Business Industry

Business Industry, Features

Making A Comeback

Ed Lightsey,

  The waves of bank closures that washed over the state during the recession – many tied to toxic real estate loans – gave rise to predictions that recovery could be long and slow. But Georgia’s banking industry has proved…
Business Industry, Features, People

Energizing The Markets

Susan Percy,

  When news broke late last year that IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. – ICE, the Atlanta-based energy trading company started by CEO Jeffrey Sprecher 13 years ago – was buying the New York Stock Exchange for some $8.2 billion, there were rumblings…
Business Industry, Features

Sun Dancing

Jerry Grillo,

  It’s the sun, the sol of our solar system, to which everything that lives and moves, including the wind, owes its existence. Without the sun, there is no us, no Earth. You can’t miss it. It’s the biggest thing…
Business Industry, Features, People

Flying High

Susan Percy,

  Based in Savannah since 1967, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation has grown significantly in the last few years, expanding its Georgia footprint even as it became an international player. The company manufactures corporate jets, including the showpiece G650, which came to…
Business Industry, Features

Real Time Matchmakers

Ed Lightsey,

  Black Sigatoka is a disease that strikes banana trees in Asia, Central America and South America, often destroying entire crops, a situation that resonates with one South Georgia manufacturer. In Atlanta, a small group of information technology experts investigates…