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J.D. Power And Associates Study Ranks Kaiser Permanente Highest In Member Satisfaction In South Atlantic Region

IONMed Systems Chooses Hood Marketing Solutions To Create And Launch Brand

PR Firm Marketing Expectations, Inc. Adds Two New Clients

Mark Carlson Relocates To Baker Donelson In Atlanta

MAG Mutual Insurance Company Names Darrell Grimes As New President

Atlanta’s Sanders Financial Management Named To Wealth Manager’s “Top Dogs” List Of Wealth Managers For The Fourth Year

Meeting And Event Professionals Rally To Raise Food For Atlantans In Need

New Science + Technology Leaders At HOK-Atlanta

Richard Bowers & Co. Using Full Scope Of Services On New Headquarters For Georgia Automobile Dealers Association At Shadowood Office Park

Proudfoot Identifies Operational Opportunities in Mid-Tier Banks

A Winning Addition to Tarkenton Financial, LLC

Hughes Telematics Signs Agreements with IBM and Oracle

New Videolarm 5.8GHz Wireless Power Boxes Easily Add Wireless Transmission Capability To Network IP Cameras

OHC, LLC Acquires Microsoft Gold Partner ThoughtBridge

Phillips Partnership Announces Two Promotions

Local Reverend To Help Lead The American Heart Association

Emory University Hospital Chief Operating Officer To Help Lead American Heart Association

Local Attorney Wins American Heart Association President’s Award

Greenberg Traurig's Rodney Moore Prepares for National Bar Association Presidency

Ovations Food Services Selects Radiant Systems as Preferred Point of Sale and Back Office Provider

Cox Enterprises Announces $50,000 In Foundation Scholarships For Minority Journalism Students

Regent Partners With TopSchool

ORT America Leaders Elected to World ORT Governing Bodies

Arnall Golden Gregory Partner Elected to Board of French American Chamber of Commerce

United Way Announces New Promotions To Its Leadership Team

Atlanta MSA Ranked Third in Top 10 Markets for Building Home Equity

Transwestern Hires Regional Leader Of Business Development And Operations

Richard Bowers & Co. Announces Hiring of New Agent Tarkenton Thompson

Community Health Charities Hires Lisa Korade As Director Of Corporate Development For Georgia And Florida

Lenix Joins Viscom International As Marketing Director

Stephen Stark Named Director of Operations at Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta

Sanders Financial Management Announces Promotions

Elarbee Thompson Announces Ms. Glianny Fagundo As Firm Associate

Earthcraft House Named 2008 Green Builder Program Of The Year

Definition 6 Wins Horizon Interactive Marketing Award for Work with AutoTrader Publishing's AutoExtra.com

CDE Services, Inc. Invests in New Markets and Customer Service With Key Staff Additions

Whole Foods Market Joins Sweetwater Brewery's Save The Hooch Campaign Donates $23,645 To Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper

Winners for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008

Epps Aviation Receives Garmin Gold Award

Vanderlans And Sons, Inc. Renews Strategic Location In Marietta With Crespartners' Assistance

Atlanta Life Financial Group Announces Appointments And Management Changes

American-Israel Chamber Of Commerce Selects New Leadership For 2008-2009

Kim Zell Elected To Susan G. Komen For The Cure Board Of Directors And Will Serve As Treasurer

Oversight Systems Announces Solution for Preventing P-Card Abuse

Cool Dog Interactive Launches Affordable Web Site Packages For Faith-Based Organizations

Cox Enterprises Named One Of The Best PlacesTo Work In Information Technology

Fisher & Phillips Lawyers Named to "Top 100 Labor Attorneys"

Grainger Offers Hurricane Preparedness Guide

Ford & Harrison Named One Of Georgia’s Highest Rated Labor and Employment Law Firms By Chambers USA

Silverpop Promotes Voigt To Vice President Of Product Marketing

CresaPartners Assists 1st Option Mortgage with Expansion

Hartsfield-Jackson Recognizes DeCosta’s Decade of Leadership

AIG Advisor Group Names Mark J. Schlafly President and CEO of FSC Securities Corporation and Advantage Capital Corporation

Amy Quinn Joins Moore Colson

Leading Technology Analyst Micky Long Joins Arketi Group

Hunton & Williams Atlanta Hires New Partner from King & Spalding

North Point Hospitality Group Honored by Hilton Hotels Corporation

Vitrue Acquires UGENmedia In Partnership Creating End-To-End Expertise For Global Brands Engaging In Social Media

Georgia Research Alliance Names Vice President of Commercialization

Alston & Bird Partner Joins Atlanta Office Of Burr & Forman

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Admits Three New Partners in Atlanta

Hunton & Williams' Atlanta Office Recognized in 2008 Chambers USA

Two Fisher & Phillips Atlanta Attorneys Ranked Among Top in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers

George T. Olmstead, Jr. Launches Olmstead Realty

Kerry Armstrong of Duke Realty Elected Chairman

Mizuno USA Inc. Supports Growth With A Long Term Investment In A New Distribution Center

Solutions at Work® Employer Conferences Dates Announced for 2009, Fisher & Phillips LLP Also Announces New Venues

Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Names Tisha Tallman as New President and CEO

Silverpop Strengthens International Expansion Efforts

Governor Perdue Announces Alabama Medical Software Company To Relocate Headquarters To Atlanta

Manheim Continues International Expansion

Cox Radio Announces General Sales Manager Changes In Atlanta Market

John Deere Golf’s Magazine, The Approach, Is Re-Launched With Fresh New Look And Content

Transwestern's Atlanta Sustainability Expert Appointed To U.S. Green Building Council Board Of Directors

Optimus Solutions to Host EcoTech Tour 2008 On June 12 At Atlanta Botanical Gardens

CRI’s Luttrell Earns CFE Designation

Corporate Volunteer Programs and Partner Nonprofits Will be Recognized For Their Impact On Metro Atlanta Communities

Burr & Forman Named Top 10 Firm for Economic Development

NeboWeb Garners 7 Awards of Distinction at the 2008 Communicator Awards

New General Manager Joins Omni Hotel At CNN Center

Fisher & Phillips’ Roger Quillen Re-elected Chairman

HandyTrac Appoints New Sales Executive

Wachovia Securities Appoints Industry Veteran Douglas Aldridge To Lead Private Client Group in the Atlanta Market

Make Waves at the 2008 PACE Awards

Black Enterprise Names Atlanta Life Financial Group Financial Services Company Of The Year

CDE Services, Inc. Expands Executive Team with New Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Wachovia Names Alicia Laramy Senior Business Manager For Northwest Atlanta

Suzanne Baker Joins Visiting Nurse│Hospice Atlanta

Sharec Joins O'Neill Communications

Hamilton-Ryker Expands Into Georgia

CompTIA Announces Winners of Second Annual SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards

Atlanta-Based Private Wealth Advisor Recognized Among Nation's Best By Barron's

Dixon Joins Burr & Forman

LARRY FRENCH JOINS INLAND PIPE REHABLITATION AS REGIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Beck Group Moves to New Office at One Alliance Center

Richard Bowers & Co. Announces Hiring of Two New Agents

FEI Atlanta Awards Five Scholarships to Georgia University Students

CarterBaldwin Places IT Leader Mike McClaskey in Chief Information Officer Role for DISH Network Corporation

NAVIGATION CAPITAL PARTNERS ACQUIRES JAMES BROWN CONTRACTING

Silverpop Raises $15 Million for Future Acquisitions

Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center Sales Manager Wins Top Award

Commercial Interiors Consulting Group Becomes Independent Company

The Sheraton Atlanta Hotel Names Steven Jamison Executive Chef

The UPS Foundation Donates $200,000 to Myanmar Relief Effort

TRANSWESTERN'S ATLANTA OFFICE ADDS RETAIL EXPERTISE TO SERVICE LINE UP SPENCER BOMAR AND PATRICK ARNOLD JOIN GROWING NATIONAL RETAIL ADVISORY PRACTICE

Formetco™ Announces John Gibb to Advance Sales into Emerging Markets

ALLIED ADVERTISING, PUBLIC RELATIONS DEBUTS FRESH PARTNERSHIP WITH W HOTEL ATLANTA – MIDTOWN

Ms. DARYL JENKINS JOINS CK CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

Road Safe America says: Zero tolerance for airline deaths. Why not on highways as well?

Destination drives annual business; recovers from storm

CK Construction Management chosen

Arnall Golden Gregory Partner Abe Schear Inducted as a Fellow to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers

TARA FIELD'S MIXED-USE PROJECT: A WIN-WIN FOR ALL CONCERNED

22SQUARED PROMOTES TWO AND HIRES ONE TO HELP IMPLEMENT NEXT GENERATION OF MEDIA LEADERSHIP

Powell Goldstein launches sustainability practice group

Hope-Beckham adds THE TOUR Championship Presented by Coca-Cola to Client List

TIVOLI PROPERTIES, INC. NAMES GINA LEWIS LIFESTYLE EXPERT

Three Georgia Companies Named Manufacturers of the Year

ATLANTA TELECOM PROFESSIONALS ANNOUNCES CHARITY CELEBRITY GOLF TOURNAMENT FOR SOUTHERN POLYTECHNIC

ELARBEE THOMPSON ANNOUNCES TRACY GLANTON AS FIRM ASSOICATE

RockBridge Commercial Bank Hires New CFO/Director of Marketing

SoloHealth Wins Three Awards, Including 'Best in Show' for EyeSiteT Innovation at KioskCom Expo and Digital Signage Show in Las Vegas

Radiant Systems to Acquire Hospitality EPoS Systems

Serving Georgia and Alabama, Unum's Atlanta office part of nationwide launch of Simply Unum

BELL OAKS ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF COMPANY OFFICERS

Oglethorpe University Hires New Provost

Comprehensive Cancer Center Opens in Lawrenceville

Largest Exhibition Center Opens in Beijing, China; Designed by Atlanta-based TVS

COTTON STATES INSURANCE PRESENTING SPONSOR FOR DINING OUT FOR LIFE BENEFITING OPEN HAND

Experienced Veteran Strengthens Team To Generate Strategic Initiatives That Deliver Bottom Line Results for Clients

Radiant Systems Selected for BURGER KING® Restaurants in Middle East and North Africa

IP Litigator David Maxwell Joins Duane Morris as a Trial Partner in Atlanta

Porter Keadle Moore, LLP Wins Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award

Spa Sydell Finds Growth Potential with New PR Firm

Home Caregiving Company AmeriCare Named Provider of InteleHealth Family Care™ System

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SAINT JOSEPH'S CREATE UNIQUE COLLABORATION TO IMPROVE PATIENT CARE BIOTECH INNOVATION AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH MOVE NOVEL TREATMENTS TO PATIENTS FASTER

New telework program developed

CALLAWAY GARDENS® LEGACY LIVES ON AS A RESULT OF CALLAWAY PARTNERSHIP WITH COUSINS PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE IS NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH JOINT VENTURE AT CALLAWAY GARDENS

Award Allows University to Study Atlanta's Traffic

66th Central Atlanta Progress/Atlanta Downtown Improvement District Prepares for Annual Meeting at GWCC on March 26th

LEVEL5 Names Victor Furnells Director of Mid-Atlantic Region

Atlantan Martin elected chair of Giving USA Foundation

Flome, Gallimore Join REIAC Board

TED'S MONTANA GRILL BUILDS INTERNAL MARKETING DEPARTMENT

Six Thousand Prepare to Improve Air Quality and Health by Participating in the Metro Atlanta Walk There Challenge

The Beck Group Continues Downtown Work With Federal Office Building Project On Behalf of US GSA

Carter Real Estate Fund II purchases 1.54 acres in downtown Athens from SunTrust

RITA RESTAURANT CORP. PURCHASES 48 DON PABLO’S AND HOPS RESTAURANTS

Local Planner and Urban Designer elected to the Board of PEDS

Transwestern announcement

LBG NAMES NILS THOMPSON HEAD OF NEW GEORGIA OFFICE

Babush, Neiman, Kornman & Johnson, LLP

Stanton named marketing director

SOUTHEAST'S LEADING REAL ESTATE CLOSING LAW FIRM ESTABLISHES TWO NATIONAL DIVISIONS

Prime Point Media expands with promotions, new staff and inventory

SCHIEBER JOINS O'NEILL COMMUNICATIONS AS VP OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Studiocom Unveils New Corporate Identity

Cox Radio adds stations

ALSTON & BIRD RANKS AMONG FORTUNE MAGAZINE’S “100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR”

Swiss-based Manufacturer Appoints New President for U.S. Subsidiary

WEGENER Partners with Conklin-Intracom to Support Integrated IPTV Solution

Persuasion Communications Group Propels Generatorstore.com To Top Tier Placement Through Organic Search Engine Optimization

GLOBAL DIVERSITY SUMMIT IN COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE ANNOUNCES DATES FOR 2008 SUMMIT

GA TECH APPOINTS GREEN HABITATS STEWARD OF SOLAR DECATHALON HOUSE

CAROL GALBREATH OF ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION WINS PRSA|GA'S "CHAPTER CHAMPION" AWARD

Crossgate AG announces expansion of US subsidiary

Former Congressman Bob Barr joins KSU as adjunct professor

Greenberg Traurig Announces Only Georgia-Admitted Attorney Certified as LEED Accredited Professional

Moore Colson Adds Former Big Four Assurance Partner and Southeast Real Estate Practice Leader to the Firm

JAMES C. HOWARD NAMED AS CHAIRMAN OF THEATER OF THE STARS BOARD

Alpharetta offers a new solution in Printing

Newly Formed Corus Group, LLC Focuses on IT Consulting and Managed Services OHC Launches Company to Better Serve Client Needs

Local Organization Helps Obtain More Than $440,000 in Federal Homeland Security Funds for Atlanta's Jewish Community

Ventyx Promotes Vince Burkett to President and CEO

Legal Marketing Association Southeastern Chapter Elects Atlanta Marketers to 2008 Board of Directors

OmniVue Business Solutions' Meyer Joins TAG Tax & Finance Society Board

Emory's William Bornstein Named Vice Chair of Healthcare Accreditation Committee

EMORY, OHIO STATE LAUNCH PARTNERSHIP IN PREDICTIVE AND PERSONALIZED HEALTH CARE

Atlanta Regional Health Forum Announces Executive Director

ATHLETES FOR A BETTER WORLD AND THE GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION CREATE VINCENT J. DOOLEY AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Optimus Solutions and Cisco Sponsor Total Communications Makeover Contest

Mark A. Block Appointed Chair of Seyfarth Shaw's Real Estate Practice Group

Unum names Kittredge new market manager

ACKERMAN SECURITY SYSTEMS NAMED TOP SECURITY COMPANY IN THE COUNTRY

Roark Capital Group and Wood Structures Inc. Acquire Weyerhaeuser's Boston Wood Products Distribution Center

CPA Firm Adds Hollie Kannigiser to Audit Team

Heather Adams Joins SolomonEdwardsGroup As Consulting Manager

HABIF, AROGETI & WYNNE ACQUIRES ONE OF ATLANTA'S LEADING CPA FIRMS

Eyewear 2 U Rolls out its educational program

Alliance Residential Announces New Project In Atlanta

Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's President and CEO Sara González Stepping Down

Persuasion Marketing Group Announces Name Change to Persuasion Communications Group

ATLANTA NO. 1 IN WIRELESS SECURITY

GV FINANCIAL ADVISORS ANNOUNCES THAT FOUR OF ITS ADVISORS HAVE BECOME SHAREHOLDERS OF THE FIRM

Alexander Named A 'Rainmaker'

Northwestern Mutual Honors Local Representatives as Top Performer

Peleman Wins 2007 Stevie Award for "Employer of the Year"

The Nature Conservancy Announces New Leadership in Georgia

HANDYTRAC MOVES TO NEW LOCATION

MARK SPAIN TEAM of RE/MAX GREATER ATLANTA Named One of America’s Top 200 Real Estate Teams BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, REAL TRENDS AND LORE MAGAZINE

McRae Judges National Radio Awards; Wins Atlanta Design Award

RICHARD BOWERS & CO. REPRESENTS SALE OF HISTORIC DOWNTOWN PROPERTY TO REAL ESTATE EXECUTIVE FOR CHILDRENS’ CHARITY GROUP

GREENBERG TRAURIG SELECTED BY CHAMBERS AND PARTNERS AS USA LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR

Aflac Honored with Corporate Citizenship Award

Emory University Hospital Expands at Northlake

Comcast and Microsoft Launch Microsoft Communication Services From Comcast for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

PAUL DOMORSKI, CEO, OF EMS TECHNOLOGIES NAMED 2007 ATLANTA TELECOM PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR

BRANDY GILL JOINS FLETCHER MARTIN AS EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Towers Perrin Names New U.S. Marketing Director

RANSWESTERN BREAKS GROUND ON NEW PEACHTREE CORNERS OFFICE BUILDING

Steve Sadow Joins Schulten Ward & Turner as Special Counsel for White-collar and High-profile Criminal Defense Matters

Towers Perrin names new U.S. marketing director

Computers for Youth Enhances Atlanta Presence with New Executive Director and Continues Distribution of Home Learning Centers

TVS PROMOTES 35 PROFESSIONALS IN THE ATLANTA OFFICE

March of Dimes and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia Foundation announce sponsorship

Low Temp Industries Names Benjamin E. Casey as New President

126 Hunton & Williams Attorneys Make List

Overlook III announces new tenant

Georgia CPA firm hires new managers

Tatum LLC Makes Hires

Public Relations and Advertising Firm on the Move

Ford And Harrison Attorneys Honored

FleetCor Hires New Director Of Marketing

Humphries Selected To Top Lawyer List

Post Properties Hires New Executive VP

GCF Hires New Director Of Development

Fisher & Phillips Super Lawyers

Eco-Friendly Child Care At Atlantic Station

BlueWave Adds Personnel

Sto. Corp Wellness Programs Increases Health

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