Author Archives: Phil Bolton

Chile imports more U.S. goods than India, and Costa Rica imports more than the former Soviet states, Ambassador Charles Gillespie told attendees of an Atlanta conference on Latin America Thursday,...

P. Forrestal, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, paints a generally rosy economic outlook for South America this year. “As economic growth leads to increased incomes in Latin...

Al T. Hays Sales Co., an Atlanta-based  manufacturers’ representative of air and water pollution control equipment, has been selected as the recipient of a $20,000 U.S. government grant through the...

Athens, Ga.-based Rhone Merieux, a world leader in animal health vaccines, announced that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire the animal health operations of French owned Sanofi...

With sales up 13.84% in 1994 thanks to an innovative campaign of opening restaurants in unconventional locations such as at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Chick-fil-A, Inc., the Atlanta-based...

America’s Favorite Chicken Co. announced a joint agreement to open 100 restaurants in the Philippines over seven years. AFC’s accord with Manila-based Sarmiento Group calls for developing 50 Churchs restaurants...

Robert P. Forrestal, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, denied that Canada was headed down the same road to economic distress that Mexico has traveled.  He said economic...

Whitby Inc., a tenant of the Biotechnology Research Park in downtown Richmond, Va., is relocating its U.S. headquarters to Smyrna near to the offices of UCB S.A., its Belgium parent....

ExecuTrain Corp., a computer training firm started in 1984 by four University of Georgia graduates, reported 1994 was “a banner year,” saying it added 15 international franchises and 17 U.S....

Ukrradiotekhnika, a leading Ukrainian manufacturer of electronic equipment, has retained International Security Consultants Inc. (ISC) of Atlanta to attract Western products for manufacture at its facilities, Charles Mittelstadt, ISC’s president...