As previously reported by Global Atlanta, Korean HVAC manufacturer Dongwon Tech Corp. is set to put a 40-job factory in Gainesville, investing $700,000. The 20,000-square-foot plant is one of two Korean expansions the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce announced during its last fiscal year, which ended in October. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced the news […]
Economic Development
Georgia Celebrates Top Business Ranking at Japan-owned Bridgestone Golf
While they explicitly linked it to the opening of the Masters golf tournament Thursday, officials announcing Georgia‘s eighth straight No. 1 business ranking also offered a fitting, if inadvertent, nod to the international connections driving many recent investment decisions. Gov. Brian Kemp and others gathered at a Bridgestone golf ball factory in Covington to celebrate […]
Hall County Adds Two Korean Expansions During Fiscal Year
Two Korean companies quietly expanded in Hall County over the past fiscal year, adding a combined $7 million in capital investment and 70 jobs in the North Georgia community. Alfrex USA, which makes fireproof exterior building panels, spent $6.2 million and planned to hire 30 at a new North American headquarters and factory in Buford […]
Patience, Consistency Key Ingredients for Communities Prepping for Japanese Investment
Communities around Georgia looking to attract Japanese investment should learn one thing — patience — while forgetting much of what they’ve done while wooing other international prospects. That was the consensus among economic development experts on a Japan-America Society of Georgia panel discussion on attracting Japanese firms to the state. “Communities need to realize that […]
Georgia’s Outgoing Japan Rep: How to Keep the State’s Investment Edge
Editor’s note: Representing Georgia for nearly 30 years, Yumiko Nakazono has been compiling insights for decades now on what makes the state attractive for Japanese investors. Her short answer? Southern Hospitality is real, as are the region’s competitive advantages in labor and land prices, as well as governments that are genuinely eager to help companies […]
Juice for Jobs: Atlanta Entrepreneur Expands Snack Business to Help Displaced Persons in Her Native Country of Georgia
Following the success of her organic rosehip juice business, NADI, Atlanta entrepreneur Nina Tickaradze is launching a second product that will provide further meaningful work for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in her home country of Georgia. NADI, which means “collective work effort” in Georgian, employs people displaced by conflict in the Republic of Georgia’s South […]
Leader of Georgia’s Japan Office to Retire After 30 Years
It wasn’t long after studying American literature and English language in college that Yumiko Nakazono set about putting her cultural understanding into action. Herself a “southerner,” hailing from Georgia’s sister prefecture of Kagoshima on the southern tip of the island of Kyushu, Ms. Nakazono joined the state’s Tokyo office in 1989 after a stint in […]
Toyota Supplier to Expand With $5M Investment in Jackson County
A Toyota supplier of electronics for compressors will spend $5.5 million to expand in Jackson County, creating 27 new jobs at an already-large facility it set up nearly seven years ago to the tune of $350 million. Toyota Industries Compressor Parts America will add 15,000 square feet to a 600,000-square-foot plant, enhancing production of DC/AC […]
Japanese Auto Supplier to Make Sixth Expansion in Rome
A Japanese supplier of auto parts to the likes of Honda and Nissan in the Southeast U.S. is set to embark on its sixth expansion over two decades in Rome, Ga. The latest expansion from F&P Georgia isn’t the flashiest — it is to create 15 jobs on $22.8 million in investment, much of which […]
Japan-based Toppan’s Two Georgia Factories Keep Focus on Innovation While Adjusting to New Realities
While Toppan Printing Co. Ltd. is celebrating the preservation of traditional printing practices back home in Japan, the company’s two Georgia subsidiaries are using the latest technologies to drive growth at a time of uncertainty. Toppan recently reopened its Printing Museum in Tokyo, which focuses on the history of printing, from early woodblocks to the […]
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