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Pages in category "Companies based in Atlanta" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 256 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Coca-Cola world headquarters. The Atlanta economy is the 10th largest in the country and 18th in the world with an estimated 2014 GDP of over $324 billion. Atlanta is one of ten U.S. cities classified as an "alpha-world city" by a 2010 study at Loughborough University, [1] and ranks fourth in the number of Fortune 500 companies headquartered within city boundaries, behind New York City ...
In the 1890s, Buckhead was rechristened Atlanta Heights but by the 1920s it was again "Buckhead". [7] A cycling event, "Georgia Rides to the Capitol," on Piedmont Road. Buckhead remained dominated by country estates until after World War I, when many of Atlanta's wealthy began building mansions among the area's rolling hills. [6]
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Boundary definitions vary by source. In many cases, Midtown is a quasi-legal entity for zoning, law enforcement, and tax purposes. It is defined by the City of Atlanta to include the business district along Peachtree Street as well as Historic Midtown, the residential area east of Piedmont Avenue and to the south of Piedmont Park. [6] [7]
Around 1970 the area began to decline as middle-class families moved away because blue-collar jobs in the neighborhood were slowly disappearing. The assembly plant finally closed in 1990. [8] The area is now an important center of the growing Atlanta-area film and television production industry.
Downtown Atlanta is the central business district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.The largest of the city's three commercial districts (Midtown and Buckhead being the others), it is the location of many corporate and regional headquarters; city, county, state, and federal government facilities; Georgia State University; sporting venues; and most of Atlanta's tourist attractions.
Scientific Atlanta, Inc. was a Georgia, United States–based manufacturer of cable television, telecommunications, and broadband equipment.Scientific Atlanta was founded in 1951 by a group of engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and was purchased by Cisco Systems in 2005 for $6.9 billion after Cisco received antitrust clearance for the purchase.