For Consignor, the market research came second. Executives from the Norway-based logistics and delivery software firm were at a bar in Shenzhen, China, when they asked some American logistics professionals where they should put their U.S. base. The response was clear and immediate. “They said, ‘Atlanta — that’s a no-brainer,’” said CEO Peter Tang Thomsen, a […]
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Georgia Once Again Parts Ways With China Investment Recruiter
The Georgia Department of Economic Development has once again parted ways with the contractor tasked with recruiting investment from China amid the ongoing U.S.-China trade dispute that has dampened bilateral investment. John Ling, whom Georgia recruited away from rival South Carolina in 2015, was notified in March that his yearly contract with Georgia would not […]
Georgia Announces $130 Million Chinese Investment — Without Mentioning China
GE Appliances is planning to invest a total of $130 million in Georgia, a win for the state’s Chinese investment efforts despite happening under a storied American brand name. Qingdao, China-based appliance giant Haier Group purchased GE’s appliance unit for $5.6 billion in 2016, giving the company a recognizable mark and a huge operational footprint […]
Coca-Cola, AGCO Execs Comprise Atlanta Presence at U.S.-Africa Summit
Executives from Coca-Cola Co. and AGCO Corp. have speaking roles at this week’s U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Moputo, Mozambique, comprising the limited Atlanta corporate presence at the three-day summit. Both companies are heavy investors in Africa, with Coca-Cola serving 54 countries via franchised bottling systems and unrivaled local distribution networks, while AGCO, the Duluth-based tractor and […]
Italy Once Again Commits to Beefing Up Commercial Outreach in Atlanta
On the surface, it looks like we’ve been here before. Italy’s consul general came to Atlanta in 2016 with the idea of launching a chapter of the Miami-based Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of the Southeast. In fact, the idea of such an outpost has been circulating since at least 2014, when Global Atlanta first reported […]
China Gets a Taste of Atlanta-Owned ‘Hot Dog on a Stick’
Atlanta-based Global Franchise Group LLC has launched the first Hot Dog on a Stick franchise in China as the California-born brand expands the reach of its decidedly American concept in Asia. Founded on a beach in Santa Monica in 1946, Hot Dog on a Stick has spent seven decades serving up its namesake item, but […]
Companies Outline Potential Georgia Effects of Trump’s Latest Proposed China Tariffs
Relative to earlier measures, the response has been somewhat muted, but companies with Georgia operations are outlining potential effects of President Trump’s latest round of proposed 25 percent tariffs on $300 billion in Chinese goods. Public comments and requests to testify at a June 17 public hearing are due by the end of Monday. Georgia […]
Atlanta’s Renewvia Lands Spot at Global Entrepreneurship Summit
Renewvia, an Atlanta-based solar provider, landed a spot at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in The Hague this week thanks to its deployment of microgrid systems in East Africa. The smaller solar systems now in use in Kenyan fishing villages are monetized through a prepaid mobile payments platform the company developed in-house. The goal is to […]
Dutch Firm to Put Light Assembly Plant in Cherokee County
A subsidiary of Dutch manufacturer Thomas Regout International B.V. will put $2 million into its first U.S. facility in Cherokee County as it tackles the educational and corporate segments of the audiovisual equipment market. The company makes telescoping sliding systems used in a wide variety of sectors, from automotive sunroofs to ATMs, but the U.S. assembly […]
How Jack Dorsey’s Love of Maps, Cities Helped Birth Twitter, Square
Twitter co-founder CEO Jack Dorsey has never been particularly passionate about computers, and in fact confirmed on that social media platform that he doesn’t use either a laptop or a tablet despite running two public companies. But it was the humble PC that set him about solving problems that ultimately would lead to the emergence […]
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