Atlanta’s diplomatic wheel kept spinning in 2019, with new arrivals in two key postings, a handover of the deanship and the addition of yet another country to the now 70-plus that have representation here. Shane Stephens, consul general of Ireland, earlier this year became the longest-serving member of the corps, succeeding Peru’s Miguel Aleman in the deanship, which […]
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Anheuser-Busch Invests $85M in Cartersville Expansion
Anheuser-Busch, which continued to grow its Cartersville brewery after the iconic beer company’s merger with Belgium’s InBev in 2008, is pouring more into the plant with an $85 million expansion. The investment in Bartow County will create 12 jobs, diversifying a facility that already makes 20 brands in the global beer conglomerate’s portfolio — including the recently certified […]
Holocaust Remembrance Event to Focus on Denmark’s Ordinary Heroes
Jewish organization Am Yisrael Chai‘s annual Holocaust remembrance event later this month in Atlanta will focus on the remarkable actions of Danes to resist the Nazi regime’s attempts to send Denmark’s Jews to concentration camps. The “Rescue and Refuge” event Jan. 26 will feature as its keynote speaker Rabbi Bent Melchior, whose father, Chief Rabbi […]
Swedish-owned Skanska Partners With H.J. Russell on Grady Surgical Center
A joint venture between Swedish-owned construction giant Skanska and Atlanta’s H.J. Russell & Co. will partner to build a $151 million surgical center at Grady Memorial Hospital. The Center for Advanced Surgical Services will be a freestanding 10-story building adjacent to the main campus of the downtown Atlanta hospital that is the fifth busiest in the country […]
NCR Buys British Software Firm for $131 million
Atlanta-based NCR Corp. has purchased Zynstra, a United Kingdom-based provider of software to the retail, hospitality and banking industries, for £100 million, or about $131 million. The companies began working together years ago, but the relationship intensified last January when NCR engaged Zynstra to launch a virtualization platform focused on retail customers. Such platforms bridge stores’ existing […]
Lidl Still Bringing $100M Distribution Center to Georgia
Lidl, the German-owned grocery chain that delayed its own ambitious expansion plans, will now come through on a $100 million investment in Georgia — just in a different city and later than originally planned. The new 925,000-square-foot warehouse in Covington, the company’s fourth in the U.S., will create 270 full-time jobs, Gov. Brian Kemp‘s office […]
Our 19 Most-Read Stories of 2019
Looking at our list of top stories for 2019, it’s hard not to be a little disappointed as an editor. After all, we pride ourselves in being a publication that primarily uses business as the lens through which we illuminate the ways Atlanta is connected to the world — or more specifically, to the global […]
Books 2019: The Literary Giant Who Valued the Little Man
Book: Samuel Johnson: A Biography Author: Professor John Wain Review by: Phil Bolton, founder, Global Atlanta During a recent Christmas tour of homes in Atlanta, I visited several newly, beautifully restored houses and was most struck by the absence of books on the shelves. It was said that in the South every house had both […]
Books 2019: What Ancient DNA Tells Us About Humanity Before History
Book: Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past Author: David Reich Reviewed by: Glenn P. Hendrix, Chair, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP I’m fascinated by prehistory. Anatomically modern humans have been around for at least 200,000 years, but the earliest recorded history dates back only a […]
Books 2019: Rethinking the European Origins of American Tolerance
Book: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America Author: Russell Shorto Review by: Trevor Williams, Managing Editor, Global Atlanta Anyone who has been through fifth-grade civics would know that European thinkers incubated the American sense of reason and the religious tolerance […]
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