↓ "Several
major national and international companies are headquartered in Atlanta or its nearby suburbs,
including three Fortune 100 companies: The Coca-Cola Company, Home Depot, and United Parcel
Service in adjacent Sandy Springs. The headquarters of AT&T Mobility (formerly Cingular
Wireless), the second largest mobile phone service provider in the United States, is located
near Lenox Square. Newell Rubbermaid is one of the most recent companies to relocate to the
metro area; in October 2006, it announced plans to move its headquarters to Sandy
Springs.
Other
headquarters for some major companies in Atlanta and around the metro area include Arby's,
Chick-fil-A, Earthlink, Equifax, Gentiva Health Services, Georgia-Pacific, Oxford Industries,
RaceTrac Petroleum, Southern Company, SunTrust Banks, Mirant, and Waffle House. In early June
2009, NCR Corporation announced that they will relocate its headquarters to the nearby suburb of
Duluth, Georgia. First Data is also a large corporation who announced in August 2009 that they
would move its headquarters to Sandy Springs.
Over 75%
of the Fortune 1000 companies have a presence in the Atlanta area, and the region hosts offices
of about 1,250 multinational corporations. As of 2006 Atlanta Metropolitan Area ranks as the
10th largest cybercity (high-tech center) in the US, with 126,700 high-tech
jobs.
Delta Air Lines is the city's largest employer and the metro area's
third largest. Delta operates one of the world's largest airline hubs at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport and, together with the hub of competing carrier AirTran Airways, has helped
make Hartsfield-Jackson the world's busiest airport, both in terms of passenger traffic and
aircraft operations. The airport, since its construction in the 1950s, has served as a key engine
of Atlanta's economic growth."
-- Atlanta. (2010, May 4). InWikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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