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Goldens’ Foundry and Machinery Company was established in 1882 and is now best known by the brand name Goldens’ Cast Iron. It’s still Columbus-based, now run by descendants of the original founders. Here’s how the company has pivoted in the last few years, and how it has stayed true to itself and its founders’ vision.

Berlin-based HelloFresh, the largest meal-kit delivery company in the world, knew exactly what it was getting into when it decided to bring a meal-distribution facility to the state. And it couldn’t have worked out better.

RemArms joins firearms and munitions manufacturers such as Glock (Smyrna), Taurus (Bainbridge), and Daniel Defense (Black Creek) in a $2 billion sector that employed more than 10,000 people in the state in 2021, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

Doing business on the edge of a cutting-edge industry is not for the weak of will or wallet. When Netherlands-based electric vehicle (EV) player Heliox opened a new headquarters in the Brookwood Hills area of Atlanta last May, the company trumpeted pedal-to-the-metal plans to literally electrify the continent.

Forward-thinking farmers, researchers, and entrepreneurs work to make agriculture more profitable and sustainable in Georgia and beyond.