On March 29th and 30th tourism companies from 10 countries will be taking part in business meetings with local companies.
Tourism businesses from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, El Salvador, the USA, Guatemala, Panama and Venezuela will gather together on 29th and 30th of March in Nicaragua, where the Central American nation's second summer tourism fair will be held.
On March 20th-21st businessmen and representatives of the governments of the region will meet in Tela, Honduras.
Entrepreneurs and representatives of governments in the region will attend a meeting of the International-Latin American Business Council (CEAL) to be held in Honduras on 20 and 21 March.
"The will be exhibitors including the former President of Spain, José María Aznar, who will talk about the pursuit of equitable development in government-business relations."
The National Investment Council has been created, an entity composed of representatives from the public and private sector and which aims to improve the competitiveness of Honduras.
A series of policies implemented by the new government to encourage the private sector, including the creation of the National Investment Council (CNI by its initials in Spanish) is made up of representatives from the public and business sector.
Companies created under this decree may have only one partner, and a minimum capital that is strictly voluntary.
The "Law for employment generation, promotion of entrepreneurship, business formalization and protection of investor rights" passed by Congress aims to promote business and employment generation in the country.
"The new law authorizes the establishment of commercial companies under any mode recognized by the Code of Commerce, as well as its modification, transformation, merger, division, capital raising and other events related to normal activity and performance," reported Latribuna.hn.
A ruling states that the already concentrated Honduran cement market will not be altered by the sale of shares to the Colombian company Argos.
From a press release by the Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Competition (CDPC):
The Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Competition (CDPC) as part of its advocacy of free competition within the framework of its powers and in relation to economic concentrations, was notified about a project of economic concentration in the Cement Industry, involving the economic agents Cementos Argos, S. A de C.V. (buyer) and Lafarge Cementos S.A. Unipersonal (seller).
Continued economic deterioration during the government of Porfirio Lobo has led businessmen to prefer the leftist opposition candidate over the ruling party man.
An article in Elnuevoherald.com reports that Adolfo Facussé, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, said that the current government "... is an economic disaster, giving out money in political campaigns, increasing public administration and making unnecessary tenders which are not very transparent".
Globalization increases the need to protect the brand names of products which have become an increasingly valuable asset allowing effective communication with customers.
"One of the characteristics of brand names is to be something distinctive, a vehicle of communication between the seller and the consumer, which can become a very valuable asset," says Bernal Molina, from the Industrial Property Department at the National Registry Office.
It is not the poor who are taking advantage of Central America's vast agricultural potential but those who are able to access technology and financing.
The is one of the sectors with the greatest demand and growth opportunities, but funding and intervention is needed in order to gain a greater advantage.
Lucydalia Baca Castellon conducted and interview for Laprensa.com.ni with Ernesto Gallo, professor at the Escuela Zamorano de Honduras, who says that agriculture is not an activity for poor people, but one of the most difficult and demanding businesses there is.
For a total of $305 million, the company from Colombia has acquired more than half of the assets of the French multinational Lafarge in Honduras.
"We have acquired facilities which have extraordinary efficiency and quality in the target region, but also under economic conditions which are attractive and have high growth potential," said Jorge Mario Velasquez, president of Argos.
On 7th and 8th of November 150 participants from the U.S. and Latin America will gather together during the first Central American summit on outsourcing services to be held in Nicaragua.
From information published by ProNicaragua:
ProNicaragua, the official investment and export promoter of the Government of Nicaragua, will be organizing the first Central American summit on outsourcing services entitled 'Central American Nearshore Summit 2013, which will bring together 150 participants from the U.S. and Latin America in this sector.
Aquafeed will produce 100 thousand tons of feed for fish and shrimp for its partner Aquafinca other aquaculture businesses.
The new company, which has set itself up in the town of San Francisco de Yojoa, was created through a partnership between Aquafinca and Gisis S.A. of Ecuador.
Orlando Delgado, Aquafinca's manager, explained that previously fish food had to be imported from Ecuador but with this new company that will not be necessary.
This August a delegation of 30 businessmen from Peru will come in search of business opportunities.
Honduras and Peru will create what will soon be the first Business Council of Commerce between the two countries, reported a diplomatic source today in Tegucigalpa .
Peru's ambassador in Honduras, Guillermo Gonzalez, added that entrepreneurs from the areas of plastics, fertilizers, handicrafts and pisco producers are those who will visit the country.
Taxes paid in cash by thermal power generators for diesel and bunker fuel imports could be returned in the form of state bonds.
Elheraldo.hn reports that "staff at the Ministry of Finance (Sefin) participated "in an analysis and preparation of regulation for tax payments to thermal generators through bonds".
This measure has annoyed thermal companies, who believe that if they pay taxes in cash, the repayment should be made under the same terms.
Recognized Brazilian company of backhoe loaders, telescopic, articulated and other types of cranes looking for companies interested in representing the brand and distributing their machinery in Central America and Mexico. The company manufactures and sells telescopic,...