Atlanta Business Chronicle articles from June 1997

Atlanta Business Chronicle archives from June 1997

Crime in the skies taking off. (violence encountered by Delta Airlines Inc.'s crew during flight)
June 13, 1997... When Delta Air Lines Flight 2022 departed from Tucson, Ariz., for Atlanta on April 5, the captain and flight crew were unaware of the pandemonium that was about to erupt in the passenger cabin. Trouble began on the overnight flight when...

Tourism chief quits Cobb post. (Cobb County Convention and Visitors Bureau chief Francis M. Greene resigns)
June 13, 1997... Frances M. Greene will resign as president of the embattled Cobb County Convention and Visitors Bureau (CCVB) when her two-year contract expires on June 19. The CCVB has come under intense public scrutiny over the past year from county...

WREK plays hardball with Cox. (Georgia Institute of Technology's WREK 91.1 FM competes with Cox Broadcasting Corp.)
June 13, 1997... A group of rock 'n roll T-shirt-wearing engineering students has wrecked Cox Broadcasting's plans to put out a more powerful radio signal to Georgia Tech basketball and football fans. Cox Broadcasting, which controls programming for WCNN...

Tower Place to break ground on new building. (Regent Partners opens new office building)
June 13, 1997... Regent Partners has assumed the pole position in the race to erect the next office building in the blistering Buckhead submarket. The developer will break ground June 26 on a new office building, to be called Tower Place 200. Starting the new...

Hands-on service drives sales at Brown; regional trucking firm triples sales in 6 years. (Brown Trucking Co.)(Small-Business Strategies)
June 13, 1997... Like tracing the spokes of a wheel, Brown Trucking Co. rigs have hauled freight in and out of Atlanta and throughout the Southeast for more than 20 years. In the last six years, the Lithonia-based company's 700 trailers have made a lot of...

'Health clubs for the mind' planned for Atlanta. (The Resource Forum CEO, Allan J. DeNiro, launches private clubs)
June 13, 1997... Call it a one-stop shop for all your lifestyle needs. A former Turner Broadcasting System Inc. executive, backed by a Swiss billionaire, is preparing to launch an international chain of private "lifestyle clubs" from Atlanta. Allan J....

Atlanta's big agencies have far-flung accounts. (Atlanta, GA's advertising firms)(Advertising and Marketing)
June 13, 1997... Together they oversee nearly $1 billion in advertising billings and employ about 770 people. The chief executives of the city's eight largest advertising firms (according to Atlanta Business Chronicle's 1996 Book of Lists), Larry, Tolpin, Knox...

Electronic commerce leader's stock exploding. (Harbinger Corp.'s stocks increased by 75% since Jan., 1997)
June 13, 1997... After quietly shuffling its top management, Atlanta-based Harbinger Corp. is riding a rejuvenated stock market and basking in the seemingly glowing future electronic commerce. The 14-year-old technology company's stock has jumped...

Sales tax advocates find opposition. (Cobb County Board of Education faces organized opposition due to mismanagement of revenues)
June 13, 1997... Advocates of a new school tax in Cobb County - unlike those in other metro school districts - have encountered well-organized opposition that could sink the proposed local-option sales tax for school construction that's on the ballot June 17....

Heading South only natural for nomadic Studley. (Julien J. Studley of Julien J. Studley Inc.)
June 13, 1997... Julien J. Studley has never been one to shy away from new adventures and new places. Growing up during World War II in Belgium, 13-year-old Julien - who had earned a Red Cross travel pass as a Boy Scout - hopped on his bicycle and helped...

Deal gives National Linen Service a fresh start. (National Linen Service closes business deal with G&K Services Inc.)
June 13, 1997... Like a biker on a cross-country ride, National Linen Service President Hugh E. Sawyer spent much of the last year on the road, visiting the company's string of 79 plants and 64 service centers from Portland, Maine, to San Diego. Sawyer...

In search of a vision? city's creatives speak out. (Atlanta, GA's advertising agencies)(Advertising and Marketing)
June 13, 1997... What's the state of Atlanta's creative product? Creative forces of several major Atlanta advertising firms gathered to discuss that issue, among others, during one of Atlanta Business Chronicle's three roundtables geared to the marketing...

State options run out for Jackson 'Volvo' parcel. (public property management Georgia Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism)
June 13, 1997... Two options have run out on a 1,000-acre tract of land that economic development officials at one time had hoped would lure Swedish auto maker AB Volvo. The options, taken by the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism (GDITT) on...

Finding new business is challenge. (Atlanta, GA's advertising agencies share strategies in Atlanta Business Chronicle's Small Agency Roundtable session)(Advertising and Marketing)
June 13, 1997... Atlanta's small agencies share similar challenges: finding talented employees and retaining them, maintaining profitability and generating new business. Those are the findings from Atlanta Business Chronicle's Small Agency Roundtable which...

Renford affirms need to study Grady's finances. (Grady Memorial Hospital CEO Edward Renford)
June 13, 1997... A new management study that will examine Grady Hospital's finances suits Grady CEO Edward Renford, but what Grady lacks and needs is health policy, he said. Most everyone, including Grady's critics, has praised the pending management study,...

Manheim steering auto auction into cyberspace. (Manheim Auctions)
June 13, 1997... Manheim Auctions plans to mount a live auction on the Internet later this month - the latest facet of its booming one-year-old online business. Manheim, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises Inc. led by former The Atlanta...

Radio tops revenue charts as competition sets pace. (Atlanta, GA radio stations increase revenues)
June 13, 1997... Radio stations in Atlanta are finding out that it doesn't take an economic boost like the 1996 Olympics to propel revenue. After three consecutive years of double-digit revenue growth and a record-setting year last year, most radio stations...

Novoste set to begin trials for new angioplasty device. (Novoste Corp.)
June 13, 1997... While many of Georgia's health-care stocks are in the doldrums, shares of Novoste Corp. are rising with a healthy vigor. Largely on the promise of its heart-disease device, Novoste stock (traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol NOVT)...

Local network TV: still more bang for the buck; rebounding from '96's high revenues isn't easy, but area's growth helps. (political advertising in television)
June 13, 1997... Izzy and Bob Dole are sorely missed in Atlanta. The Centennial Olympic Games mascot and the former presidential candidate, respectively, represented a strong market for local television in terms of advertising revenue in 1996. Tim McVay,...

Numbers draw advertisers to tap gay market. (advertising agencies focus on gay and lesbian consumers)(Advertising and Marketing)
June 13, 1997... Mainstream advertisers are beating a path straight to gay and lesbian consumers in Atlanta. The growing interest in the gay market is due to several market studies depicting gays and lesbians as more affluent, better educated and loyal to...

Hispanic and African-American buying power significant. (Atlanta, GA's minority market)(Advertising and Marketing)
June 13, 1997... The minority market is booming - Atlanta's African-American market is the nation's fastest-growing - and advertisers increasingly are reaching into the deep pockets of this growing group of consumers. It's a multifaceted and lucrative...

Study over, Balloun putting his imprint on NSI. (National Service Industries Inc. CEO James S. Balloun)
June 13, 1997... James S. Balloun's first year as chairman and CEO of National Service Industries Inc. (NSI) was a lot like his 31 years at consultants McKinsey & Co.: He studied. Now it is his turn to put his findings into effect at the $2 billion company....