Pieces of the 27-mile Berlin Wall are not the rarest of historical artifacts; it just takes a quick search on Ebay to find crumbled fragments of the physical barrier that separated free and communist sections of what’s now the German capital. But metro Atlanta is home to at least three complete concrete slabs weighing multiple tons each — […]
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British Packaging Firm With Sustainable Focus Announces New Execs
DS Smith, a London-based packaging firm that set up shop in Atlanta earlier this year, is building out its executive team to advance its sustainable business model in North America. The British company put its regional headquarters in Buckhead in June, announcing that it would hire 50 at the start of what is being planned […]
Deal Gives Atlanta’s Tosca Greater Global Reach in Reusable Plastic Container Business
Atlanta-based Tosca Ltd., which provides reusable plastic containers to ship perishables to grocery stores, will acquire an international competitor that launched a Georgia presence a few years ago. The move to buy Polymer Logistics will expand Tosca’s product offering and global reach, especially in Europe, where Polymer has a head start providing pallets and containers […]
Belgium Shows Atlanta Its French(-Speaking) Side
The Belgian region of Wallonia may be armed with plenty of modern-day incentives to lure outside investors, but it also can point to evidence from history that it’s a coveted area. Belgium brands itself as the crossroads of Latin and Nordic cultures, a truly cosmopolitan place where a company can credibly be called a pan-European […]
Dutch Firm to Buy Peachtree City’s Cooper Lighting for $1.4 billion
The former Philips Lighting business based in the Netherlands has agreed to purchase Peachtree City-based Cooper Lighting for $1.4 billion. Eindhoven-based Signify, which the company has been called since 2018, said the acquisition of Cooper from Eaton Corp. would strengthen its position in North America, particularly in the professional space, as well as in the […]
Crystal Peach Awards Celebrate French Innovations, Partnerships in Atlanta
Atlanta is becoming a bona fide proving ground for French innovations accessing the U.S. market, bolstered by an array of longstanding city partnerships. That was the message of the French-American Chamber of Commerce’s 15th annual Crystal Peach Awards celebrating investment links between the Southeast U.S. and France. Awardees represented future-facing investments— like the $3 million cybersecurity center opened […]
Dutch Chamber, Consulate Taking Nominations for Half Moon Awards
The Netherlands-American Chamber of Commerce of the Southeast is seeking nominations for awards recognizing contributions to the Dutch-American relationships. The Halve Maen (Half Moon) awards are named after the Dutch East India Company vessel that arrived in what is now New York harbor in the early 1600s. It was captained by Henry Hudson, namesake of […]
European Consulates Team Up for Atlanta Pride March
For the first time, the consulates of the European Union in Atlanta will march together at the Atlanta Pride Festival Oct. 13. The diplomatic offices of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland and the Netherlands banded together to support the 49th annual march, which they said shows the city’s long history of fighting against discrimination of […]
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 […]
French Council of Economic Advisors Taps New Southeast Member
A group of executives and entrepreneurs appointed by the French government to boost the country’s economic profile in the Southeast has named its latest member. Claire Collobert Angelle, while being a familiar name to many in the city’s international community, is the newest face among the Conseillers du Commerce extérieur de la France, a global network […]
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