Articles from the Atlanta Business Chronicle
Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. has become the first and only public company in Georgia with four women on its board.
The company added two women directors this year: Veronique Morali, chairman of Fimalac Développement, parent company of the international financial services organization Fitch Group, joined the board in February; and Phoebe Wood, a principal at CompaniesWood, a
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 30, 2010
In what could be the shape of things to come, two Atlanta nonprofits have joined forces to have more impact on the community.
As of May 1, the Samaritan House and the Atlanta Enterprise Center are becoming one entity called the Atlanta Center for Self-Sufficiency.
“Nonprofits are having the same problems as for-
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 23, 2010
Tradition, continuity and smooth transitions are qualities that best describe one of Atlanta’s Fortune 500 — Genuine Parts Co. The second page of its annual report has a chart that tracks the company’s sales since its founding in 1928.
Last year, the company’s sales declined 9 percent over 2008, only the second year in the company’s history where sales were less than the year before.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 23, 2010
After nearly two years of study, top local business and civic leaders are convinced that Georgia needs a cohesive organization to advocate for early childhood education.
The Early Education Commission, co-chaired by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart and Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum, recently delivered its final report with one overarching
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 16, 2010
Few mothers are as proud of their daughters as Liane Levetan is of her daughter Claresa “Resa” Levetan.
“It’s a story of a local girl does well,” former DeKalb County CEO Levetan said. “This will change the world.”
Since graduating from Emory University School of Medicine in 1983, Resa has become a leading endocrinologist specializing in the field of diabetes.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 16, 2010
He’s everywhere. Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young is as busy as he’s been in years.
Just consider a sampling of what he’s been doing this month:
On Wednesday, April 7, he served on a panel discussion at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta with John Hope Bryant, an author who is founder of Operation Hope.
By Maria Saporta and Dave Williams
Friday, April 16, 2010
Georgia Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond, a Democrat, is said to be strongly considering a run for the U.S. Senate, according to people who are close to him.
That means that Thurmond, who has been elected statewide three times, would be running against incumbent Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., in the November election. So far, no other serious politicians
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 9, 2010
Given the world’s focus on this year’s Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, 25 economic development prospects picked a good year to accept the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s invite to go on its annual Red Carpet Tour.
The Red Carpet Tour, a 51-year-old tradition, invites prospects to visit Georgia by offering them the carrot of being able to spend two days (Thursday and Saturday) watching the Masters tournament in Augusta.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 9, 2010
Two key Atlanta executives will be inducted into Georgia State University’s 26th Business Hall of Fame on May 13 at the InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta hotel.
GSU’s Robinson College of Business is awarding the Hall of Fame honor to Dennis Lockhart, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; and Rick Smith, chairman and CEO of Equifax Inc.
They will join a group of 70 influential business leaders, primarily from metro Atlanta, in the Hall of Fame.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 9, 2010
The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, the largest foundation in Georgia, has a new trustee — E. Jenner Wood III — a longtime executive of SunTrust Banks Inc.
Wood currently is chairman, president and CEO of SunTrust’s Central Group with responsibility for Georgia
By Maria Saporta
Friday, April 2, 2010
The economy has taken its toll on the youngest among us. A new survey conducted by Quality Care for Children, an Atlanta-based organization dedicated to nurturing and educating infants and young children, has documented a sharp decline in the number of child-care centers, a net loss of about 600, in the state during 2009.
But the results are even more dire
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 26, 2010
The Woodruff Arts Center is experiencing another tough year raising money to make its campaign goal of $8.6 million.
Last year, the goal was $9 million, and the Woodruff Arts Center campaign fell $400,000 short.
As far as the Woodruff’s Beauchamp Carr knows, that
By Maria Saporta and Urvaksh Karkaria
Friday, March 26, 2010
If you go by the number of businesses relocating to the area, things are looking up for metro Atlanta.
For 2010, the Metro Atlanta Chamber set a goal of recruiting 50 new companies that would employ at least 5,000 well-paid employees.
If the current pace of activity continues, the chamber is on track to reach that goal.
Winner of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Lifetime Achievement Award
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 26, 2010
Although he did not know it at the time, John Sibley became an environmentalist when he was a young boy. His family then owned a working farm on a dirt road in Cobb County where they would go on weekends.
“I wanted Saturday to come so I could be out in the
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 19, 2010
Atlanta’s United Way has a new million-dollar donor — Thomas K. Glenn II and the Hilda and Wilbur Glenn Family Foundation.
Glenn’s $1 million gift will be spread over two years and will go toward supporting the Regional Commission on Homelessness’ programs to place people in homes. The programs are Street to Home; Shelter to Home; and Hospital to Home.
“Roughly 10 years ago — a new trend started
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 19, 2010
Atlanta-based SecurAmerica LLC has acquired a Boston-based security firm in its quest to become one of the major national players in the fast-growing industry.
The acquisition comes only three months after it was announced that Tom Bell, former CEO of Cousins Properties Inc., joined the company as executive chairman.
The acquisition of Celadon Security Services Inc. and
By Maria Saporta and Dave Williams
Friday, March 19, 2010
Republican gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel is making inroads in Atlanta’s business community.
Longtime Atlanta business leader Dick Anderson has agreed to join the former Georgia secretary of state’s campaign as vice chairman, beginning April 1. Anderson was previously an executive with BellSouth Corp. and 2007 chairman of the Metro Atlanta Chamber.
More recently, Anderson has been serving as executive
By Dave Williams and Maria Saporta
Friday, March 19, 2010
Metro Atlanta’s hopes for a way to fund gridlock-easing transportation improvements may be about to die in the General Assembly for a third straight year.
With the 2010 legislative session approaching a make-or-break deadline, a transportation funding bill proposed by Gov. Sonny Perdue could fall victim to the same political tensions that blew up the last two years
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 12, 2010
When Gov. Sonny Perdue released his budget proposal earlier this year, it included $10 million in bond money to help build a College Football Hall of Fame but no money for the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
That omission has raised some eyebrows among longtime Atlanta business and civil rights leaders.
By Maria Saporta
Friday, March 12, 2010
Dr. Arthur Kellermann, one of Atlanta’s top public health professionals, has accepted a key policy position with the RAND Corp. in Arlington, Va. But Kellermann is not leaving Atlanta without some thoughts of the health and fiscal issues facing Georgia and Grady Hospital.
Kellermann, founding chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University, had most recently been working on the community-wide efforts to turn around the financially struggling Grady Hospital.
