GE Energy has spent nearly $5 million to add a new production line at its plant in Ózd, Hungary. The nearly 12-year-old factory makes circuit breakers and other safety devices for...
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AGCO Promotes Head of China and India
AGCO Corp. has promoted the vice president overseeing the Duluth-based farm-equipment company's operations in the increasingly important China and India markets. Andreas Weishaar was named vice president over operations in...
Posted inArchive, Economic Development
Atlanta Delegation Visits Liberia to Drum Up Business
A delegation of businesspeople, academics and pastors traveled to the western African nation Liberia in March to lay the groundwork for future collaborations between Atlanta and the country. "There is a significant...
Posted inArchive, Education
Fed Presidents Say Banks Not Responsible for Job Losses
The presidents of the Federal Reserve banks of Atlanta and Dallas during a recent meeting at Georgia State University pretty much put to rest the argument that small- to medium-sized...
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Mexico Top Market for U.S. Poultry Exports
Restrictions on poultry exports to China and Russia made Mexico the largest consumer of U.S. poultry last year, according to the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council, headquartered in Stone...
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East West Adds Sales Support for Vietnam
East West Manufacturing, an Atlanta-based firm that provides offshore product manufacturing in Asia, has hired a new staffer to interact with customers using the company's Vietnam factories. Rachel Halligan has been named engineered products sales...
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Atlanta to Host Four Chinese Delegations
At least four Chinese delegations will visit Atlanta in the coming months to discuss investment and solidify government relationships. The Chicago-based U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce is bringing Han Jiuyun, vice...
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Dallas Fed President Favors Foreign Grads Staying Here
Raised in Mexico, Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, is a first-generation American, so he has a personal interest in immigration issues. He regaled about 250...
Posted inArchive, Culture
Chinese Governor Blown Away by ‘Gone With the Wind’
Zhou Qiang, the governor and Communist Party chief of central China's Hunan province, had less than a day to spend in Atlanta in February. Some of that time was tied...
Posted inArchive, Education
Emory Website to Track African Slave Origins
A team of scholars at Emory University has launched a website that uses names and linguistic analysis to uncover the likely origins of Africans sold into the trans-Atlantic slave trade....