In the retail business, large distributors boost the sales of their own brand products through strategies aimed at consumers who prioritize the price factor over other elements when buying.
Globally, the tendency to buy private label products is becoming more and more evident in markets, as companies engaged in the retail trade of other products, such as supermarket chains, are capitalizing on their experience by placing their own products and competing with their suppliers.
The Constitutional Court has rejected the appeal made by Holcim which protested against the 5% tax on the sale of cement produced in some provinces.
The Swiss company Holcim Capital won an appeal against the Law on 5% Tax on the sale of the cement produced in three provinces: Cartago, Guanacaste and San Jose, considering it "discriminatory" and harmful to their competitiveness.
The Technological Institute of Costa Rica is putting out to tender the construction of a Building for Industrial Design at its headquarters in the province of Cartago.
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"Integrated Industrial Design Core. The Technological Institute of Costa Rica through the Department of Supplies, located in Building D-4 Headquarters, will be receiving bids for the building of Industrial Design, Headquarters, Cartago. "
Without having read the contract with the construction company and ignoring final costs, the Legislature has approved the loan with the Chinese government to finance the extension of the road to Limón.
The loan with the government of China for $485 million is tied to a commercial contract with the Chinese state-run construction company CHEC, highly questioned not only technically but at the legal level, since it is one of the companies "...
The intense media apparatus unleashed by solar panel producers should not make us avoid the necessary analysis of the real possibilities currently offered by this technology for homes.
In addition to the cost of purchasing and installing a solar panel, the climatic conditions of our tropical countries must be taken into account and the amount of energy this form of alternative energy produces during wet periods.
The objective of the Masters Degree is to train professionals to apply their knowledge acquired in the improvement of manufacturing activities and to serve the needs of the industry.
From a statement issued by the Costa Rican Coalition for Development Initiatives (CINDE):
TEC Opens First Master of Engineering in Medical Devices in Latin America
The large infrastructure projects that have been announced will need to import human resources according to the demand created by such works.
The new container terminal in Moin, the extension of Route 32 and the new refinery are the new projects that are coming to the province. Regarding these, Wilberth Mata, director of the headquarters of the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (RERI) said that "in Limon there is not enough qualified people to meet the labor demand as it arises over the next few years."
The greater metropolitan area (GAM) needs to renew a plan dating from 1982 to address overcrowding, sound, light and environmental pollution, poor waste disposal, and traffic chaos.
Nación.com reports that "After years of debate and millions of dollars spent on failed projects, environmentalists, public bodies, private companies and municipalities have reached a consensus on the GAM 2013 Plan."
Urban growth in the east of the Costa Rican capital is underpinned by investment proposals in the Special Economic Zone of Cartago.
The achievements of investment attraction in the province include the opening in November of Paseo Metropolis and the opening of the first phase of Oficentro Terra Campus Corporativo, said Silvia Hidalgo, Director of the Center for University-Industry Links at the Tecnológico de Costa Rica College.
Public and private entities in Cartago are pushing for the creation of a special economic zone (ZEE in Spanish).
The initiative aims to promote links between Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the area and large enterprises, while promoting job creation in the area of science and technology.
An article on El Financiero’s website in the SMEs section notes, "according to a report last June, by the Cartago Chamber of Commerce, published in the journal Somos Empresarios, the plan of creating a ZEE is consistent with development strategies formulated by Cinde, the Ministry of Foreign Trade (COMEX) and the Plan of Urban and Regional Planning of the Greater Metropolitan Area (PRUGAM).
The Academy of Central America heads a group of companies and institutions seeking to promote the use of banking services in this sector.
With funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Office of Technical Cooperation of Spain, the project seeks to combat poverty in this immigrant sector, for which it is implementing different methods, including lower remittance costs, by intensifying the use of banking services such as savings accounts.
Last year at least 82 IT companies lost a total of $72 million because they lack some 2,300 computer technicians and professionals.
This data comes from a diagnosis done by the Chamber of Information Technology and Communication (Camtic), with support from universities, in order to know the panorama and to provide proposals that will improve it.
For example, the creation of a national plan for technological formation, an innovation center and an agency specialized in IT, to name a few.
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