Trade

A panel of judges selected three winners for the Atlanta Metro Export Challenge, awarding a total of $30,000 in grants enabling three metro-area service providers to pursue international sales strategies outlined in pitches Thursday evening.

Editor’s note: The Atlanta Metro Export Challenge will reach a major a milestone this week, marking a decade of dolling out grants to help local companies find global opportunities. What began as a JPMorgan Chase-funded initiative during the Obama administration’s push to double U.S. exports in five years has morphed into one of the Georgia’s … Read more

Three delegations heading from Georgia to Mexico this year doesn’t surprise Mexican Consul General Rafael Laveaga, despite the decades-long drought in such engagements that preceded his arrival last year. 

After the Deepwater Horizon spill, o-founder and CEO Sudhir Sharma, a Georgia Tech Ph.D. and chemical engineer, started wrestling with how to actually clean up spilled oil instead of just moving the problem from the ocean to the landfill. 

An Atlanta entrepreneur’s upcoming rollout of a softer toilet tissue aimed at promoting to promote mental health and wellness comes courtesy of the country where bamboo, its raw material, originated. 

It isn’t the easiest time to be a foreign-owned manufacturer in the U.S., but it beats the alternatives, said executives from three European firms in Georgia.

Artificial intelligence is upending the fragmented logistics industry, but the transformation is bringing more opportunities than threats, executives from Italian-origin logistics provider JAS Worldwide said during an Italy-America Chamber breakfast Thursday. 

When Belgian pharmaceuticals firm UCB announced its $2 billion investment in Gwinnett County this year, few Georgians knew the company had already been in the state for three decades. 

India’s ambassador to the United States met with executives and higher-education leaders in Atlanta last week, the latest in a series of efforts to boost business ties with the Southeast U.S.  Vinay Kwatra congratuled Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on his tenure, visited United Parcel Service Inc. CEO Carol Tome, and chatted with representatives from 20 … Read more