As if there needed to be an exclamation point to a high-level payments forum between Atlanta and the United Kingdom this week, the event will be headlined by former British Prime Minister David Cameron. Mr. Cameron will speak at a dinner Wednesday at the Georgia Aquarium, providing further proof that the Payments 20 (P20) conference Read more
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Foreign Presence Grows as Southern Automotive Conference Makes Georgia Debut
Georgia’s argument as a hub for foreign automotive investment is getting a big boost this week as the South’s biggest industry conference makes its debut in Atlanta. This year’s Southern Automotive Conference gets under way Wednesday at the Cobb Galleria and lasts through Friday, when Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal will address some of the expected Read more
Northern Ireland Delegation in Atlanta to Honor Good Friday Agreement and to Create New Ties
Twenty years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 between the British and Irish governments and among eight Northern Ireland political parties, the violence and killings, which marked the period known as the “Troubles,” apparently is over. While undercurrents of decades old enmity between Protestants and Catholics may still exist, a delegation Read more
Coca-Cola Coaxes U.K.’s Costa Coffee Into $5B Deal
Walk the streets of London, or any major British city, and you’ll inevitably run into Costa Coffee, the retail chain trailing only American giant Starbucks in number of outlets globally. More than half of Costa’s 4,000 stores — plus another 7,000 Costa Express machines — are concentrated in the U.K., but the brand has also brewed up an Read more
Georgia’s Ag Department Looks Overseas for New Markets to Compensate for Tariff Losses
Newly arrived in July at the Georgia Department of Agriculture in charge of business development overseas for Georgia produce, Paul Thompson was off immediately to Indonesia. After seven and a half years at the Atlanta State Farmers Market, Mr. Thompson’s calendar now is full of possible trips to all corners of the world, most often Read more
MARTA Joined by Soccer in the Streets in Furthering Atlanta’s ‘League of Stations’
What began as an inspired vision of a network of soccer fields around Atlanta’s major transit stations in 2016 has taken another forward pass with the announcement that two new community pitches for Station Soccer – West End are to be opened on Sept. 8 at 3 p.m. The Aug. 15 announcement of the city’s Read more
Jaguar Land Rover Sales and Rehab Center to Open in Savannah
The United Kingdom-based Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC, a subsidiary of the Indian company Tata Motors, is to open its first U.S. “Works Centre” in Savannah in the summer of 2019. Gov. Nathan Deal announced the new operation hub of Jaguar Land Rover Classics on Aug. 15, saying that the facility is to create 75 Read more
Credit Card Declined: U.K.’s PPRO Just Got $50M to Help Payment Processors Reach the Rest of the E-Commerce World
British payments platform PPRO Group has just received a major boost in its efforts to help larger companies in Atlanta engage with emerging e-commerce markets around the world. PPRO on July 16 announced that it had raised $50 million in a new investment round led by online payments giant PayPal, with the goal of bringing its “alternative payments” solutions Read more
Hat Maker of Beijing Brings Summer Workshops to Atlanta, Her Hometown
The decision started with a hobby: When Elisabeth Koch’s Dutch father was given a choice to set up his company’s North American office in Atlanta or Chicago, he relied on more than market research. “In Atlanta, he found the Chattahoochee River, and he thought, ‘I could do some good fly fishing there,’” Ms. Koch said. Read more
British Consul General: U.K. Has Deeper Appetite for Engagement With the South
Editor’s note: The below story is based on an arrival interview with new U.K. Consul General Andrew Staunton, who will also be the featured guest at Global Atlanta’s upcoming Consular Conversations luncheon and public interview Aug. 22. Sign up here to eat something and learn something while meeting the South’s top British diplomat. Before taking Read more
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