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Some dance for fame. Some dance as an artistic expression. Some dance in hopes you'll stop in and buy some pizza.
Driving around Gwinnett, odds are you're likely to see someone spinning or hoisting a sign to advertise a business. With the recession putting a hurt on retail sales, merchants are doing whatever it takes to get noticed.
Each fall marks the beginning of our volunteer-driven total resource campaign for the Gwinnett Chamber and we are excited to have more than 25 teams and 150 volunteers participating this year. These volunteers are being led by our 2010 Campaign Co-Chairs David Seago with Georgia Power and Derek Schwerzler with Stephen Gould Corporation and will be recruiting new members and sponsors to the Chamber as we continue our successful efforts to enhance Gwinnett and metro Atlanta's reputation as one of the best places to live and work in the U.S.
There was growth in the recession, and yes right here in the Atlanta metro area. In fact, Atlanta was named # 5 on the list of Top 10 Metro Areas – behind Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Dallas-Ft. Worth – for the most companies on the 2010 Inc. 5000 List.
So perhaps there was more business activity and growth taking place in Atlanta than realized, because 178 companies here made the magazine's annual list. Here's a look at those on top, how much they grew revenue over a three-year period ending December 31, 2009, and total revenue for 2009.
It's a spectacular 13-county corridor between Atlanta and Athens that's becoming one of the leading bioscience regions in the U.S.
Using North Carolina's Research Triangle as a model, Georgia's public and private entities came together with a vision several years ago to market the Innovation Crescent to boost economic development and establish the region as a unique science hub.
Now that the Innovation Crescent Partnership has formed, Georgia's Atlanta-to-Athens corridor hovers over its Ernst & Young ranking of seventh largest bioscience region in the nation, reaady to take off.
So, what's next? It's all about marketing and strength in numbers. The partnership pulls from 16 different economic development organizations across 13 counties, the power of several major research universities and some of the biggest business leaders on the planet.
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