Business Industry

In the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead’s elegant, empty Dining Room, staffer Michael Lueptow is in his shirt sleeves, methodically opening, sorting and numbering 30 wines from a dozen Georgia winemakers into three categories – whites, reds and desserts. Upstairs, a few Georgia…

When Irwin County vintner Chris Paulk was facing a few difficulties in converting the byproducts of his muscadine grapes into a saleable commodity, he turned to the Agribusiness Innovation Center (AgIC) in nearby Tifton. “He needed a way to add…

It’s just after dawn on a Thursday morning and South Georgia farmer Brian Robinson is standing in a field of waist-high wheat pulling the grain off the top of one of the shafts. He tosses the kernels in his mouth…

Looking ahead to new homes and new development planned nearby, Ron Francis made the decision earlier this year to set up temporary quarters just steps away from the Marietta Square. He took a historic building on Atlanta Street, vacant since…

Georgia’s entertainment industry has come a long way since the big-screen Deliverance and small-screen The Dukes of Hazard, which more or less book-ended the 1970s and put Georgia on the minds of millions of fans. In fact, the state has…

Of all the college hangouts in Georgia, perhaps only the Varsity and its famous carhops Nipsey Russell and Flossy Mae could vie with the colorful denizens of Allen’s, a rundown bar in an Athens neighborhood called Normaltown. There, Lewis Grizzard…

Despite some tough times, brought on by the subprime mortgage crisis, residential real estate is strong in Columbus, on the coast and in Atlanta’s high-end market – and looking better in north Georgia. Georgia Trend invited six industry representatives to…

The path to enlightenment for Freddy Bensch and Kevin McNerney began with 10 cases of liquid gold. The two were students at the University of Colorado at the time, studying environmental conservation and accounting, and working part time at a…

Will Harris is a proud fifth-generation cattleman standing astride three centuries. His great-grandfather bought White Oak Pastures farm in Early County, near Bluffton, in 1866, after what he called the “Northern invasion.” Some of Harris’ cows are descendants of his…