“GD Maquilador de Nicaragua”, an apparel company owned by Mexican group Denim, opened its manufacturing facility today.
It is located at Km 14.1 of the North Highway in Managua, and employs 800 workers. The company expects to increase its payroll to 3.000 by the end of the year.
Nicaraguan newspaper “La Prensa” explained that the company engages in washing, packing and shipping jeans, mostly for Wrangler.
Stream Global Services, a company focusing on Call Center Services, will install in El Salvador its main operations center for Latin America.
Rodolfo Salazar, Marketing Manager, reported that the company expects to hire 1.000 employees before the end of 2009.
He added: "...we may expand in the country if it remains competitive, and the Government contributes to generate the conditions for having more English speakers and other abilities for the various 'outsourcing' services offered by Stream", reports Elsalvador.com.
eTelecare Global Solutions has expanded an agreement with a leading telecommunications provider whereby it will provide an additional queue to this longstanding client's inbound sales program.
The additional services — designed to help the client’s U.S. customers add new communications lines or upgrade to newer or higher-tier phones — will be delivered from a new contact center located outside Managua, Nicaragua operated by eTelecare Nicaragua, a joint venture between eTelecare and Almori BPO Services, Inc.
Almori BPO Services, which has been operating in the country for more than five years, will expand its operations and expect to generate between 1,500 and 2,000 new jobs.
The company announced an alliance with e-Telecare Global Solutions.
e-Telecare Global Solutions is the strongest company in the contact center industry in the world, having more than 16 thousand positions in Asia and 2000 in the US, and will create some 500 additional positions over a three-year period at an investment of $8.15.
A total of 10 companies with Mexican, American and Central American capital will start operations in the free zones.
Mexican manufacturing companies C&C Apparel, C&C Industries and C&C Las Mercedes were authorized to operate under the free zone system. Said companies will take over the operations of Nien Hsing, which is in the process of closing operations in Nicaragua, reports said.
The company, which is dedicated to Business process outsourcing (BPO), has plans to start operating at the end of 2008, and to hire 500 people.
The service center, which will provide customer care, sales and technical support in both Spanish and English, will be installed in Managua and should open during the fourth quarter of 2008.
Operations will be carried out by eTelecare Global Solutions Nicaragua S.A., a joint venture between eTelecare and Almori BPO Services, Inc, a North American corporation.