After two years at the helm, Ard Crebas has relinquished the reins as president of the Netherlands-American Chamber of Commerce Southeast U.S. But he’s not falling far in the chain of command: Mr. Crebas, a senior vice president with InterTrust Group, will now serve as vice president, switching roles with Manori De Silva, an attorney […]
Trevor Williams
Emerging From Uncertainty, Atlanta’s Israeli Consulate Looks to Future
The newly arrived Israeli consul general in Atlanta must have no shortage of items on her agenda, from continuing interfaith dialogue to deepening investment ties between Israel and the Southeast. But as recently as last year, the consulate’s very existence could not be taken for granted. Anat Sultan-Dadon, a veteran diplomat, arrived in July from […]
Gulfstream Approves Two Brazil Maintenance Centers
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. has approved two new companies to provide warranty and maintenance service on the Savannah-based company’s private jets in Latin America. Líder Aviação and Aero Rio Táxi Aéreo are based in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, respectively. The two cities are the base for more than half of the 40 Gulfstream aircraft […]
Japan-Backed Factory in South Georgia Aims to Offset Glass Bottle Imports
Arglass Yamamura LLC, a joint venture between a New York investment firm and a Japanese glass manufacturer, is investing $123 million to build a new plant in south Georgia with the goal of hiring 150 people, Gov. Brian Kemp’s office announced Thursday. Site work on the plant in Valdosta is already under way with the startup of the […]
Cortland Buys U.K. Apartment Developer
Atlanta apartment giant Cortland, which has about 55,000 units in 18 U.S. cities, has purchased the U.K. firm LIV Group in Leeds as it continues an expansion into that market. Cortland CEO Steven DeFrancis told the Atlanta Business Chronicle that the acquisition would ensure the company doesn’t have to start from scratch in a market that is […]
Atlanta Fintech Firm Ebix Makes Largest India Buy Yet in Bid to Grow Travel Portfolio
Atlanta-based Ebix Inc. just made its biggest acquisition yet in a buying spree aimed at making the company’s Indian subsidiary into the top provider of exchanges for foreign currency and travel services. EbixCash announced in July the all-stock deal to acquire Yatra Online Inc. which operates one of India’s largest travel marketplaces at Yatra.com. Ebix paid the […]
Georgia Indian Groups to Help Welcome Prime Minister Modi to Texas
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent re-election wasn’t met with the same breathless optimism as when he swept into power in 2014. Some blame stalled progress on economic reforms and worries about his Bharatiya Janata Party’s Hindu nationalist bent. Still, his sound victory at home and his acceptance by the Indian diaspora in the United […]
Georgia Reaffirms Oldest Japanese State Partnership
Georgia’s relationship with Japan may stretch back to 1853, when a state official joined the first U.S. trade delegation to the country, but it took another century for ties to truly blossom into a formalized partnership. That dimension began in 1966 when then-Gov. Carl Sanders signed a sister-state relationship with Kagoshima prefecture, the southernmost of […]
Porsche Introduces International Carbon Offsets to U.S. Customers
Porsche Cars North America has unveiled an online tool to help its customers calculate carbon emissions and offset them by donating to four worldwide projects. The Atlanta-based unit of the German auto maker is working with Switzerland’s South Pole to provide the vetted opportunities. Unlike some programs that ask for donations and simply guarantee that the money […]
Italy’s Rivacold Picks Gwinnett for $5M Plant
Rivacold, an Italian manufacturer of refrigeration systems, is investing $5 million to set up its first U.S. factory in Buford. The move will mean 140 jobs for the community, including skilled manufacturing positions, according to a news release from Partnership Gwinnett. The Montevecchio, Italy-based firm’s compressor systems and condensing units are used in the food, retail, medical, dairy and other […]
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