Coca-Cola Co. is launching a program to help 25,000 mango farmers in Haiti. Coke will invest $3.5 million in the Haiti Hope Project, and expects to receive contributions from the...
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UGA Cancels Symposium With Chief Justice of India
The University of Georgia School of Law has canceled an April 2 symposium that was to have featured the chief justice of India's Supreme Court, K.G. Balakrishnan. India's minister for law and...
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Goldman Sachs Exec Named President of Global Payments
Jeffrey Sloan, an executive at Goldman, Sachs & Co. has been named president of Atlanta-based electronic payment processor Global Payments Inc. He will start his new position June 1. At...
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Delta Stops Service to Trinidad, Tobago
Delta Air Lines Inc. is canceling service from Atlanta and New York to the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago. "Delta will discontinue service to both islands on May 31, a...
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Russian Ambassador: Boosting Trade Vital to ‘Resetting’ Relations
Boosting trade and investment is the best way to build goodwill and drive political cooperation between the U.S. and Russia, Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the U.S., told GlobalAtlanta. "Many...
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Coke Names Leader of North American Integration With CCE
Brian Kelley will lead the integration of Coca-Cola Co. and Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. in North America. Coca-Cola is acquiring CCE's North American bottling business in a deal that will transfer...
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Entrepreneurial Enclave: Black Business Owners Settle in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Monica Faith Stewart always identified herself as an African-American. But that was only until she moved to Africa. When the former state legislator began promoting Illinois‘...
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CEO: India a Land of Pitfalls, Potential
India is the world's "No. 1 land of opportunity" that has managed to maintain brisk economic growth despite government corruption and many other problems, Nooruddin Karsan, the head of a...
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India Grants License for Equifax Joint Venture
A joint venture by Atlanta-based Equifax Inc. and six Indian financial institutions formed to create a credit information company has been awarded a license from the Reserve Bank of India....
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Atlanta Company Gets Organic Certification From European Panel
An Atlanta company that sells an ingredient used in toothpaste has received a "highly prized" certification from a European body that judges whether products are organic. Huber Engineered Materials, a...