Author Archives: Phil Bolton

The groundbreaking ceremony for the Centennial Olympic Games Museum, which will be a 20,000-square-foot addition to the Atlanta History Museum, was held on March 10. Arthur M. Blank, chairman, president...

Atlanta and Miami took the next step in furthering their bids for the Free Trade Area of the Americas secretariat last week, submitting bid packages to government officials throughout the...

Though the effects of globalization will continue to draw jobs in some U.S. industries abroad, a protectionist response would only limit the country's ability to grow export markets in the...

Hemisphere Inc. director Jose Ignacio Gonzalez is to travel to Antigua, Guatemala and Mexico this month to gain support from business and government leaders in those countries for Atlanta's Free...

A recent survey conducted by KPMG LLP found Atlanta to have the seventh lowest overall business costs in a survey of 30 major international cities in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North...

Georgia State University's Center for Business and Industrial Marketing last week issued a feasibility study supporting the development of an American university in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. The proposed school would...

The influx of Caribbean immigrants into the Stone Mountain area has prompted nearby Pine Lake, a small municipality east of Atlanta, to try to revitalize areas in and surrounding the...

Tokyo-based YKK Corp., a worldwide manufacturer of sewn products fasteners and architectural building products, has named the president and CEO of its U.S. affiliate E. Alex Gregory as its first...

Carol A. Levine, a veteran mediator and arbitrator with Atlanta-based Henning Global ADR, has been selected by the commission responsible for Holocaust-Era insurance claims as an arbitrator on an appeals...

Britain's ambassador to the United States, David Manning, will visit Atlanta, March 11-12, for meetings with Gov. Sonny Perdue and with several companies here, not identified by the British Consulate...