Business Industry

Leading The Charge

  Georgia Power Company, which serves more than 2.3 million customers throughout the state, got a new president and CEO in January. Paul Bowers, a native of Pensacola, took over for Mike Garrett, who retired. Bowers started with the Southern…

2011 Silver Spoon Awards

  Time again to look back on Georgia’s Year in Restaurants. (Cue appropriate musical accompaniment … say, a nice dirge or “Song of The Volga Boatman.”) Sure, the economy has made it another tough one, with more losses of former…

On The "Nappalachia" Trail

Here, in the pleasant 60-degree coolness of a “wine cave” set into the hillside, he shows off the high-tech instruments of his trade: enormous stainless steel tanks holding still-fragrant crushed grapes from the 13 acres of vines on the 197-acre…

Real Science, Real Impact

  “At a time when statewide employment shrunk – and this has been the worst economic stretch I’ve seen in my lifetime – biotech and life sciences actually grew through the recession,” says Jeff Humphreys, director of the Selig Center,…

Georgia's Banking Landscape

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” It originates with 16th century Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus. But it’s also a lyric from the Tom Waits song, Singapore, and a line from the Steven Spielberg film, Minority…

Georgia's Top 100 Public Companies

By the numbers, Georgia’s largest public companies showed a definite im-provement in the most recent fiscal year, but there was little cheering among corporate chief executives and stockholders.   Georgia Trend’s listing of the state’s top 100 public companies, by…