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Brazilian Consulate Building Staff, Atlanta Presence
Through the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of Georgia, the consulate is fielding applications for administrative office and housekeeping positions until May 2. Applicants must be legal U.S. residents holding a permanent residency card or work permit. To download applications forms (in Portuguese) visit www.bacc-ga.com and click on “More…” under the editor’s column. Only applications returned electronically to consuladoatlanta@gmail.com will be accepted. The consulate will also be hosting a breakfast May 9 in tandem with World Vision, a Christian organization dedicated to helping children in the developing world. The event will take place from 8-10 a.m. at 3500 Lenox Rd. in Atlanta. The Brazilian consul, Adalnio Senna Ganem, will speak on how the Brazilian community can provide support for humanitarian initiatives. His speech will also shed light on the opening of the new consulate and its activities. To RSVP for that event, e-mail Iva Norris at ivanorris@cs.com. The consul is also set to make opening remarks at a multidisciplinary conference on Brazil at the University of Georgia on Friday, April 25. Parties interested in attending should contact that Brazilian chamber. For more information on the opening of the consulate, visit this GlobalAtlanta report.UGA Partners With Another Chinese University The University of Georgia announced on April 15 the signing of its second cooperative agreement with a Chinese university this month. UGA officials formally inked the partnership with Nanjing University during Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue’s first business mission to China in early April. The agreement was announced two weeks after an April 3 ceremony in Beijing during which Mr. Perdue and UGA provost Arnett Mace signed a similar partnership with Tsinghua University. Like the Tsinghua deal, the new partnership will facilitate faculty and student exchanges and collaboration on research projects. The agreement also could lay the groundwork for the training of Chinese government workers and public administration students at UGA’s Vinson Institute of Government. Nanjing University is located in the city of Nanjing, the capital of eastern China’s Jiangsu province. The modern school was founded in 1915 and was the first co-educational university there as well as the first to offer doctoral degrees, according to a UGA press release. For more on Georgia-China educational initiatives, visit this GlobalAtlanta article.
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Church’s Chicken Opened 40 Overseas Stores Last Year
The chicken chain, which goes by the name Texas Chicken in all overseas markets outside the Americas, has undertaken an aggressive international expansion strategy that has led to acquisitions in the U.K., with new stores opening there and in Russia in recent months. The first Texas Chicken franchise is set to open in India this summer, and the company plans to establish 47 more restaurants total by the end of 2008, according to a recent press release. Arcapita Inc., a Bahrain-based investment firm with an office in Atlanta, purchased Church’s from AFC Enterprises Inc., which owns competitor Popeye’s Chicken, in 2004. Since the acquisition, Church’s has focused on positioning itself better in overseas markets. The chain began expanding internationally in the late 1970s and now has 400 restaurants in 18 countries. For more information, please visit this recent GlobalAtlanta report.
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New Partnerships Expand German Chamber’s Services in Southeast The Atlanta-based German American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S. announced April 11 the long-awaited signing of partnership agreements with German business organizations in Alabama and Florida. Kristian Wolf, the chamber’s president and CEO, told GlobalAtlanta that negotiations with the Birmingham-based Alabama Germany Partnership and the German American Business Chamber of Florida took place on and off for over a decade. He said that the organizations are to have access to the global network of German chambers of commerce, including a presence in 80 countries. The chamber will be able to expand its contacts and work more actively throughout the Southeast. “(The partnerships) give the GACC South a foothold in important states we had not covered before,” Mr. Wolf said, adding that there are a significant number of German businesses in Florida and Alabama. He added that the chamber has begun planning events in Florida in conjunction with its new affiliate organization, which has offices in Miami and Naples, Fla. For more information, visit www.gaccsouth.com, e-mail Mr. Wolf or call him at (404) 586-6800.
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Internet Design Company Opens Alpharetta Office New York-based Internet design company Huge Inc. announced the opening of an office in Alpharetta April 15. The metro Atlanta office is to provide customer service to Southeast regional clients as its London and Los Angeles offices do in Europe and the West Coast, respectively. Aaron Shapiro, a partner at Huge in charge of business development, said that regional offices allow the company to serve customers and attract new Web developers. “Atlanta is a perfect fit for us to enhance our business and tap into new talent,” he said. Mr. Shapiro’s role as the founding CEO of Atlanta-based e-mail marketing software developer Silverpop Systems Inc. made him aware of the opportunities and business environment in the Georgia capital. Huge has built Web sites for a number of companies, universities and other organizations including London-based British Airways; New York’s JetBlue Airways Corp.; Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc. in Atlanta and Burbank, Calif.-based Walt Disney Co. Visit www.hugeinc.com, e-mail the Atlanta office or call (770) 608-6920.
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