Swedish firm Geveko Markings, which makes pavement markings used in road construction and for other applications, is putting a new factory and North American headquarters in Hall County. The 80,000-square-foot […]
Category: Business
Posted inBusiness, Diplomacy, Education
Diplomats Learn How Georgia Tech’s Coda Building Orchestrates Innovation
Atlanta’s Consular Corps got a preview tour March 20 of the $355 million Coda building, the mother-of-all mixed-used developments in Midtown’s Technology Square. The diplomats visited while the finishing touches […]
Posted inEducation, Manufacturing
Ambassador: Italy, a ‘Nation of Engineers,’ Looks for Ways to Bolster Investment into Georgia
Most ambassadorial visits to Georgia come with a sales pitch about the advantages of their country. But for Italian Ambassador Armando Varicchio, spending Monday in Atlanta was mainly about building on a […]
Posted inFintech, Payments
Irish Innovators Target Atlanta Ahead of Fintech South
In the week leading up to St. Patrick’s Day, luck was the last thing the Irish government was relying on to help its financial technology companies gain an audience in […]
Posted inBusiness, Economic Development, Trade
With New Agreement, Taipei and Atlanta Seek to Revive Decades-Old Trade Ties
When the late Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson set up a sister-city relationship with Taipei, Taiwan, in November 1979, he didn’t just envision vibrant cultural exchange. Trading students, tourists and musicians […]
Posted inAutomotive, Business, Economic Development, South Korea
Hits Keep on Coming: Korean Brake Manufacturer Chooses Georgia for $20M Plant
A day after he traveled to Jackson County for the groundbreaking of Georgia’s largest-ever foreign investment, Gov. Brian Kemp was in downtown Atlanta meeting with yet another Korean manufacturer setting […]
Posted inBusiness, Economic Development, South Korea, Trade
Secretary Ross Focuses on Tariff-Threatened Auto Sector at Korean Groundbreaking in Georgia
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross joined company officials, legislators and diplomats for a groundbreaking ceremony on the Korean investment that is set to become the […]
Posted inBusiness, Education
From Classical to Modern, Georgia State’s Hellenic Center Maintains a Global View
Aikaterini Grigoriadou’s trajectory from her hometown of Thessaloniki, Greece, to Atlanta has a mythic quality due to its global reverberations as well as her transformation from talented music student, to […]
Posted inBusiness, Law
‘Why Ireland’ Argument in Atlanta Gets Brexit Boost
Just as a panel of attorneys in Atlanta was addressing Brexit’s implications for the Irish economy Thursday, news came in that the British parliament had rejected the prospect of a second […]
Posted inBusiness, Trade
APEC Forum Interview: How Singapore Retrains Workers Displaced by Trade, Technology
Editor’s note: While covering the National Center for APEC’s executive roundtable in Atlanta March 1, we caught up with Ho Meng Kit, chief executive of the Singapore Business Federation, which […]