The Duck Stops Here
Dan Amos doesn’t wear a tie to the office as a general rule, but he keeps one in the car just in case. And when he does put on the occasional ornamental fashion noose, chances are good it has a…
Georgia Trend - May 2010
Habersham County: Poised For Growth
When Habersham County’s homegrown jail cell business, SteelCell of North America, needed to expand, CEO Mike Smith looked at neighboring counties in Georgia, nearby states, even some out west. “I didn’t want to move, but we were going to have…
Georgia's Biotech Future
It was the kind of blockbuster news that gave hope to the dying, a bullish revelation that sent stock prices soaring. After decades of theorizing and testing and coming up with mostly nothing, medical scientists found a way of stimulating…
Toombs & Montgomery Counties: Winning Recipe
It is midmorning at the Chicken of the Sea Inter-national canning plant in Toombs County, and about 200 employees are busy getting tuna out of one door and through another, the midway point in the big fish’s trip from the…
The Business Of Incarceration
Georgia’s prisons have had a bit of an image problem for a long time. Robert E. Burns’ best-selling book, I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang, brought the brutalities of the state’s penal system front and center to…
Albany/Dougherty County: Optimism And History
You have to hand it to folks in Albany and Dougherty County – they’re never short on optimism, and perhaps that helps account for the new companies and jobs that keep emerging from some grim economic reality. It hasn’t always…
Mode Shift
Although Georgia leaders requested more than a billion dollars in federal American Recovery and Rein-vestment Act “TIGER” funds, when the awards announcement was made earlier this year, the state came away with nothing. The reason? Too much emphasis on road…
2010 Family Business Awards
The satisfactions of running a successful family business far outweigh the challenges, this year’s winners say. It helps to be enthusiastic – even passionate – about what you do. The 2010 Family Business Award recipients were selected by the Cox…
“We’re Doing Just Fine”
With several notable bank collapses in Georgia over the past 12 months and a rising number on the sick list, the state’s 165 credit unions have been quiet, a condition their executives seem to enjoy. In fact, credit unions across…
Organizations: Newnan Junior Service League
Poundcakes are helping put Wimberley Larkey through college. “Buying books and art supplies, which can be very expensive, would have been difficult without help,” says the Kennesaw State freshman, who earned a scholarship from the Newnan Junior Service League’s cookbook…
