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These Are the Foreign Suppliers Already Following Korea’s SK Battery to Georgia

It’s a story Georgia has lived before: A massive Korean plant takes root, followed by a parade of suppliers that end up creating more jobs than the initial record-breaking foreign investment.  The first wave was the Kia Motors plant in West Point, starting in 2007.   According to SK Battery, which is in the midst of […]

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SK Battery Plant Moving Ahead on Schedule as Ruling Looms in Trade Secrets Case

SK Battery’s north Georgia plant remains on schedule despite recent setbacks including a pending dispute that could eventually hamper the growth of the massive electric-vehicle battery complex. The subsidiary of Korea-based SK Innovation has already hired 200 people at the first of two planned plants in Commerce, Ga., where it has committed to investing a total of […]

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Atlanta’s Aptos Buys Iceland-based Retail Software Firm

Atlanta-based retail technology provider Aptos has acquired Icelandic software firm LS Retail for an undisclosed sum.  LS Retail develops software for retail, hospitality, food service and other sectors, offering inventory planning, point of sale and enterprise resource planning in on solution. Based in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, the company’s software is installed through channel partners […]

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British Ambassador Sees Common Goals in Biden’s Plans to Reconnect with the World

Even serving in the United States four times, British Ambassador Karen Pierce has never attended a presidential inauguration.   When it became clear that diplomats would be cleared to join the much-anticipated Jan. 20 installment of President-elect Joe Biden as the next U.S. leader, she jumped at the chance.   “I couldn’t get my acceptance in fast enough,” […]

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2020 in Review: Global Atlanta Founder Honored by Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College for Africa Series

It all started with a chance conversation in 2011 that stemmed from a transatlantic trip. Global Atlanta founder and publisher emeritus Phil Bolton was reporting from Belgium when he found out that the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren would be packing up items from its vast trove of African art and sending them on tour […]

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With $100M Raise, Atlanta’s Newest Unicorn Eyes International Expansion 

SalesLoft may be born and bred in Atlanta, but the nine-year-old sales engagement software provider that just became the city’s newest unicorn is looking beyond U.S. borders to bolster its already impressive growth.  SalesLoft announced Thursday it had raised a $100 million Series E round led by Owl Rock Capital, bringing its total private funding […]

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StationSoccer Founder Awarded Order of the British Empire

Atlanta’s Sanjay Patel was among the few overseas Britons who woke up to the new year with a new honor from his country of origin.  Mr. Patel, director of strategic projects with Soccer in the Streets, this week was awarded the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his “services to […]

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Carter Center, Georgia Business Groups Issue Statements on U.S. Capitol Riots

The Carter Center has observed elections in some of the furthest reaches of the world, helping nascent democracies often in war-torn lands achieve peaceful transitions of power.   Today, the Atlanta-based nonprofit had to turn its sights inward on the U.S., as rioters supportive of outgoing President Donald Trump breached the Capitol in Washington in […]

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Diplomatic Digest: Turnover in Atlanta’s Consular Corps During 2020

As 2021 begins, Atlanta welcomes a modified consular corps bolstered by new diplomats who arrived here during the strangest of times and stocked with those likely kept in the city a bit longer by the pandemic.   In normal times, diplomats taking up new postings here are welcomed with events — dinners, receptions and the […]

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Global Atlanta’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2020 

If any year posed the temptation to chase web traffic by reporting in more detail on politics, 2020 was it.   But even throughout a contentious election year, rocked by racial-justice protests and a raging pandemic, Global Atlanta resisted the temptation to be consumed by the domestic stories that dominated the news cycle.   Of […]

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