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…
Sometimes in life and politics, just like in the movies, the third time is the charm. It’s certainly true for Georgia’s film industry. Georgia has had a film commission since 1973, after the hit film Deliverance was released, and…
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…
Our 15th annual selection of high achievers from business, government, education, the arts and nonprofits.
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…
“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,…
In the graphic imagination of Dr. Ricardo Azziz, inky, stippled people with forlorn postures merge with fantastic landscapes, an army of ants crawls over a yellow field, tree branches sprout human hands clutching umbrellas, and a faceless man cowers…
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