Georgia Trend Daily – April 11, 2025
April 11, 2025 The Brunswick News
St. Simons Island-based PB2 Foods captures 51% market share
Taylor Cooper reports that PB2 Foods, the Georgia-based producer of an array of powdered peanut butter goods, is well on its way to cornering the market after hitting a 51% national market share in the powdered nut butter market. That number comes from Nielsen, which “records the consumption through the cash register of every store in America,” said Craig Entwistle, CEO of PB2 Foods, and accounts for around 50 million annual sales.
April 11, 2025 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Economic Development Around the State
Christy Simo reports, Georgia enjoyed a fourth consecutive year of record-breaking exports, with more than $53.1 billion in 2024. This is a year-over-year increase of 6.4% that outpaced the national average of 2.3%.
April 11, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Coca-Cola nostalgia awakened in new tech-savvy exhibit
Danielle Charbonneau reports, at a recent preview tour of “Coca-Cola Stories,” Jacquie Wansley, director of public affairs and communications at The Coca-Cola Company for the past 28 years, wore a Coca-Cola-red tweed jacket and shiny gold jewelry that matched perfectly the glowing red entryway to the new exhibit at The World of Coca-Cola, opening April 11.
April 11, 2025 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Major employer brings 200 jobs paying $18-$25 an hour at new Columbus facility
Jordyn Paul-Slater reports that Amazon celebrated the opening of its 90,000-square-foot delivery station in Columbus on Thursday. The delivery station, 5898 Osceola Court, is the first Amazon facility in Columbus.
April 11, 2025 Valdosta Daily Times
Marcus & Millichap completes $18.25 million sale of South Georgia apartment community at record per-unit price
Staff reports that Marcus & Millichap, a leading commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in investment sales, financing, research and advisory services, recently announced the sale of 805 Harmon Heights Apartments and Condos, a 100-unit multifamily community in Valdosta. The asset sold for $18.25 million.
April 11, 2025 Macon Telegraph
Thousands of child care staff in Georgia will get $500 bonuses. When?
Myracle Lewis reports that Georgia’s early child care professionals will soon receive $500 annual bonuses as part of a new initiative aimed at improving child care quality statewide. In a move to recognize the dedication of early childhood educators, the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning is launching its new Quality Rated Workforce Bonuses program.
April 11, 2025 State Affairs
Mega Millions ticket price jumps to $5 – could Georgia’s kids hit the jackpot?
Beau Evans reports that a new price hike on Mega Millions tickets may bring a windfall for local pre-K and college scholarship funding. But it’s too early to know just how much of an impact revenues will have.
April 11, 2025 The Current
Lawmakers approve funding for 2 gang prosecutors in Savannah
Jake Shore reports that Georgia legislators allocated more than a quarter million dollars in the upcoming budget for two gang prosecutors in Savannah. The specialized prosecutors would be based in “the Savannah region” and work under the Georgia Attorney General’s Gang Prosecution Unit, according to budget documents.
April 11, 2025 Georgia Recorder
Former PSC candidate launches utility consumer watchdog ahead of Georgia Power hearings
Stanley Dunlap reports that former Georgia Public Service Commission candidate Patty Durand has founded a utility watchdog that she envisions as providing a new way to hold state regulators and Georgia Power accountable. Durand’s newly formed Georgia Utility Watch’s initial goal is to restore a consumer advocacy group similar to the state’s former Consumers Utility Counsel, which represented residential and small business owners in utility rate cases until it was disbanded during the state’s budget cuts in response to the financial crisis in 2008.
April 11, 2025 WABE
Georgia bills restricting DEI policies, explicit library materials failed, but lawmaker determined to pass in 2026
Meimei Xu reports, though Georgia state lawmakers this year passed many of their big-ticket items, some highly contested bills failed to advance during the 2025 Georgia legislative session. Two of those include a bill that mirrors the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion in education and a bill that would have removed legal exceptions for librarians in a law that criminalizes the distribution of explicit materials to minors.
April 11, 2025 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia voters are worried about Donald Trump’s tariffs, poll finds
Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy and Adam Beam report, a new Morning Consult poll of Georgia voters offers a bleak view of President Donald Trump’s tariff policy — and a potential warning shot to Republicans embracing the strategy ahead of next year’s election. The top line: more than two-thirds of Georgia voters believe tariffs will jack up prices on everyday items.
