November 2015 Features

  • Kia Motors, Blue Bird Bus Corp. Executives Steer "Georgia Manufacturing Summit" in New Directions

    November 20, 2015

    Executives of the Blue Bird Bus Corporation and Kia Motors addressed over 300 attendees at the inaugural “Georgia Manufacturing Summit” held recently at the Cobb Galleria Centre, calling for collaborative thinking, as well as intra-state, inter-company commerce among local manufacturers.

  • Eric Tanenblatt: Demographics Don’t Make Destiny

    November 18, 2015

    It’s not an especially rough time to be a Republican in Georgia these days. And yet in time the political dynamic may not be so rosy–that is to say, red–in the Peach State if GOP’ers fail to heed and respond to emerging demographic trends.

  • 2015 Transportation Summit: Blueprint for Future Projects in Georgia

    November 17, 2015

    Over 700 Georgia engineering, transportation and public policy leaders gathered at the Georgia World Congress Center recently to lay out a blueprint for the state’s future strategic projects and their economic effect.

  • AGL Resources CEO John Somerhalder Retiring, Drew Evans to Become CEO in 2016

    November 09, 2015

    AGL Resources today announced that John W. Somerhalder II, the company's chairman and chief executive officer and a member of the AGL Resources board of directors, will retire from his executive and board roles on December 31, 2015. Upon Somerhalder's retirement, AGL Resources veteran Andrew W. (Drew) Evans, 49, will become president and chief executive officer. James A. Rubright, currently lead director of the AGL Resources board of directors, will become non-executive chairman of the board.

  • Mayor, Business Leaders Celebrate Official Groundbreaking for NCR World Headquarters in Atlanta

    November 06, 2015

    Mayor Kasim Reed joined NCR Corporation Chairman and CEO Bill Nuti today to celebrate the groundbreaking of the company’s new world headquarters campus in Midtown Atlanta. Cousins Properties CEO Larry Gellerstedt, Invest Atlanta CEO Craig J. Richard and Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson also attended the ceremony and welcomed NCR to the city.

  • Atlanta Selected to Host 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship

    November 05, 2015

    The College Football Playoff announced that Atlanta has been selected to host the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship, which is scheduled to be played on Monday, January 8, 2018, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

  • Harken Health Brings New Health Care Options to Atlanta

    November 04, 2015

    Focused on improving people’s experience in health care, Harken Health is excited to launch in Atlanta. A new kind of health care company that unites relationship-based primary care with competitively priced health insurance, Harken aims to not only improve its members’ health, but also to change what people think is possible from their insurance and health care.

  • Transportation is Region’s Top Concern, Metro Atlanta Speaks Survey Shows

    November 02, 2015

    Transportation remains the region’s top concern, according to the Atlanta Regional Commission’s third Metro Atlanta Speaks public opinion poll, which was released last week during the agency’s State of the Region breakfast.