The Taiwanese Junior Chamber of Commerce of Georgia honored a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Republican candidate for Secretary of State at its annual “Taste of […]
Author Archives: Phil Bolton
Phil Bolton is the founder and publisher emeritus of Global Atlanta.
Posted inBusiness
Chamber Event Highlights Belgium’s Innovation Capacity for Successes of Georgia Companies in Europe
Belgium‘s multilingualism with three official languages and a host of dialects and “minority languages” fuels the country’s creativity, a value which was repeatedly underscored at an evening meeting of the […]
Posted inBusiness, Food
Georgia’s Ag Department Looks Overseas for New Markets to Compensate for Tariff Losses
Newly arrived in July at the Georgia Department of Agriculture in charge of business development overseas for Georgia produce, Paul Thompson was off immediately to Indonesia. After seven and a […]
Posted inBusiness, Diplomacy, Education
World Affairs Council to Feature Japan-U.S. Relations With Former U.S. Security Chief Who Takes Hard Line on China
With Asia’s political and economic underpinnings in flux, Japan has “stepped out to take the lead” Adm. Dennis Blair told Global Atlanta during a telephone interview related to his upcoming […]
Posted inDiplomacy
In Unusual Move Sweden’s Honorary Consul Also Assumes Norwegian Post
As the honorary consul of Sweden, Atlanta attorney Tom Rosseland gets a lot of foot traffic in his office at One Securities Centre in Buckhead. The Swedish government requires its […]
Posted inBusiness
Arby’s to Expand Dramatically in South Korea
Atlanta’s recently formed Inspire Brands is teaming up with the S Fresh Co., a South Korean food service firm, to build 100 new Arby’s restaurants in South Korea, marking Arby’s […]
Posted inTrade
Canada, Japan and Korea’s Consuls General Talk Trade and Tariffs at Chatham County Summit
Nadia Theodore, Canada‘s consul general based in Atlanta, told Global Atlanta that she enjoyed the 2018 Georgia International Trade and Commerce Summit held in Chatham County earlier in August because […]
Posted inBusiness, Sports
MARTA Joined by Soccer in the Streets in Furthering Atlanta’s ‘League of Stations’
What began as an inspired vision of a network of soccer fields around Atlanta’s major transit stations in 2016 has taken another forward pass with the announcement that two new […]
Posted inBusiness, Economic Development
Jaguar Land Rover Sales and Rehab Center to Open in Savannah
The United Kingdom-based Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC, a subsidiary of the Indian company Tata Motors, is to open its first U.S. “Works Centre” in Savannah in the summer of […]
Posted inBusiness, Trade
Georgia U.S. Sen. Isakson Takes on Trump Tariffs
With tariffs becoming a wedge issue not only between the Democrat and Republican political parties, it also is revealing splits among the Republicans. U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, a leader of […]