New Georgia Encyclopedia: Business & Industry

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Business

Aerospace and Transportation

Bell Bomber

Delta Air Lines

Eastern Air Lines

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation

Maule Air

United Parcel Service (UPS)

Banking/Financial/Legal Services

Accounting Firms

Deloitte

Equifax

Banking/Savings and Loan Associations

Citizens Trust Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

First National Bank of Atlanta/Wachovia Bank, N.A.

Georgia Federal Bank/First Union

Georgia Railroad Bank and Trust/Wachovia Bank, N.A.

SunTrust Banks (Trust Company Bank)

Synovus Financial Corporation

Communication

Ellijay Telephone Company (ETC)

Construction and Real Estate

Food and Beverage

Royal Crown Cola Company

Insurance

Atlanta Life Insurance Company

Atlantic American Corporation

Crawford & Company

Life Insurance Company of Georgia

Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company

Primerica Financial Services

Retail

Babyland General Hospital

Brumby Family

The Home Depot

Rich's Department Store

Services

Rollins, Inc.

United Parcel Service (UPS)

Utilities

Atlanta Gas Light Company

Georgia Power Company/Southern Company

Oglethorpe Power Corporation

Savannah Electric and Power Company

Business Publications

Atlanta Business Chronicle

Georgia Trend

Business Schools

Michael J. Coles College of Business

College of Management at Georgia Institute of Technology

Roberto C. Goizueta Business School

J. Mack Robinson College of Business

South University

Terry College of Business

Industry

Agribusiness

Companies

W. C. Bradley Company

King and Prince Seafood

W. B. Roddenbery Company

South Georgia Pecan Company

Products

Apples

Blueberries and Strawberries

Manufacturing

Carpets

General

Technology and Telecommunications

Textiles

Media

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

CNN

Cox Communications

Cox Enterprises

Film Industry in Georgia

Georgia Public Broadcasting

Macon Telegraph

Radio Broadcasting

Savannah Morning News

Television Broadcasting

Turner Broadcasting System

Mining/Metals

Technology and Telecommunications

AT&T (BellSouth Corporation)

EarthLink

Timber

Companies

Georgia-Pacific

Union Camp

Naval Stores Industry

Antebellum Industrialization

People

Elena Diaz-Verson Amos (1926-2000)

John Amos (1924-1990)

Alfred Austell (1814-1881)

James H. Blanchard (b. 1941)

Arthur Blank (b. 1942)

W. C. Bradley (1863-1947)

James V. Carmichael (1910-1972)

Truett Cathy (b. 1921)

Anne Cox Chambers (b. 1919)

Howard Coffin (1873-1937)

Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans (1872-1953)

J. B. Fuqua (1918-2006)

Roberto Goizueta (1931-1997)

John D. Gray (1808-1878)

Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927)

Charles Herty (1867-1938)

Jesse Hill (b. 1927)

Joel Hurt (1850-1926)

Inman Family

Jesse Jewell (1902-1975)

Mills B. Lane Jr. (1912-1989)

Bernie Marcus (b. 1929)

George Foster Peabody (1852-1938)

John Stith Pemberton (1831-1888)

John Portman (b. 1924)

J. Mack Robinson (b. 1923)

Sidney Root (1824-1897)

Herman J. Russell (b. 1930)

Robert Shaw (1916-1999)

Henry Tift (1841-1922)

D. Abbott Turner (1892-1982)

Ted Turner (b. 1938)

W. J. Usery Jr. (b. 1923)

Robert Woodruff (1889-1985)

William Bradley Turner (b. 1922)

Philanthropy and Nonprofit Organizations

Foundations: Overview

Associations

Georgia Council on Economic Education

Georgia Humanities Council

Georgia Research Alliance

Intellectual Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP)

Junior Achievement of Georgia

St. Vincent de Paul Society

Community Foundations

Coca-Cola Philanthropy

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Habitat for Humanity International

Corporate Foundations

Truett Cathy (b. 1921)

Coca-Cola Philanthropy

Georgia Power Foundation

UPS Foundation

Family and Independent Foundations

Peyton Anderson Foundation

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Bradley-Turner Foundation

Callaway Foundation

J. Bulow Campbell Foundation

Coca-Cola Philanthropy

Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans (1872-1953)

Goizueta Foundation

Healthcare Georgia Foundation

William I. H. and Lula E. Pitts Foundation

Jeannette Rankin Foundation

Tull Charitable Foundation

Turner Foundation

Watson-Brown Foundation

Robert W. Woodruff Foundation

General Topics and Issues

Business Law in Georgia

Georgia Department of Labor

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