HelloFresh SE, the publicly traded meal kit service based in Berlin, is setting up a distribution center in Newnan that will employ 750 people. The Coweta County facility will be located at 510 International Park and is to span nearly 209,000 square feet, helping the German-owned firm deliver its HelloFresh and more budget-minded EveryPlate kits […]
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German Manufacturer to Make Electric Vehicle Parts in Northwest Georgia
Northwest Georgia’s Whitfield County has landed an $85 million factory from Germany-based GEDIA to make parts for electric vehicles, its second in the U.S. and first in the Southeast. The 200-job facility, located not far from the Volkswagen plant across the state border in Chattanooga, Tenn., was announced as Georgia Department of Economic Development Commissioner Pat Wilson […]
Atlanta Realtor Outpaces Agents in 30 Countries for Engel & Völkers Award
Atlanta realtor Shirley Gary, who joined forces with the German-based brand to form Engel & Völkers Buckhead Atlanta in 2014, has been named the top agent in the system, outpacing 10,000 agents across 30 countries. Ms. Gary was also No. 2 by net commissions, according to a news release, including her work with Engel & Völkers North Fulton, which was formed in […]
For German Cultural Center, Leadership Shift Follows Transition to Online Learning
The Goethe-Zentrum in Atlanta is undergoing a leadership transition even as it continues a shift into the digital age accelerated by COVID-19. Director Jennifer Gerndt, who took up the post in 2017, has been replaced by Cassidy Chreene Whittle, who started at the center in 2018 as educational outreach assistant. Ms. Whittle has been tapped […]
German Chamber: Two-Thirds of Firms Avert COVID-19 Layoffs
About two thirds of German-American Chamber of Commerce members in the South have averted laying off or furloughing employees throughout the pandemic, but many are facing a demand crunch as the economy stalls. During the last two weeks of May, the chamber surveyed 101 members and non-members. About half of them work for foreign-owned subsidiaries, […]
New German Chamber President Gets Acquainted With the South — From Southern Europe
Matthias Hoffmann got in before the lockdown. It was early March, and while people in Atlanta had stopped shaking hands, he could still feel the Southern hospitality as he was escorted around a “fantastic green city” by his predecessor. He even ate inside at some of the city’s restaurants — a pastime that now seems […]
European Investors Struggle to Access Pandemic Relief in U.S.
As European firms operating in the United States face disruptions to their supply chains from home, they also seem to be less able to benefit from resources that could help their American competitors more quickly recover from a pandemic-induced recession. European subsidiaries are huge employers in the U.S., with a substantial multiplier effect for the […]
EU Ambassador: Coronavirus Is Proving European Solidarity, Testing Global Unity
Editor’s note: Atlanta’s European consulates and chambers have joined together to host a “Europe Day” webinar featuring local diplomats and business leaders as well as the head of the trade delegation at the EU delegation to the U.S. The free event starts at 10 on Thursday The COVID-19 pandemic, which slammed the European Union before turning its […]
The CDC Is the Latest Focus of a Wright Family Home-Produced Video
As the coronavirus was being recognized for the global scourge that already had resulted in the deaths in China and elsewhere including the United States, home-schooled, 12-year-old Samuel Wright approached Nathan Crawford, a lead public health adviser at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for an interview. Samuel had won in February a regional […]
Porsche Accelerates Online Sales Outreach During Outbreak
Porsche Cars North America is speeding up the enrollment of dealerships to its online sales platform to help them better serve customers amid the coronavirus outbreak. At 26 participating dealers where it has been rolled out since October, buyers have been able to complete about 90 percent of the purchase process online — from credit […]
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