum of Art will hold a Latin American film festival Sept. 24 to Oct. 30 featuring 15 films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. It...
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An International Business Incubator in Gwinnett
The Gwinnett County warehouse is filled with a German company's baby strollers, made in China, a South African company's beds, sold to the U.S. Army and possibly headed for Afghanistan,...
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Hyundai Will Shift SUV Production to Georgia Kia Plant
The new Kia Motors plant in West Point, Ga., will start making the Hyundai Sante Fe SUV this fall, as production is shifted from Hyundai's Montgomery, Ala., factory, a Hyundai...
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New Board Member for Church’s Chicken
Louie Mele, former president of McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada Ltd., has been named to the board of directors of Atlanta-based Church's Chicken. In addition to the work Mr. Mele did...