Grupo Britt invested $7 million in the construction of its new 3,000-square-meter corporate center, located in the canton of Barva, in the province of Heredia.
Managers of the business group, which has presence in 13 countries, reported that the new building houses the service centers of the companies Café Britt and Morpho Travel Retail.
The company reported that by 2020 will close its Financial Shared Service Center in Costa Rica, as part of a corporate strategy focused on fewer centers, but larger.
"While we will close this center, Amway remains committed to the Costa Rican market and will continue to provide support to our businessmen and customers, our commercial operations in Costa Rica will continue normally," states a company statement.
The private transport company has announced it will invest $3.5 million in the opening of a service center and support for the operation of the company in Latin America.
From a statement issued by the CINDE:
San Jose, January 26, 2016 -Uber has announced the establishment in Costa Rica of its first Center of Excellence in Latin America. The center will create more than 300 jobs by the end of this year.
An announcement has been made that the U.S. firm Startek will be closing its operation in the country and laying off its 550 employees.
Following in the footsteps of Intel Corporation and Bank of America, the company's business process outsourcing (BPO for short) operation has announced it will close its center in Costa Rica, as confirmed by the Minister of Foreign Trade, Alexander Mora in an article on Elfinancierocr.com.
The company has announced the phased closure of the operation in the country and the laying off of 1,500 workers over a period of 9-12 months.
In addition to the service center specializing in finance and technology in Costa Rica, the U.S. bank will also cease operations in the Philippines and Mexico, as part of an overall process of re structuring of the company.
The mass consumer products company in Costa Rica will open a site for a Regional Planning Center for its Latin American Supply Chain.
A press release from CINDE Costa Rica reads:
Procter & Gamble (P & G), the world's largest mass consumer products company, has opened in Costa Rica its Regional Planning Centre for the Latin American Supply Chain. This new Centre will be responsible for leading the planning process for each plant and supplying markets in the region. In this way, Costa Rica has become the headquarters for Latin American experts in managing the supply chain for P & G. This expansion represents an additional investment of approximately $5 million.
Bridgestone's accounting operations in at least seven countries in Latin America will be managed from Costa Rica in its new Shared Services Center in San Jose.
A statement from the Costa Rican Coalition for Development Initiatives (CINDE) reads:
IBM is opening a new center of information technology in Costa Rica as the first stage of a $300 million investment over 10 years.
This investment of $300 million is scheduled to run over 10 years and there are plans to employ about 1,000 professionals by 2014, reported Elfinancierocr.com.
Costa Rica has established itself as service center for international companies, who are encouraged by its human capital and the fact that it is in the same U.S. time zone.
About 110 service companies in the free zone generated $1.66 billion in 2011, equivalent to 33% of the county’s total exports.
Convergys, an American company specializing in the service area, opened its third center in the country.
With over 35 thousand square feet, modern facilities at Park Ultra II, will allow the company to add 500 people to its payroll, amounting to 1600 employees in the country and thereby becoming one of the top ten employers in the services area, according to data from CINDE.
In the next four months, six multinational companies will open operations in the country.
Gabriela Llobet is the director of Cinde, the organism that promotes investing in Costa Rica. According to nacion.com, she refused to comment on the names of the companies, where they will be located or how much they will invest.
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