The announcement of the closure of operations by VECA Airlines confirms the financial difficulties facing the various businesses belonging to Alba group in in the country.
The sale in November 2016 of the Schafik Handal fuel plant was one of the most recent signs of the financial difficulties facing the conglomerate Empresas ALBA in El Salvador, which has been around since 2006, involving in several businesses linked to the government.
Determinants of investment, committed figures, and key economic sectors in the region in which Colombian companies have ventured into in recent years.
From the summary of the document by Cepal: "Colombian Investment in Central America":
The main objective of paper on Colombian investment in Central America is to analyze the business strategies that have led to increased Colombian foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central American countries.
US food companies dealing with energy, security, automotive, medical and pharmaceutical products will be meeting with Central American companies in Guatemala City on June 22nd.
The group arriving in Guatemala City on June 22 is composed of representatives of 25 companies from different productive sectors, who will participate in talks with diplomatic authorities and meet with companies from Guatemala and the region who are in interested in exploring business opportunities.
The best way to generate entrepreneurship and innovation is not bringing people together in boring classrooms led by public officials who will never be entrepreneurs or innovative themselves, but by leaving space in the market for those who do have the courage and skills to be so.
Analysis of the overall growth of Uber, an international company that connects its customers to a transport network using software for mobile phones, is the basis for the development of a concept which states that the greater the freedom of competition is, the better products and services will be for consumers, and the greater economic development.
"It is we ourselves who are still looking ourselves as independent countries, when in fact we must work even harder on this unification."
In his article published in the magazine industry, the executive director of the Chamber of Industry of Guatemala Javier Zepeda, describes the situation which as yet has not be able to be changed: the plan for regional integration only exists on paper.
The traditional event, in its thirty-third version, will include the speaker José Ugaz, a renowned fighter against corruption.
From a statement issued by the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Panama (CCIAP):
The Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Panama (CCIAP) has ensured the success of the thirty-third version (XXXIII) of Expocomer and at the same time announced that the inauguration of the most important trade show in Latin America, will have as its keynote speaker Jose Carlos Ugaz, a Peruvian lawyer fighting corruption and promoting transparency in Latin America and in the rest of the world. In addition, the President of the Republic, Juan Carlos Varela will also be attending.
71 steps for the establishment of foreign companies in the Asian nation have been eliminated, while another 20 have been delegated to the central government.
The State Council (government) of China has announced that it will simplify administrative procedures, among which is the reduction of paperwork for foreign businessmen to set up their companies in the country.
In April and May, two Peruvian trade mission will visit Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala in search of business opportunities.
The Exporters Association of Peru (ADEX) has organized two trade missions from companies from various sectors and foreign trade students from Peru.
Gestion.pe reports that "the first exploration mission from the imports and logistics sector will be held from 16th to 20th of April in Panama and aims at learning about the trade and development opportunities in this country which trades with the world more than $18 billion and through which passes 14,000 ships and more than 12 million containers a year. "
Colombian SMEs see an opportunity to position themselves in Central America, alongside the corporations from that country that have already landed in the region.
Examples are Sirius and Cosméticos Bachué, two companies out of the nearly 200 SMEs interested in finding a place for their products in Central America and the Caribbean.
"Alvaro Gomez, director of the trade office Proexport in Costa Rica, said the country needs to double its power generation levels over the next eight years. This opens up great opportunities for electrical companies, like Sirius, in a country which in 2012 exported goods and services worth $274.4 million," noted an article in Elcolombiano.com.
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,...