Atlanta Business Chronicle articles from October 1989

Atlanta Business Chronicle archives from October 1989

Elite wraps up fast-food paper product contracts. (Elite Paper and Plastics Corp.) (company profile)
October 30, 1989... Elite wraps up fast-food paper product contracts A month-old Atlanta-based manufacturer of paper products for the food industry already has secured contracts from McDonald's, Burger King and Pizza Hut. Elite Paper and Plastics Corp., a...

Brown slashes workforce by a third. (Brown Transport Company Inc.) (company profile)
October 30, 1989... Brown slashes work force by a third Brown Transport Co. Inc. last week laid off 1,800 employees -- more than a third of its national work force -- and closed nearly half its terminals following the announcement of large losses for 1988 and...

Bo-Mark Transport plans to double Atlanta presence. (company profile)
October 30, 1989... Bo-Mark Transport plans to double Atlanta presence Savannah-based Bo-Mark Transport Inc. has opened a flatbed truck terminal in Atlanta that will nearly double its revenues. The $6 million company, which transports mostly building...

Commercial Bank rocks and rolls in Douglasville. (company profile)
October 30, 1989... Commercial Bank rocks and rolls in Douglasville The Commercial Bank is Douglas County's oldest financial institution and has long feasted on the lion's share of local banking business, attributes that usually augur comfortable,...

New home builder sets initial stock offering. (Spratlin Homes Inc.)
October 23, 1989... New home builder sets initial stock offering Spratlin isn't deterred by a soft market A local start-up company is betting that Atlanta's soft residential real estate market will pick up. Spratlin Homes Inc. also is hoping the...

Kone Wood wins $30 million Canadian paper mill contract. (Kone Wood International)
October 23, 1989... Kone Wood wins $30 million Canadian paper mill contract Kone Wood International, an Atlanta-based supplier of wood handling systems for the pulp and paper industry, has been awarded a $30 million contract. The contract, which the company...

When master's away, pet sitters earn pay. (Barking Up the Right Tree)
October 23, 1989... When master's away, pet sitters earn pay In-home animal care Barking Up the Right Tree even if it's For Cats Only It's a dogs life for pets of business travelers. While their owners stay at luxury hotels in exotic places such as New...

Teaching with computers firm's program for profits. (Learning Solutions Inc.)
October 23, 1989... Teaching with computers firm's program for profits To Fred Vetter, deciding whether to call himself an educator or a businessman can be a case of sweet agony. On the one hand, he seeks to use computer technology to improve the...

Personal trainers pump gold at clients' homes. (HomeBodies Inc.)
October 16, 1989... Personal trainers pump gold at clients' homes On the job, Lyn Hazlett hovers like a protective mother hen. "Slow down, slow down," she clucks at Mark Hudgens, a developer plowing rapidly through a set of chest exercises in his basement...

Independent King's Drugs sells to employees instead of big chains.
October 9, 1989... Independent King's Drugs sells to employees instead of big chains Declining health may force Henry King into retirement, but it won't cause his King's Drugs Inc. to suffer the plague of the independent drug store. One of the oldest of a...

Jackson forms investment firm with settlement. (Richard L. Jackson; Jackson Investments Inc.)
October 9, 1989... Jackson forms investment firm with settlement Atlanta businessman Richard L. Jackson formed a new company last week to invest in small businesses, Jackson Investments Inc. Jackson, the former president of Atlanta physician recruiting firm...

Young Atlantans win deal for old company. (William Becker; Hal Niebanck; Southland Capital Corp.)
October 9, 1989... Young Atlantans win deal for old company Charlie Harry remembers the first day he met William Becker and Hal Niebanck, the principals of Atlanta-based Southland Capital Corp. Harry has operated Grover Industries Inc. with brothers Jim and...

Turtle's Records to be next target for Super Club. (Turtle's Records and Tapes Inc.; Super Club North America)
October 9, 1989... Turtle's Records to be next target for Super Club Addison, Texas- based Super Club North America has agreed to purchase Atlanta-based Turtle's Records & Tapes Inc., its fourth acquisition in as many weeks. Turtle's President Alan...

Jack Morton Productions mines South's meeting gold.
October 9, 1989... Jack Morton Productions mines South's meeting gold Bob Koors doesn't need to use his creativity to explain why the company he manages -- Jack Morton Productions -- has grown so quickly the last few years. His assessment is rather simple....