Trevor Williams

Trevor Williams is the managing editor of Global Atlanta.

Dutch Firm to Buy Peachtree City’s Cooper Lighting for $1.4 billion

The former Philips Lighting business based in the Netherlands has agreed to purchase Peachtree City-based Cooper Lighting for $1.4 billion. Eindhoven-based Signify, which the company has been called since 2018, said the acquisition of Cooper from Eaton Corp. would strengthen its position in North America, particularly in the professional space, as well as in the […]

Crystal Peach Awards Celebrate French Innovations, Partnerships in Atlanta

Atlanta is becoming a bona fide proving ground for French innovations accessing the U.S. market, bolstered by an array of longstanding city partnerships. That was the message of the French-American Chamber of Commerce’s 15th annual Crystal Peach Awards celebrating investment links between the Southeast U.S. and France. Awardees represented future-facing investments— like the $3 million cybersecurity center opened […]

Atlanta Global Health Summit: Urbanization Presents Challenges for Stemming Outbreaks

Is the migration of the masses to cities a good or bad thing for global public health? Arriving at one answer isn’t so simple, says Rebecca Martin, director of the Center for Global Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The clustering of populations, often in areas without city services or access […]

CARE Brings the Global Fight for Girls’ Empowerment Home to Atlanta

This year, the international nonprofit CARE will for the first time conduct poverty-alleviation work in Atlanta, instituting a savings program for women based on a model that took off first in Niger. Village Savings and Loan Associations brings women together in local financial cooperatives, allowing them to pool funds to preserve personal wealth and issue loans to […]

Lebanon’s New Honorary Consul to Focus on Small Business, Trade

Lebanon has named a new diplomat to represent its interests in the state of Georgia. Restaurant and retail entrepreneur Wassim Hojeij was approved by the U.S. State Department Aug. 1 to serve as the state’s first honorary consul from an Arab League nation. Mr. Hojeij came to Atlanta as a student at 22 and later […]

Dutch Chamber, Consulate Taking Nominations for Half Moon Awards

The Netherlands-American Chamber of Commerce of the Southeast is seeking nominations for awards recognizing contributions to the Dutch-American relationships. The Halve Maen (Half Moon) awards are named after the Dutch East India Company vessel that arrived in what is now New York harbor in the early 1600s. It was captained by Henry Hudson, namesake of […]

GLOBE Export Award Applications Open

The Georgia Department of Economic Development has opened applications for its yearly celebration of export achievement. GLOBE Awards — Georgians Leveraging Opportunities By Exporting — are given to companies based in the state that have expanded into a new country in a given year. Applications are being accepted through Nov. 1, with companies needing to […]

Fleetcor’s Payments Tech to Be Installed on All New Nissans Made in Brazil

Atlanta-based fintech firm Fleetcor has landed a new automotive partnership that will deepen its already significant reach in Brazil. Each new Nissan made in the country will come with Fleetcor-owned Sem Parar’s RFID tags pre-installed, making it easier for customers to pay at toll booths, gas stations, parking decks and even McDonald’s restaurants with their […]

Adams and Reese Names New Partner in Global Trade, Logistics Practice

Brian F. Hansen has joined the Atlanta law office of Adams and Reese LLP as a partner in its global trade, transportation and logistics practice. Mr. Hansen has deep experience in litigation defending logistics, trucking and poultry companies in accident cases, as well as a focus on construction law, where he has successful prosecuted claims […]

European Consulates Team Up for Atlanta Pride March

For the first time, the consulates of the European Union in Atlanta will march together at the Atlanta Pride Festival Oct. 13. The diplomatic offices of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland and the Netherlands banded together to support the 49th annual march, which they said shows the city’s long history of fighting against discrimination of […]

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