Questioning Apple Inc. executives over the company’s use of Irish subsidiaries to lower its tax rates on global profits shows that U.S. legislators have their eyes off the ball, an...
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Business to Help Gatwick Diamond Shine in London Airport Debates
LONDON – Jeremy Taylor has an unconventional way of opening monthly networking meetings of Gatwick Diamond Business, a 350-member group promoting the area around London‘s second largest airport. Using a beat-up trombone purchased...
Posted inArchive, Business
Italian Cost Analysis Firm Has Opened Office in Atlanta
The Italian company BravoSolution S.p.a. has announced that it has opened an office in Atlanta to provide its cost analysis and strategic sourcing capabilities to firms in the Southeast. The...
Posted inArchive, Education
Georgia College Expands Liberal Arts Ties to China and Taiwan
Georgia College and State University, which has been designated as the state’s public liberal arts university, has entered into agreements with universities in China and Taiwan to increase student recruitment...
Posted inArchive, Business
Cargill Exec: Free Trade, Africa Key to Global Food Security
Tackling the daunting challenge of food security will require engaging Africa productively and encouraging open markets around the world, a Cargill Inc. executive said in Atlanta May 20. With new advances in genetics, fertilization and harvesting...
Posted inArchive, Economic Development
UGA Economist Highlights Asian-American Advances
As the featured speaker for the Asian-American Heritage Foundation’s gala dinner May 18, the University of Georgia economist Jeffrey Humphreys began with a sigh of relief. During the course of...
Posted inArchive, Education
Obama to Morehouse Grads: You Must Compete Globally
While discrimination’s legacy hasn’t been completely erased, Morehouse College grads should eschew excuses and resolve to compete “today’s hyperconnected, hypercompetitive world,” President Obama said in his commencement address at the Atlanta-based historically black institution May...
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New Church’s Chicken Exec Has Latin American Background
Atlanta-based Church’s Chicken has named a new chief development officer in charge of domestic and international expansion. Tony Moralejo comes to the international chicken chain from more than 15 years with Burger King Corp. as...
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High Museum’s Director: ‘Have Exhibition; Will Travel’
A master of launching art exhibitions, Michael Shapiro, the High Museum of Art’s director, revealed at a Buckhead breakfast of the Netherlands American Chamber of Commerce for the Southeast May...
Posted inArchive, Economic Development, South Korea
When It Comes to Air Travel Partners, Atlanta’s Got Seoul
As if Korean Air needed more motivation to deploy massive Airbus A380s on its routes from Seoul to Atlanta this August, the Brookings Institution provided it with a recent study. ...