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The $100 million project will create more than 200 jobs in Loxley. The 564,000-square-foot facility, scheduled to open next year, will be ALDI’s sixth distribution center in the South and can serve up to 100 stores in Alabama, southern Georgia, Mississippi, the Florida Panhandle, and Louisiana. https://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/news/2021/02/11/aldi-breaks-ground-alabama-project.html?utm_source=st&utm_medium=en&utm_campaign=me&utm_content=bb&ana=&j=22913689

The German government has warned of suspected attempts to disrupt the coronavirus vaccination campaign by foreign intelligence groups as well as conspiracy theorists, according to a media report. “Several suspected attempts to spy on German vaccine manufacturers have already become known,” newspapers of the Funke media group quoted the Interior Ministry as saying. The statement was

Article by Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in WELT (in German) and CNN. This year, Germany celebrates a special anniversary: Ancient documents have found that people of Jewish faith have been living in today’s Germany since the year 321. This anniversary reminds us how deep our Jewish roots run, and of the great extent to which they shape who we

At the beginning of 2020, I resolved to ignore, as far as possible, celebrations of the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, which fell last month. The uncontested titan of classical music receives sufficient attention in an ordinary year, and there is no lazier way of programming a musical season than letting it be dictated

My Supply Chain Group LLC, a Birmingham-based IT company that provides supply chain planning processes and application implementation services for clients, has been acquired by the German-based itelligence | NTT DATA Business Solutions.  The financial details were not disclosed to the BBJ.  With this acquisition, itelligence | NTT DATA Business is expanding its presence in

The capital has become the latest area in Germany to introduce a restriction on movement if the seven day incidence (the number of Covid-19 infections per 100,000 residents in seven days) climbs above 200. The state government decided on Tuesday that from a seven-day incidence of 200, a radius of 15 km will be drawn

Germany is set to enter a stricter shutdown, with most states beginning to enforce the new rules on Monday. We break them down – and how they vary state by state. In order to stem high coronavirus infection figures, Germany’s 16 state premiers, together with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), decided to tighten and extend Germany’s

Fewer people are paying with cash in Germany and the European Union — a trend that the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated. But there are risks involved with “fast” and “hygienic” contactless payment. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, companies were encouraging their customers to pay without using cash. In 2018, people in Germany spent more money using cards

Germany’s leading index of 30 major companies hit a new high of over 14,000 points. Hopes for a successful coronavirus vaccination campaign pushed up other stock markets as well. As hope spreads that new vaccines will help the world put the coronavirus in the rearview mirror, Germany’s leading DAX index reached a new high of just

“We all saw the unsettling pictures of the storming of the Congress building yesterday evening. These pictures made me angry and also sad. I am, however, sure that this democracy will prove to be much stronger than the attackers and rioters,“ said Chancellor Angela Merkel following the events in Washington D.C. Watch her message here.