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April 23, 2007

Georgia Tech to Help Unveil Liberia’s IT Policies

Troutman Sanders Grows International Practice in China

Coke Zero’s International Launches Boost Company’s First Quarter Earnings

Cargolux Cargo Routes Underway Between Atlanta and Luxembourg

Atlanta Company Providing Software Applications for Chinese Color Producer

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Georgia Tech to Help Unveil Liberia’s IT Policies

The Georgia Institute of Technology will be represented at the April 23-27 unveiling of Liberia’s National Information and Communication Technologies Policy.

Entitled, “E-Liberia Vision 2010,” the policy will be announced by Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Monrovia, the country’s capital, and followed by a series of workshops and educational sessions.

Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Michael Best, who works in the university’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and its College of Computing, is organizing a two-day workshop for the conference that is to examine the West African nation’s plans for information and communications technologies.

In partnership with Microsoft Corp., Georgia Tech has been intimately involved with the development of information and communications technology programs in Liberia. 

Under Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential program, which works to provide technology skills globally, Georgia Tech has helped establish a computer center at Monrovia’s Center for Empowerment of Women and Children.  The center is focused on livelihood development and training among women displaced by the civil war.  

Georgia Tech and Microsoft are also planning the development of a computer facility and training center at the JFK Hospital, Liberia’s largest health center, which will be used to train hospital staff in computer literacy, health informatics, and tele-health services.

Other entities to be represented at the five-day conference include Cisco Systems, the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Initiative for West Africa, the World Bank, the International Financial Corporation and the United States Agency for International Development.

For more information, visit http://www.mopt.gov.lr/

Contact Elizabeth Campell at Georgia Tech at elizabeth.campell@icpa.gatech.edu

 

 

Troutman Sanders Grows International Practice in China

Law Firm Troutman Sanders LLP is boosting its presence in China to over 20 professionals with the addition of an international trade practice group obtained from the New York-based law firm Kaye Scholer LLP.

The new group brings a team of 11 legal professionals to Troutman Sanders.  Nine of these professionals will join the firm's Washington office, and the other two will join the firm's Shanghai office, which opened earlier this year.

The group will represent international corporations and foreign governments involved in trade remedies cases, such as antidumping and countervailing duty laws, as well as international arbitration representations.

Coupling the Shanghai office with Troutman Sanders’ Hong Kong office, which has been operational since 1997, the firm has a staff of nearly 50 professionals in China to assist Asian-based clients with local and international legal matters.

For more information, contact Mark Braykovich, Troutman Sanders Public Relations director, at (404) 885-3276 or mark.braykovich@troutmansanders.com.

 

Coke Zero’s International Launches Boost Company’s First Quarter Earnings

Coca-Cola Co.’s launch of low-calorie soft drink, Coke Zero, in Europe and Latin America helped drive the company’s profit growth in the first quarter of this year, according to reports.

The company’s operating income jumped 32.7 percent in Europe, due in large part to the launch of Coke Zero in eight countries there since the beginning of this year.   The drink was also launched in seven Latin American countries, where operating income grew 18.9 percent this year.

The company announced first-quarter earnings of $1.26 billion, or 54 cents a share, up 13.5 percent from $1.11 billion, or 47 cents a share, for the similar period a year ago.

The company’s operating income in North America, however, dropped 10.6 percent during the same period.

 

Cargolux Cargo Routes Underway Between Atlanta and Luxembourg

Cargolux Airlines International S.A., Europe's largest cargo-only carrier began twice-weekly Atlanta and Luxembourg flights on March 29.

The new ‘Southern Connex Service’ takes commodities including general cargo, cars, spare parts and engines to and from Atlanta and Luxembourg.

Flights are routed via New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport before arriving in Atlanta on Thursdays and Sundays at 1:10 p.m.

Flights leave Atlanta for Luxembourg the same day at 3:10 p.m.  They continue through Chicago before arriving in Luxembourg at 9 p.m.

Atlanta Company Providing Software Applications for Chinese Color Producer

CDC Software of Atlanta is providing software applications to improve the operating systems of China-based Shanghai Rainbow Color Plastics Co., a manufacturer of colored resins and concentrates.

CDC’s Ross Enterprise suite of software applications is being used by Shanghai Rainbow to improve the company’s production planning, inventory management and customer service levels.

CDC Software is a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corp. and a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and consulting services.

Shanghai Rainbow Color Plastics was founded in 1995 as a joint venture of Shanghai Zijiang Group Company Ltd., Techno Polymer Co., Coloring Co. Ltd. and ITOCHU Corp.   The company designs and manufactures colored resins, compounding and color concentrate and processes 14,000 tons of material every year.  It exports more than half of its products to Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Implementation of Ross Enterprise applications at Shanghai Rainbow is a joint effort of CDC Software and Japan-based Yokogawa Information Systems Corp.

For more information, visit www.cdcsoftware.com.