Business Industry

  Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed believes the key to his city’s economic future is buried under 42 feet of water about 260 miles away from his office. “Our long-term goal should be to make the Metro Atlanta region the center…

  When Georgia Trend asked workforce development authorities to identify the professions and regions of the state where new jobs are developing and where the jobs of the future might be found, there was a near unanimous response on a…

  If necessity is the mother of invention, perhaps recession is the mother of re-invention. One thing that’s come out of the great recession and the glacially slow recovery is the need for businesses, large and small, to give their…

  For the first time, Georgia Trend highlights winners of the Georgia Economic Developers Association (GEDA) Deal of the Year awards. The awards, established in 2007, recognize achievement in locating or expanding new business, says the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority’s…

  If you are alive today, odds are that Coca-Cola has always been part of your personal backdrop. It is the best-known brand in the world, its iconography the most instantly recognized pop-cultural set dressing from America to Zimbabwe. Born…

  Atlanta’s venerable Coca-Cola Company is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. From a flavorful pick-me-up concocted by a local pharmacist, Coca-Cola has become the world’s best-known consumer product. Muhtar Kent became CEO in 2008 and added the Chairman of…

  For the sixth year, we invited Georgia Trend readers to nominate their companies for our annual Best Places To Work roster and tell us what makes their employers the best. Our readers tell us they especially like the opportunity…

  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…