Category: Business

European business leaders have some stiff advice for Jacques Santer, the new president of the European Union, according to a survey commissioned by Atlanta-based United Parcel Service, the worldwide delivery...

Blueprints for office space to be occupied by Atlanta’s Regional Export Assistance Center (REAC) already have been drawn up, but a comprehensive plan for the services that the center will...

Argentina, Belgium and Korea have replaced France, the Netherlands and Taiwan among Georgia’s top 10 export markets, according to Georgia State University’s Institute of International Business. Exports to Argentina soared...

India’s new year’s eve agreement to open its market to American exports of textiles and clothing should benefit Georgia’s textile manufacturers as well as Indian consumers, said Ram G. Sidhaye,...

The U.S. textile industry reports that exports for the Southeast’s largest basic industry increased 67% to a record $6.25 billion in 1994.  Textile imports rose 8% to $9.5 billion, also...

Belgians are smoking less, but Belgian companies bought more Georgia grown tobacco last year anyway to meet strong demand from Eastern European and Asian smokers, said Piet Bauwens, the Atlanta-based...

Registration for the 1996 Visa Lottery, which specifically seeks to diversify the nationalities of U.S. immigrants, begins in February, Atlanta immigration attorneys Beryl B. Farris and Peter R. Hill have...

Augusta and Canton, Ga. companies are the first to receive loan guarantees in pre-export financing from the Georgia Export Finance Fund (GEFF) under a new program of the Georgia Housing...

Mayor Bill Campbell will lead a delegation of local business executives to Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa either in late March or early April, Glenda Minkin, the city’s director...

Richard Burt, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and assistant secretary of state in the Reagan Administration, has been named chairman of the board of directors of Video Lottery Technologies, Inc. ...