Category: Business

The state of Georgia is “keeping a close eye on negotiations to create a hemispheric Free Trade of the Americas,” Gov. Roy Barnes told the delegates on the Mercosur Ambassadors’...

Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell notified Canberra, Australia, officials last week that their city had been approved as Atlanta’s 17th Sister City. “We are excited about our new relationship and look...

Five Georgia companies participated in a trade mission to Toronto last week seeking Canadian customers, distributors and partners. “Toronto is a great market for companies new to exporting in which...

The “France/America 2000” conference, which was held in Atlanta last week and focused on French direct investment in the U.S., underscored the success that some of France’s top global companies...

An official delegation from Atlanta’s Sister City of Nuremberg, Germany, scheduled to visit here June 19-23 is to include representatives from companies and economic development agencies based in Nuremberg. The...

Heinz Seitinger, the Austrian trade commissioner in Atlanta since 1995 will be assuming the position of commercial counsellor in the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on June 1. The trade...

French minerals group IMETAL must sell a kaolin plant in Sandersville included in its $1.2 billion acquisition of English China Clays plc (ECC) last month, GlobalFax has learned. The divestiture...

Nahu Girma, president of CrossCultural Connections, and Qin Fan, an Atlanta-based executive recruiter, are teaming up once again to conduct their “Negotiating Your Way in China” workshop at the World...

Ties binding Georgia and Nigeria tightened further last week when Chinwoke Mbadinuju, the governor-elect for the state of Anambra, visited Atlanta and met with both state and city officials. Dr....

Noureddine Mejdoub, Tunisia’s ambassador to the U.S., will be the keynote speaker at the first open meeting of the North African Business Council. The meeting is to be held at...