In 2013, Reid Edgar had become a fan of powdered peanut butter, but there were a few things about the emerging category that didn’t impress the Atlanta native. For one, the flavors lacked ingenuity. But the bigger problem was why: Little competition meant that the top producer had no reason to innovate. Powdered peanut butter is basically […]
Middle East - North Africa
First Exported Kia Telluride SUVs Head From Georgia to the Middle East
The first Georgia-made Kia Tellurides to be exported started their journey overseas Tuesday as the eight-seater SUVs were loaded at the Port of Brunswick en route to buyers in the Middle East. The first shipment, handled by auto shipper Hyundai Glovis (part of Kia’s sister company Hyundai’s group of companies) included about 250 Tellurides headed […]
Peachtree City Founder Brings Community Thinking to Kurdish Refugee Camps
To compare the pristine beauty of Peachtree City with a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan requires a leap of imagination few can make, but one that is prompting Joel Cowan, the Fayette County city’s founder, and a few colleagues to take seriously. On the one hand you have tree lined roadways, more than 100 miles of […]
Emory Professor: No Simple Answers in Middle East Issues, Foreign Policy
If there’s one thing Emory University Professor Kenneth Stein is emphatic about, it’s that foreign policy is hitting closer to home than ever before. The problem is that the U.S. is less equipped to deal with the realities of a changing world, and simple answers are hard to come by, especially in the region he studies — […]
No Public Progress on Delta’s Request to Look Into Qatar Airways Deal
At least on the surface, Delta Air Lines didn’t get its wish this week for a yet another critical review of an aviation pact between the U.S. and Qatar, which the Atlanta-based carrier said is still being abused by Qatar’s state-run airline. Civil aviation delegations from both sides met on the sidelines of a high-level strategic […]
Qatar Airways: Delta’s Bitter Enemy, Gulfstream’s Model Customer
While one Georgia aviation giant is locked in a bitter feud with Qatar Airways, another is lauding the Middle Eastern carrier as an exemplary customer. Days after Atlanta’s Delta Air Lines Inc. reignited a conflict with Qatar Airways over government subsidies, Savannah-based Gulfstream Aerospace announced it had delivered its first two G500 business jets to the […]
Delta Fires New Salvo in Qatar Airways Feud, This Time Over Italy Routes
Delta Air Lines Inc. has fired a new salvo in an ongoing battle with Middle Eastern air carrier Qatar Airways, reigniting a conflict a year after the two sides reached a fragile ceasefire. At issue this time is Qatar’s 49 percent stake in Italy’s Meridiana, which has been rebranded to Air Italy and is now […]
Our 18 Most-Read Stories of 2018
As editors, gauging audience interest is never a science, and we face often the unenviable task of writing about the things we feel our readers should know, not what they necessarily want. I liken it often to offering health vegetables to someone who’d rather eat candy. Global Atlanta has long been concerned with the mechanics […]
Books 2018: Tapping Into Latent Leadership
Book: The Transformative Leader: Boldly Declare, Courageously Pursue, and Abundantly Achieve the Extraordinary Author: Amir Ghannad Review by: Soumaya Khalifa, president, Khalifa Consulting and founder of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta This year, I picked up The Transformative Leader and found it to be a very engaging and practical book on leadership that I’m already […]
Hapag-Lloyd Deal Reveals Georgia’s New Openness to Foreign Mergers
German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd’s plan to hire more than 360 new people at a Gwinnett customer service center may seem like a standard foreign investment, but a deeper look shows it results in part from a shift in approach toward mergers and acquisitions in Georgia. The deal is the latest and perhaps one of the most […]
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