Small and minority-owned firms in Atlanta have been increasingly successful in obtaining supply contracts with such large multinationals as Delta Air Lines and Lockheed Martin Corp., but may now...
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Kennedy Returns to Hartsfield as Marketing Director
Robert Kennedy, former president of Kennedy & Associates aviation industry consultants, has been appointed director of marketing, public relations and intergovernmental affairs for the City of Atlanta’s Aviation Department...
Poultry Council Backs Granting President โFast Trackโ Powers
Granting trade promotion authority to President Bush would mean more production and more jobs for Georgia’s poultry industry, Toby Moore, communications director for the Stone Mountain-based USA Poultry & Egg...
Swedenโs Honorary Consul Sets Up Consulting Firm
Jan Meijer, Sweden’s honorary consul general in Atlanta, has resigned from his position as chief executive of Thomas Concrete Industries Inc.’s U.S. operations to provide consulting services through his own...
Better Security Seen For U.S.-Canada Border
A border agreement between Canada and the U.S. will result in better security for trade and travel across the world’s longest shared boundary, according to Astrid Pregel, Canada’s Atlanta-based...
Maus Wants Business To Openly Back Driver Licenses for Illegals
Despite the 35,000 Georgians’ signatures collected by the Coordinating Council of Latino Community Leaders of Atlanta in support of undocumented workers obtaining driver’s licenses, the council’s president, Teodoro Maus,...
Marietta-based Franchise Restaurant Opens in Kuwait
The first international location of Buffalo’s Southwest Café opened its doors in Salmiya, Kuwait Dec. 12, nearly three years after a Kuwaiti businessman first approached the Marietta-based restaurant system...
Georgia Forestry Products are Likely Exports to Cuba
Forestry products are one of Georgia’s strongest potential exports to Cuba, Andres Villegas, director of international trade and marketing for the state’s agriculture department, told GlobalFax. He will discuss...
Georgia Indo-American Head Representing State at India Meet
Ani Agnihotri, president of the Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (GIACC), departed Atlanta for Bangalore, India, last week to represent Georgia at a business forum organized by the Confederation of...
Atlanta Firm to Develop E-Commerce Foundation in Nigeria
Atlanta-based technology engineering firm, Tido Technology International, has signed an agreement with the government of Nigeria to develop a secure and efficient infrastructure for e-commerce in the country over the...
