Invest Atlanta, the city’s economic development arm, said this week its recruitment efforts helped create more than 2,000 new jobs inside Atlanta in 2012.
The organization formerly known as the Atlanta Development Authority retooled in the past 18 months under new President and CEO Brian McGowan to focus more on jobs, cultivating start-ups and helping local firms grow. Invest Atlanta helped recruit children’s apparel maker Carters, insurance software firm Asurion and a Panasonic research center.
The agency said its efforts resulted in an estimated economic impact of $760 million last year. Job recruitment efforts netted more than 500 new jobs in 2010 and more than 1,800 in 2011, McGowan said.
“With the economy beginning to move again, we will build on these results in 2013 and reach even higher goals we have set for ourselves,” he said in a news release.
