Atlanta-based AirWatch LLC has announced the appointments of two former Manhattan Associates Inc. executives to senior positions. Jeff Mitchell is to lead AirWatch’s sales operations in North and South America,...
Author Archives: Phil Bolton
Phil Bolton is the founder and publisher emeritus of Global Atlanta.
Posted inArchive, Culture
Atlanta Couple Impressed by Reverence of White House Diwali Ceremonies
Viren Mayani, the president-elect of the Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, had visited the White House upon graduation from college as a tourist. But on Nov. 3, he and his wife, Rifka, returned for...
Posted inArchive, Economic Development
Korean Hankook Tire Distributor Chooses Liberty County
Hankook tires are to be distributed throughout the Southeast from Liberty County’s Tradeport East Business Center, the county’s development authority announced Nov. 8. Hankook Tire American Corp., the U.S. subsidiary of Seoul,...
Posted inArchive, Business
Atlanta Fed CEO Forecasts Mix of Stimulus Policies for U.S. Growth
Dennis Lockhart, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said Nov. 8 that he expects an “improved economy in 2014.” But during his presentation at the Ole...
Posted inArchive, Business
Foreign Manufacturers Outpacing Domestic in Georgia
Georgia international manufacturing in the third quarter outpaced Kennesaw University’s Georgia Purchasing Managers Index, which measures manufacturing activity. The Georgia International Business Index, a quarterly survey conducted by Kennesaw State’s...
Posted inArchive, Economic Development
French Chamber Awards Highlight Positive Prospects for Southeast
Airbus SAS’s investment of $600 million into an assembly plant for its A320 family of aircraft in Mobile, Ala., would have been unimaginable 17 years ago when she joined the...
Posted inArchive, Economic Development
Atlanta NGOs to Celebrate Anti-Trachoma Campaign in Ethiopia
The campaign in Ethiopia to distribute a Pfizer Inc. drug that helps eliminate the blinding trachoma disease is to be celebrated on Sunday, Nov. 10, in the country’s Amhara Region....
Posted inArchive, Business
Atlanta’s Strength as a Payments Hub Bolsters Parkmobile
The benefits of presenting her company at the Venture Atlanta annual meeting held Oct. 22-23 at the Georgia Aquarium are evident already, Cherie Fuzzell, CEO of Parkmobile USA Inc., told...
Posted inArchive, Business
French Elder Care Firms to Attend Atlanta’s Health IT Summit
Representatives of eight technology companies focused on the health care of seniors are to visit Atlanta Nov. 11-13 to establish new partnerships between France and the United States. Under the...
Posted inNamibia
Atlanta Attorney Appointed Namibia’s Honorary Consul
Alan G. Gorman, an attorney in the Atlanta office of the law firm of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, has been appointed honorary consul of Namibia for Georgia. In his announcement...