January 2015 Features

  • Ben Carter Enterprises Announces New Retailers, Adds to the Local Presence on Broughton Street

    January 29, 2015

    Ben Carter Enterprises has signed a number of new leases on Broughton Street. Among the latest to sign is Savannah local Shelley Lowther, owner of Dancing Dogs Yoga Studios.

  • Chris Clark Discusses The Georgia Chamber's 2015 Initiatives, 100th Anniversary

    January 27, 2015

    2015 marks the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s centennial year. Lucy Adams, Senior Editor, spoke with Georgia Chamber of Commerce President and CEO, Chris Clark, about the Chamber’s plans to expand Georgia2Georgia, remain active in the political sphere, promote leadership in Georgia’s communities and commemorate its 100 year milestone.

  • Visit Savannah Sees Record Convention Bookings

    January 23, 2015

    Visit Savannah’s year-end reports show 2014 as its strongest future convention bookings year on record. Total definite hotel room night bookings in 2014 totaled 202,780, a nearly 20 percent increase from a previously record-breaking 169,383 room nights in 2013.

  • Safety & Management Systems: How to Affect the Bottom Line Beyond Compliance

    January 20, 2015

    For many companies, the word “performance” is an indicator of profits and losses and has no relationship to occupational safety and health. For others, safety and health “performance” is an indicator of how many people did or did not get hurt the prior year without much thought to the impact on the bottom line. Both perspectives are short sighted and miss a critical business case that can be made for safety and health beyond moral or altruistic reasons. Principal Research Associate with Georgia Tech James Howry digs deeper.

  • Georgia Southern University to Offer Professional Human Resources Seminars

    January 19, 2015

    Georgia Southern University will offer Human Resources (HR) seminars at the Coastal Georgia Center, Savannah, Georgia and at HunterMaclean Brunswick, Brunswick, Georgia beginning in February and continuing throughout May, 2015.

  • Georgia Tech & Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. Partner to Train Veterans

    January 15, 2015

    In an effort to help veterans transition to the civilian workforce, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. is sponsoring active duty Army soldiers for a four-week internship program. The initiative is part of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Veterans Education Training and Transition (VET2) program, the first of its kind in the nation.

  • Georgia Chamber “Eggs & Issues” - Education, Transportation Initiatives Key to Georgia Maintaining Competitive Edge, Top Business Ranking

    January 14, 2015

    The state’s top three executives--Governor Nathan Deal, Lt. Governor Casey Cagle and House Speaker David Ralston--stayed on message and virtually read from the same page at the annual Georgia Chamber of Commerce “Eggs and Issues Breakfast” held yesterday at the Georgia World Congress Center. An attendance of nearly 2,000 executives, business owners, elected officials and Chamber of Commerce members celebrated the organization’s 100th anniversary while warmly welcoming the pro-business remarks of the state’s leadership.

  • UGA SBDC Launches Digital Marketing Boot Camp in Savannah

    January 09, 2015

    The University of Georgia Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is launching Digital Marketing Boot Camp in Savannah February 12th, followed by more Digital Boot Camps scheduled throughout the state, providing the latest marketing strategies for business. Digital Marketing Boot Camp is designed specifically for business owners and organizations who want to strategically develop marketing technologies to build loyal customers and increase profits.

  • Georgia’s Global Gateway Staged to Grow in 2015

    January 08, 2015

    Curtis Foltz, Executive Director, Georgia Ports Authority, looks forward to another year of record growth in 2015, which is slated to ring in with the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project and a continued focus on efficiency.

  • VP of Business Development at Colonial Group Inc. to Speak at Leadership NOW Lecture

    January 05, 2015

    The Savannah Jaycees announce that Ryan Chandler, Vice President of Business Development at Colonial Group Inc., will be the first speaker in the 2015 Leadership NOW Lecture Series on Tuesday, January 6 at the Savannah Jaycees headquarters