When Gov. Brian Kemp visited Porsche’s new electric vehicle plant in Stuttgart, the sports car maker made a thoughtful choice for his tour guide. The governor walked the production line of the brand new Taycan Turbo all-electric sports car with Detlev von Platen, an executive who led Porsche Cars North America’s Atlanta operation for seven […]
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Gov. Kemp in Germany to Meet With Investors, Open State’s New European Office
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is traveling in Germany on what is his second trip to one of the state’s top investor nations since taking office last January. Accompanied by Georgia Department of Economic Development Commissioner Pat Wilson and First Lady Marty Kemp, Mr. Kemp attended a ribbon-cutting for the opening of the department’s expanded European trade and […]
Machine Builder Becomes Latest German Firm Recruited to Gwinnett
It’s not a huge number, but MueKo Machinery Inc.’s spending on a new Gwinnett County headquarters represents another flag planted for a section of metro Atlanta that has become a magnet for international companies. The German-owned machine building firm is setting up shop on Tench Road in Suwanee, spending a quarter-million dollars on the expansion with plans to […]
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 […]
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 Dangers of Not Talking to Strangers
Book: Talking to Strangers:What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know Author: Malcolm Gladwell Review by: Soumaya Khalifa, president, Khalifa Consulting and founder of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta Like many, I grew up with my parents telling me not to talk to strangers. Now in my consulting, I work with leaders and […]
Books 2019: Common Humanity Amid the Tragedy of World War II
Book: All the Light We Cannot See Author: Anthony Doerr Review by: William De Baets, Consul General of Belgium to the Southeast U.S. My wife gave me Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See for my birthday last June. She knows I like stories about life during World War II, and I must say that her […]
Atlanta’s Consuls: U.K. Conservatives’ New Brexit Mandate Will Transform EU Relations
The reactions at a luncheon of the Atlanta Council on International Relations (ACIR) from the Atlanta-based consuls general of Britain, Germany and Ireland to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s pro-Brexit general-election victory captured a mixture of relief and recognition that a new age in the diplomatic and economic relations of their countries was upon them. Alasdair […]
Atlanta’s German Christmas Market Grows With New Centennial Park Location
The Atlanta Christkindl Market is back and bigger than ever, and what it may have sacrificed in quaintness it makes up for in an enlarged footprint worthy of the holiday street markets that dot town squares back in Germany. In its fourth year, the German Christmas market has moved to Centennial Olympic Park downtown, more […]
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