Despite the sovereign debt crisis gripping the European Union, Swedish ambassador Jonas Hafstrom hailed the body as a success story. In a wide-ranging speech at the Metro Atlanta Chamber on Jan. 25, Mr. Hafstrom noted that the union has grown from eight to 27 members with more countries such as Iceland, Turkey and Serbia trying...
Food logistics company AJC Group has moved its global headquarters within metro Atlanta. AJC, which ships and sells poultry, pork, vegetables, fruits and seafood between 134 countries on six continents, relocated its headquarters from 5188 Roswell Road to 1000 Abernathy Road, still in Sandy Springs. According to the news release, AJC has grown from a poultry...
The Mexican government has honored Landis+Gyr AG, a Swiss company that has its North American headquarters in Alpharetta, with an energy efficiency award. The company’s Reynosa, Mexico, facility received the award for energy savings in the mid-size company category. Landis+Gyr produces meters and communications networks that tell energy companies how much electricity, water, gas and heat...
United Parcel Service Inc. has announced that it will purchase Italy-based Pieffe Group to support the logistics company’s healthcare business. Pieffe provides storage and distribution for pharmaceutical companies and through this deal UPS will gain two major facilities in Milan and Rome with a combined space of more than 750,000 square feet. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. This acquisition...
As the U.S. federal government wavers over supporting a technology that converts tons of garbage into energy, companies worldwide are embracing this innovation and working towards building facilities, said researcher and businessman Lou Circeo. Dr. Circeo is the chief scientist at Atlanta-based Applied Plasma Arc Technologies LLC, a private consulting firm affiliated with the Georgia Institute of...
Roswell-based electronic parts distributor World Micro Inc. announced a new board member for its Asian hub in Penang, Malaysia. Siew Hai Wong, who has three decades of experience in government and commercial activities in Malaysia, will join the board of the Malaysian operation, which was opened earlier this year. Mr. Wong is an honorary governor of the business advocacy group...
More than 200 executives gathered at the Georgia Institute of Technology on Oct. 18 to learn about innovative ideas from a variety of Georgia’s leading manufacturers including a Japanese toilet maker and a Korean automobile producer. At the Next Generation Manufacturing conference, Randy Jackson, vice president of human resources and administration for Kia Motors Manufacturing...
A delegation of Chinese government officials and business leaders representing a wide variety of industries including textiles, energy and finance are to visit Atlanta on Wednesday, Nov. 16, to build relationships with Georgia companies. The representatives are looking to develop partnerships in product development and to create local sales networks. They also would like to...
Suwanee-based communications technology company Arris Group Inc. has agreed to buy BigBands Networks Inc., a video networking service provider founded in Tel Aviv. The deal is worth a diluted equity value of about $172 million or $53 million net of estimated BigBand cash on hand, according to a news release. Through the acquisition, Arris gains...
Atlanta-based pest control company Orkin LLC has established two franchises in Nigeria. The franchises, located in the capital city of Abuja and the port city Lagos, will focus on pest control in hotels, office buildings, food processing plants, restaurants, hospitals and apartments. The new employees from Nigeria will travel to Orkin’s headquarters in Atlanta for...
