If the results of the recent Atlanta Metro Export Challenge pitch session are any indication, it pays to sell products and services overseas from the Georgia capital. A November event hosted in Atlanta’s West Midtown neighborhood brought the culmination of a year-long competition that had already seen 30 companies use grants of $5,000 to grow […]
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Exporting Georgia’s Market-based Approach for Sustainable Forest Management
Editor’s note: This commentary article was written by Puneet Dwivedi, Associate Professor in Forest Sustainability Sciences at the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources Georgia is gifted with abundant and healthy forests that cover about 24 million acres or about 65 percent of total land in the state. Forest landowners, recreational users, […]
Atlanta Helicopter Parts Exporter to Bring Voice of Small Business to U.S. Trade Appointment
Atlanta’s Rotorcorp LLC as a small company has seen steady growth in its export profile, with about 60 percent of revenues now coming from international sales. But with a new appointment to a federal trade council, President Sean Casey is hoping to make sure his success is the rule, not the exception. Mr. Casey has […]
Global Entrepreneurs Get Taste of Atlanta, the South During Endeavor Selection Panel
More than 50 entrepreneurs from around the country and the world descended on Atlanta in late September, getting a taste of the city’s entrepreneurial ecosystem while pitching themselves as the next member of the Endeavor network. Endeavor is a global organization dedicated to helping high-impact entrepreneurs scale their businesses through mentorship, and sometimes, funding. With […]
CARE Brings the Global Fight for Girls’ Empowerment Home to Atlanta
This year, the international nonprofit CARE will for the first time conduct poverty-alleviation work in Atlanta, instituting a savings program for women based on a model that took off first in Niger. Village Savings and Loan Associations brings women together in local financial cooperatives, allowing them to pool funds to preserve personal wealth and issue loans to […]
GLOBE Export Award Applications Open
The Georgia Department of Economic Development has opened applications for its yearly celebration of export achievement. GLOBE Awards — Georgians Leveraging Opportunities By Exporting — are given to companies based in the state that have expanded into a new country in a given year. Applications are being accepted through Nov. 1, with companies needing to […]
Adams and Reese Names New Partner in Global Trade, Logistics Practice
Brian F. Hansen has joined the Atlanta law office of Adams and Reese LLP as a partner in its global trade, transportation and logistics practice. Mr. Hansen has deep experience in litigation defending logistics, trucking and poultry companies in accident cases, as well as a focus on construction law, where he has successful prosecuted claims […]
How One Atlanta Company Drives the World’s Lotteries Through Manufacturing Innovation
The founding fathers may have used lottery tickets partly to fund the Revolutionary War, but even they couldn’t have foreseen how high the stakes would get in the new country they were helping mint. “We actually have a collection of antique lottery tickets from around the world signed by people like Thomas Jefferson and […]
Big Data Firm’s Equifax Deal Could Drive Financial Inclusion Globally
Atlanta-based Urjanet has landed a global partnership with credit information provider Equifax Inc., a fellow Atlanta firm with 11,000 employees, that could help improve financial inclusion around the world. Urjanet is tied into 6,500 water, waste, power, gas, cable and telecom utilities in 47 countries, gaining access to their customers’ billing and payment history. Provided on-demand […]
Greenlight to Accelerate Financial Literacy Mission With $54M Investment
Tim Sheehan only has to look at his own household to see the global applications for the financial technology company he founded. Three of the Greenlight Financial CEO’s four children have used its accounts to kickstart savings toward study-abroad trips to Germany and Spain. Starting with the eldest, each raised $900 through odd jobs and […]
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