Defining the design of a shopping center, determining the mix of store types and the optimal size of stores to maximize the benefits of commercial areas, are objectives that can be achieved through the proper analysis of large volumes of data.
The volumes of data being generated in the digital environment every second enables business leaders to make well-informed decisions that are based on the analysis of empirical evidence.
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, articulated, maritime, forestry, scrap, salvage, trawl, platform cranes, hydro elevators and backhoes.
Residential developments, electrical works, commercial buildings and offices and a production plant for mashed bananas, are some of the projects which requested environmental permits in Guatemala in February 2016.
The report "Construction Projects in Guatamala - February 2016", prepared by the Business Intelligence unit at CentralAmericaData. com, provides an up to date list of major construction projects for which environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies were presented in February to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala.
On May 7th-8th Colombian exporters of building materials and finishings will meet with companies in the region in Panama City.
The Foreign Trade Promotion Office of Colombia is organizing the V Business Roundtable on building materials and finishes, to be held in Panama City in the Ancon Salon of the Sheraton Hotel .
The Salvadoran company Postes de Concreto S.A. has built a factory with a capacity to produce 125 concrete posts a day.
"Two years ago we began to operate in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, after having consolidated ourselves in El Salvador and in 2015 we thought about investing in Panama," said Mauricio Avalos, president of the company, explaining that the opening in Nicaragua is part of its strategy of expansion into Central America.
The hotel chain InterContinental Hotels Group announced the signing of two contracts for Holiday Inn Express hotels in Managua and Tegucigalpa respectively.
In total the two properties represent an increase of 220 rooms for the Holiday Inn brand family in Latin America and the Caribbean, where there are currently 18 Holiday Inn Express hotels and 24 Holiday Inn hotels.
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.
From 18 to 21 April, the eleventh construction exhibition will take place in Guatemala receiving national and foreign entrepreneurs who are seeking new investments and businesses.
According to Amanda Vega, business manager at the Guatemalan Chamber of Construction (CGC), they expect the participation of 150 national and international exhibitors, from the U.S., Spain, Korea and Central America, among other places.
The fall in European’s consumption capacities and the increase in those of the Centrals Americans has created expectations by businesses which fall outside of the traditional areas in both regions.
An article in Prensalibre.com highlights the change in the sectoral composition of Spanish trade missions in Central American territories.
Before those that came were mostly utility businesses, whereas now companies interested in these markets are producers of goods.
The Panama Canal expansion has generated a wave of investment in port infrastructure, especially in warehouses and distribution centers.
While waiting for the opening in 2015 of the expanded Panama Canal, the ports of the United States are preparing to compete for the lucrative increase in trade that is coming.
Developers, investors and the logistics industry are counting on ports, confident that these will be the main beneficiaries of the expansion of the Canal, which is expected to provide a big push for ports on the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico, and for the logistic facilities strategically located near them.
From 17 to 18 October 2012 there will be a meeting in Bogota for major infrastructure project developers, investors, employees and service providers.
Colombia is aiming to triple investment in infrastructure in order to modernize roads and railways, and through this optimize the implementation of trade agreements with global economies.
Petaquilla Gold, the largest gold mine in Panama, has announced a plant for the manufacture of tiles, bricks and slates based on clay residues from the metal extraction process.
Petaquilla Gold is venturing into the production of building materials to create a clay products factory, Petarcilla SA, which will use waste from the grinding and extraction process at the Molejón gold and silver mine.
It is very difficult to understand as reasonable the Costa Rican Comptroller's annulment of the award for a Convention Centre by the Costa Rican Tourism Institute.
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An article in Elfinancierocr.com reviews the details of a situation that is being repeated ad nauseum in most Central American countries, namely the difficulty of awarding important public works contracts with a minimum of speed and efficiency.
The Colombian Decameron Group is expanding its investments in Latin America in 2012, including the opening of two hotels in Costa Rica and one in Panama.
In Costa Rica, Decameron will open this year a 330-room Royal Decameron Irazu in San Jose, and one in Jaco Beach, with 130 rooms.
"In April, they will open the first Hard Rock hotel in Central and South America, which will be located in Panama and will have 1,463 rooms.
The President of the IDB announced funding to meet priorities in Central America and the Dominican Republic.
"This year we will maintain our response and commitment to the region," said Alberto Moreno. “The $ 2.000 million” he added, “will be used to address infrastructure priorities, particularly roads, energy, social safety nets, with an emphasis on strengthening health services, education, housing, natural disasters and climate change, finance and public safety.