Korean entrepreneur YK Lee seeks to extend the business and educational services of her Cambridge, Mass.-based company, YK Consulting Group, to the Southeast by forming business ties between Asian and...
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Major India Hi-Tech Firm Considers Atlanta for N. American Headquarters
The flight of IBM Corp. and other technology companies from India in the mid-1970s provided Wipro Ltd. a vacuum to become one of the country’s leading information technology (IT)...
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Mexico Said to Favor Free Movement of Labor Within Nafta
For Nafta to catch up with the European Union (EU) in terms of becoming an international economic community, the U.S. should support a number of measures, including presidential Trade...
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Medical Product Firms Urged to Exploit Uncertainty in Japan
Georgia bio-tech, pharmaceutical or medical supply companies with an eye to setting up shop in Japan stand to benefit from uncertainties caused by the recent merger of Japan’s Ministry of...
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Korea Firms Poised To Invest in U.S.
The Southeast should benefit from an impending wave of Korean investment of small- to medium-sized companies into the U.S. in the next six to 18 months, June Towery, an attorney...
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Annual U.S.-British Oglethorpe Award Goes To Total Systems CEO
Richard Ussery, chairman and CEO of Columbus-based Total Systems Services (TSYS), one of the world’s largest credit card processors, accepted the Oglethorpe Sword Award on May 23 at 103 West...
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Incubator Designated Foreign Trade Zone
The South DeKalb Business Incubator (SDBI) has received the world’s first ever designation as an incubator that was named a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) by the National Foreign Trade...
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Georgia Executive Heads National U.S.-Korea Chamber
Chang B. Yim, president of ChangTex trading company in Dalton, was elected president of the Korean-American Chamber of Commerce & Industry Federation of the USA Inc. (KOCHAM) at the...
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Teodoro Maus and David Yu Named to Georgia Arts Council
Teodoro Maus, president of the Mexican American Business Chamber Atlanta, and David Yu, chairman of the Asian– and Latino-market-focused Summit National Bank in Atlanta, were two of the 17...
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Increased Trade Foreseen Between Atlanta and Africa
Atlanta-based logistics companies stand to benefit from increased trade ties between in the U.S. and Africa, particularly South Africa, under the terms of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA),...