On a warm, sunny day, people pour off a bus in downtown Woodstock. Conversations continue as they walk up the sidewalk to the Chambers at City Center, a beautifully renovated 1913 church sanctuary that’s now used as meeting and event…
Even if you don’t feel like starting or growing a business now, you probably will if you spend any time in Columbus. Thanks to several far-reaching, hot-ticket programs based at its university, the city is establishing itself as the Southeast’s…
Mining is the only work that Tommie Wilson, 79, and Hoyt Sanders, 76, have known. Wilson began loading kaolin in 1956 and Sanders began working in the mines in east Georgia in 1957. They started out at $1.28 and $1.34…
After taking a couple of years off, Georgia Trend once again asked readers to nominate their companies for our Best Places To Work roster and tell us what makes their employers the best. Nominations came from across the state and…
Agritourism. While the industry may be as old as Georgia’s fertile soil, the term is just sprouting, relatively speaking. Janice Hale, operator of Hillcrest Orchards in Ellijay, added tourism to her business portfolio in 1993, during a rough patch for…
Consider for a moment what it might be like to adopt 600 young people over an eight-year span. You have to have enough room to feed and house them. You have to be sure they have books and activities. You…
Transportation was the 500-pound gorilla in this year’s legislative session – a friendly gorilla for the most part, who claimed a ton of attention but got lots of money for roads and bridges and even a little for transit. There…
Georgia’s food processing industry is simmering with opportunity. Spurred by proximity to abundant locally grown products, transportation systems, affordable sites, a talented workforce and a smorgasbord of economic concessions, Georgia is a ripe market for food and beverage companies. So…
It’s been almost three centuries since founding father Benjamin Franklin opined that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Although Franklin’s oft-repeated quote was actually in support of fire insurance – recognizing the devastation a house fire…
Since 2007, Dennis Lockhart has headed the Sixth District Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta. It is one of 12 regional banks that functions as an operational arm of the Federal Reserve Bank, the country’s central bank charged with setting monetary…
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