BUISNESS INTELIGENCE
Which shopping center should I choose to open my store?Wednesday, February 2, 2022 The key to attracting potential customers to any new location is to determine its foot traffic potential, the use of geospatial data combined with footfall analytics makes the retail site selection process easier, faster, and more reliable. At PREDIK Data-Driven we support corporations by optimizing their site selection strategies with 100% data-driven methodologies. One of our clients, a major regional footwear retail corporation, was able to determine in which shopping mall it was more convenient to open its first brick and mortar store, thus reducing investment risks and maximizing its revenues, having identified its potential customers and its target market in the malls.
SUCCESS CASE
Geomarketing & Retail Expansion Plan: Case StudyWednesday, December 1, 2021 Organizations rely on the effective use of big data and geomarketing techniques as the backbone of all their processes and decision making, reducing the risks of new investments associated with expansion plans and new store openings. At PREDIK Data-Driven we support global corporations to optimize their expansion strategies with 100% data-driven methodologies. China: Main Market for Costa Rican MeatThursday, June 10, 2021 During the first four months of 2021, companies operating in Costa Rica sold $22 million worth of beef to China, this figure represents 54% of the total exported by the Central American country. Data from the Foreign Trade Promotion Agency (Procomer) show that from January to April of this year, Costa Rican beef exports to China totaled $22 million, to the U.S. $8 million and to Puerto Rico $5 million. Convenience Stores: More Competition in Costa RicaMonday, May 24, 2021 With the opening of its first store, which will be located in the La California neighborhood of the country's capital, a chain of stores named "Oli!" will begin to compete in the local market in June 2021. The new store chain will be operated by the local business group IMLC Group and will compete in a market segment that is dominated by AM PM, Corporacion Automercado, among other chains. Restaurants: Innovations in the New RealityThursday, May 13, 2021 Some of the innovations that the Guatemalan chain Pollo Campero has implemented in this new commercial reality include investing in the implementation of establishments that serve only home delivery service and setting up open spaces to serve more consumers. As a result of the spread of Covid-19, restaurant chains were forced to close the table area. In this context, companies focused on mitigating their economic losses through food delivery sales..
CONSTRUCTION PLATFORM
Multipurpose Towers: $16 Million in New InvestmentWednesday, April 28, 2021 Two towers that will house 119 apartments, 61 offices and 43 commercial spaces are to be built on a 4,014 square meter site located in zone 15 of Guatemala City. According to the interactive platform "Construction in Central America" of CentralAmericaData's Business Intelligence area, Corporación Turena S.A., submitted to the Ministry of Environment the Environmental Impact Study (EIA) to develop the project called "Gaura". Commercial Restrictions: Losses IncreaseTuesday, April 20, 2021 As a result of the restrictions imposed by the Guatemalan Government, local businessmen estimate that sales in the commercial sector last weekend fell by up to 50% and the number of customers in restaurants and shopping centers decreased considerably. In order to promote actions aimed at interrupting the epidemiological chain of the Covid-19 disease, Ministerial Agreement 87-2021 was published on April 17 in the Diario de Centroamerica, a regulatory framework that requires a 25% reduction in the capacity of shopping malls, commercial centers, convenience stores and restaurants. Electricity: New Investments AnnouncedThursday, April 8, 2021 In El Salvador during 2021, AES announced that it plans to invest between $60 and $75 million in the development of new solar energy projects and works in the distribution network. The company already has investments in the country. In October 2019 CentralAmericaData reported that the companies AES and Corporacion Multi Inversiones had inaugurated in the municipality of Guazapa, a solar power plant with a generation capacity of 10 megawatts. Logistics Center: $80 Million InvestmentTuesday, March 30, 2021 The Panamanian government announced that Grupo Rey plans to invest in the construction of a distribution center, which will be located in the community of Pacora on a 55-hectare plot of land. According to the Government of Panama, the Ecuadorian consortium Corporacion Favorita, owner of Grupo Rey, which groups a chain of supermarkets and stores, is planning to execute an ambitious investment plan in the next few years.
GEOMARKETING SOLUTIONS
Enterprise Solutions: Logistics ApplicationsWednesday, March 24, 2021 Identifying whether in the logistics chain of crates used for beverage transportation there are possible illegitimate uses and detecting the points in the process where theft is more likely to occur, are part of the problems that can be solved through business intelligence methodologies. Nowadays, companies and work teams make decisions and design their business strategies through data analysis and the use of tailor-made Business Intelligence solutions. Vehicles: New Competitor in Costa RicaWednesday, March 10, 2021 Corporacion de Industria Automotriz de Beijing, which opened a dealership in La Uruca, San José, expects to sell between 800 and 1,000 vehicles of different types in the next three years. Company executives informed that the company will offer in the Costa Rican market SUV-type vehicles with prices ranging between $17,900 and $23,900, sedans with a price of $19,200 and the 4x4 segment which will be marketed at $39,900. Legal Certainty: What are Investors asking for?Wednesday, March 3, 2021 A few weeks before the new magistrates of the Constitutional Court take office in Guatemala, the business sector is asking that the new members of the highest court advocate for a real rule of law and provide legal certainty to investments. In recent years, Guatemala's Constitutional Court (CC) has gained prominence in the country's economic sphere, as its rulings have affected different investments that were already operating locally.
MARKET STUDY
Medicines: How is the Institutional Market Performing?Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Agencia Farmaceutica S.A., Corporacion Impa Doel S.A., Hispomedica SRL and Cefa Central Farmaceutica are among the companies that won contracts last year to supply medicines and pharmaceutical products to public health institutions in the region. An analysis by CentralAmericaData's Business Intelligence department provides interesting data on the companies that in 2020 were awarded contracts to supply pharmaceutical products and medical supplies to the different Ministries of Health and Social Security entities in Central American countries and the Dominican Republic.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
$48 Million in Water and Sanitation WorksThursday, November 26, 2020 The Corporacion del Acueducto y Alcantarillados de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, tenders the execution of solutions for drinking water and sewage. Dominican Republic Government purchase CAASD-MAE-PEUR-2020-0001: Banana Price Faces Downward PressureThursday, November 12, 2020 Since 2018, the price of the banana box that Costa Rican producers sell to the German supermarket chain ALDI is falling, there is concern that other European chains will begin to negotiate lower prices. Representatives of the National Banana Corporation of Costa Rica (Corbana) explained that in 2018 the 18.14 kilo banana box sold to ALDI was quoted at 13.55 Euros. |
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