Mika Jennings, a freight forwarder with Hitachi Transport System (America), Ltd., and a transportation logistics manager with GE-Hitachi HVB, Inc., has been elected president of the Atlanta Women in...
Author Archives: Phil Bolton
Phil Bolton is the founder and publisher emeritus of Global Atlanta.
Atlantan Insists Algeria Ripe For Commerce
A veteran of conducting business in difficult foreign markets, Gordon Harnesberger, president of Atlanta-based Worldwide Marketing Corporation, returned from a trip to Algeria recently convinced that Africa's second largest...
Philippine American Chambers Meet Here
The Third National Convention of the Federation of Philippine American Chambers of Commerce, including 39 chapters from throughout the United States, will convene in Atlanta this week. A...
Vows to Set Ties Between Carrollton And France’s Bayeux
Vows to develop cultural and academic ties between the French city of Bayeux and the city of Carrollton were warmly exchanged last week thanks to a replica of an...
Randstad’s Vonk To Be Dutch Consul Pending U.S. Okay
The appointment of Erik Vonk to honorary consul of the Netherlands in Atlanta is undergoing a routine review by the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Vonk is a member...
InterTrade ’98 Draws Affiliates of Williams, Benator Libby CPAs
Affiliates of the Atlanta-based CPA and business advisory firm of Williams Benator & Libby in Brazil, England, France and Ireland will be represented at InterTrade '98 to be held...
Business Roundtable Here on Africa
The Southeast regional conference on Africa to be held this week in Atlanta will feature local businessmen already conducting business in Africa and senior African government officials at the...
Ratajczak Sees Strong European Growth Due to EMU
Donald Ratajczak, director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University, said during a lecture in Buckhead April 23 he is beginning to notice the same sort of...
Kazuo Iida to Chair Japan Chamber of Ga.
Kazuo Iida, general manager of the Atlanta agency of the Industrial Bank of Japan, was elected as the chairman of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Georgia at the...
Jean Moreau New President of French-American Chamber
F. Jean Moreau, who is a foreign legal specialist with the Atlanta law firm of Lackland & Heyward and has practiced law in both France and the U.S. for...
