Keeping online inventories as close as possible to their customers through the strategic location of emerging distribution centers, micro-distribution centers and dark stores is currently one of the most important challenges for companies.
Due to the change in consumer habits, the restrictions imposed by the pandemic and the popularization of online commerce, companies are busy optimizing their distribution channels for Internet sales.
The change in consumer habits resulting from the boom in e-commerce and the preference for avoiding visits to physical stores, has forced some large commercial surfaces to be transformed into storage and logistics areas.
The covid-19 outbreak caused the emergence of a new commercial reality, in which consumers are less willing to go to physical stores to make certain purchases and prefer to store online.
The Galerias Shopping Center in Escalon and its surroundings is a commercial point that in San Salvador has a large market of more than 318 thousand people, which can be covered with home delivery just 15 minutes away by car.
In CentralAmericaData we developed a geomarketing tool based on interactive isochronous maps, through which you can identify where people are and what characteristics they have as consumers. The map incorporates, for any Central American country, the variables population, income and average monthly expenses. With this information, it is possible to identify potential clients and define promotional strategies accordingly, or also explore home delivery times from any sales point.
Locating customers and estimating their potential consumption, choosing strategic locations for distribution points and calculating product delivery times are some of the tasks that occupy companies in this context of changing consumption patterns.
Many of the changes in purchasing patterns resulting from the crisis generated by the Covid-19 virus in the region will not be temporary; several of them are here to stay.
Allowing import, export and transit processes to be carried out efficiently is the recommendation of the region's businessmen to avoid product shortages in the regional market.
For the Federation of Chambers and Industrial Associations of Central America and the Dominican Republic (Fecaica), governments should continue to take the measures considered necessary so that the cases detected so far do not continue to multiply, or at least, the contagion curve can be minimized, taking actions such as activating and expanding emergency response mechanisms and informing the population about the risks and ways to protect themselves.
Droguería Americana, S.A. de C.V. and C. Imberton, S.A. de C.V., are under investigation for allegedly agreeing on pricing and division of customers relating to the distribution of three medicines nationwide.
The companies investigated are alleged to have agreed to fix prices and divide up customers in relation to distribution of the medicines Cataflam Oral Suspesion9 Mg.120 Mil x 1 (5ml) - an antiinflammatory and antirheumatic-, Diovan Capsules.160 Mg x 14 - related to the cardiovascular system - and Lamisil Tablets 250 Mg.X 28 - topical antifungals used in dermatology.
The spanish company that manufactures textiles for hotels and hospitals, Resuinsa, has announced the opening in Costa Rica of a distribution center for the region.
Resuinsa announced that from its logistics center in Costa Rica it will distribute its products to Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador, as well as supplying the local market.The company manufactures and supplies textiles to hotel chains, hospitals and nursing homes.
Ransa group plans to invest $4 million in the construction of a cold chamber in Guatemala and is preparing to expand its warehouses in El Salvador.
The Central American subsidiary of the Peruvian operator Ransa is also assessing whether the conditions are right to develop a cold chain in Honduras.In the case of the investments planned for Guatemala, it has been reported that the plan is to invest $4 million in total"... 2,000 positions, where there will be specialized containers forrefrigerated and frozen products. In addition, they will build a distribution center for dry goods, thereby increasing their ability to benefit customers. "
The report "Social Panorama of Latin America" makes clear that declines in poverty rates are directly related to the rate of growth in revenue and are not the result of distribution policies.
The recent report published by Cepal, called "Social Panorama of Latin America" highlights countries which reduced poverty levels through improved income, not redistribution of that income, as is the case of Panama, Colombia and even Uruguay, which was the country that best fought poverty between 2010 and 2014. The report explains that the general improvement in that period was mainly due to changes in average incomes.
The government intends to develop, using public-private partnership model, a distribution center for agricultural products.
The central government has presented the initiative to representatives of the Chamber of Agriculture and Agribusiness (Camargo), and estimated that the work would require an investment of between $80 million and $100 million.
PPG Industries has completed the acquisition of Comex Central America, adding 57 stores to its sales network in Central America in the paint and refurbishment line.
From a press release issued by PPG Industries:
PITTSBURGH, June 2, 2015 – PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) today announced that it has acquired Consorcio Latinoamericano, which operates a network of 57 paint stores in Central America. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The Superintendency of Competition in El Salvador has pointed out that the businesses MOLSA and HARISA are still forging agreements on sharing the market, having been previously sanctioned for the practice.
Six years after being punished for engaging in anticompetitive practices, the companies MOLSA and HARISA are again under scrutiny by the competition regulator, whose head submitted documents "... as evidence of an agreement established by the two companies to share the wheat market in El Salvador. "
The ESKE Group has announced te opening of a distribution hub in Panama City to redistribute its generic lines imported from India and Europe and those manufactured in Peru.
Group ESKE, an importer of generic drugs from India and Europe and others that it manufactures at its plant in Peru, intends to establish in Panama a distribution hub for the entire region.
In 2014 the consumption of fresh produce went down, the frequency of trips to the shops changed and the preference for large supermarkets has returned.
From a statement issued by the Costa Rica Foreign Trade Promotion Office (Procomer):
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,...
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