The day after the Atlanta airport first welcomed Southwest Airlines Inc. flights, the the low-cost carrier’s chief executive reached out to the local Hispanic business community. Southwest CEO Gary Kelly attended the Latin American Chamber of Commerce of...
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Chamber Leader to Promote German State
The German state of Lower Saxony is beefing up its presence in Atlanta, starting with a new representative. Silke Miehlke, director of consulting services for the German-American Chamber of Commerce...
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UPS Buys European Online Fulfillment Firm
Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc. has acquired European consumer delivery specialist Kiala SA/NV, which is based in Brussels. The acquisition underscores UPS’s commitment to fulfilling e-commerce in regions where it operates ground networks...
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Danish Chamber Honors Starlet Scarlett Johansson
The Danish-American Chamber of Commerce Georgia has honored Scarlett Johansson with its Danish-American actress of the year award. The 27-year-old New York native, who has appeared in “Lost in Translation”, “We Bought a...
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British Shipping Firm Moves Base to Atlanta
SBS Worldwide, a British logistics firm, moved its U.S. headquarters from Chicago to Atlanta at the beginning of the year. Reasoning behind the move was simple: better connections that enable better customer service, executives said. “It was an...
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Emory to Host India Summit March 2-3
The Indian ambassador to the United States, Nirupama Rao, is to join the author Salman Rushdie as a speaker at the third annual India Summit on March 2-3 at Emory University....
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Global Soap Project Names Executive Director
The Atlanta-based Global Soap Project has hired Sam Stephens as executive director to handle its day-to-day operations. The soap project, founded in 2009 by Uganda native Derreck Kayongo, collects used soap from hotels and recycles it into new...
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Friendship Force Celebrates History, Builds for Future
Friendship Force International is celebrating three and a half decades of history by investing in its future. The Atlanta-based organization, which facilitates home stays and people-to-people exchanges in more than 50 countries,...
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Former State Official Sets Sights on Brazilian Tourism
A former state tourism official predicts that Brazil will become Georgia’s second-largest tourist market this year, and is so impressed by the opportunities that he left his post to join...
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Ambassador Q&A: Dividing Oil’s Spoils in Saudi Arabia
There’s a huge gap, both in understanding and distance, between Saudi Arabia and Georgia. But the largest economy in the Middle East, flush with oil money allocated to diversifying its industrial base, had no trouble...