Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc. is supporting an initiative by the White House to drive female economic empowerment by helping women export. The global collaboration will be conducted via the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) initiative, launched Feb. 8 by the Trump administration. UPS will work directly with USAID, the government development agency that works […]
Commentary: Mexico Finds New Avenue for Responsible Diplomacy With Like-Minded Countries
Editor’s note: This commentary was published first in Spanish in “Reforma” newspaper and was made available to Global Atlanta in English by the Consulate General of Mexico in Atlanta. It was written by Julián Ventura Valero, deputy secretary of foreign affairs, who can be followed on Twitter at @JulianVenturaV. Mexico is convinced of the irreplaceable value of […]
Classic Cars to Cranberry Powder: Local Organizations Post Tangible Trade Leads
Local economic development leaders often make the case that Georgia-made products are in high demand overseas. In the past few weeks, they have posted the lists to prove it. The Georgia Department of Economic Development’s office in Brazil, which always seems busy, has sourced credible buyers for a range of products, from RFID technology, aerospace […]
Nominations Open for Savannah International Business Award
The World Trade Center Savannah has opened the nomination process for its annual International Business of the Year award. The award honors companies that excel in global trade and have a bent toward promoting cooperation between the U.S. and other countries. It can go to a locally based company or a foreign company with a […]
From Forestry to Clay, Trade Policy Hits Home in Middle Georgia
Trade policy hits home, and choices made at the national level affect local industries that rely on access to markets to stay competitive. That was the lesson of the first Global Trade and Investment Symposium in Macon, Ga., in mid-January, which revealed how arbitrary tariffs threaten the health of some companies whose employees’ livelihoods depend […]
Atlanta’s Kabbage Fuels Small Business Financing for Alibaba
Atlanta-based fintech unicorn Kabbage Inc. is enabling an effort by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to offer credit to U.S. buyers on its original platform. Alibaba.com, a digital marketplace that grew by allowing customers to source online from China, began the company’s ascent into a publicly traded behemoth touching nearly all segments of online commerce. Its […]
Qatar Airways: Delta’s Bitter Enemy, Gulfstream’s Model Customer
While one Georgia aviation giant is locked in a bitter feud with Qatar Airways, another is lauding the Middle Eastern carrier as an exemplary customer. Days after Atlanta’s Delta Air Lines Inc. reignited a conflict with Qatar Airways over government subsidies, Savannah-based Gulfstream Aerospace announced it had delivered its first two G500 business jets to the […]
Canadian Consul General’s New Year’s Resolutions: Focus on Climate Change, Anti-Trafficking in Atlanta
Next year, Nadia Theodore, Canada‘s consul general based in Atlanta, is planning to put aside her professional preoccupation with trade policies and focus on allying the Southeast U.S. with her country’s commitment to climate change and anti-human trafficking policies. During an interview with Global Atlanta at the consulate general located in Midtown‘s Colony Square, Mrs. […]
Exporter GF Health Invests $10M in Gwinnett Headquarters Expansion
GF Health Products Inc., a medical equipment supplier that has stayed competitive via exports and domestic manufacturing, opened a new headquarters Monday that represents a $10 million investment and 20 new jobs in Gwinnett County. The nearly 119,000-square-foot facility sits on 7.45 acres and is to house about a third of the company’s overall 325 […]
China Expert’s Kiwanis Address Sounds Alarm for U.S. Tech Companies
China’s ambitions to enter new markets and expand its presence globally were stoked with its admission to the World Trade Organization on Dec. 11, 2001, Dr. Lora Saalman said at the weekly luncheon of the Kiwanis Club of Atlanta, coincidently on Dec. 11 at the Loudermilk Conference Center downtown. Billed as a routine address on […]
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