Stryker, a medical technology company, opened a new financial services center to be located in the province of Heredia, from where it will support all its financial activities in the Americas.
The operation is in San Antonio Business Park, in Heredia, where the company opened its offices since last April, according to official information.
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.
In Costa Rica, the company Matra, dedicated to the commercialization of machinery, invested $25 million in its new facilities in Coyol, Alajuela, with a construction area of 17 thousand m2.
The new facilities were built on a six-hectare site and include a truck workshop, paint shop, warehouse, offices, rental, exhibition area and machinery house.
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Excel Automotriz opened a new service center of 2 thousand square meters, at kilometer 126.5 of the highway to the Atlantic in Rio Hondo, Zacapa.
Company executives informed that in the new service center there will be maintenance and repair of vehicles, and also sell different types of spare parts.
In Guatemala, Cofiño Stahl opened a new service center in Alta Verapaz, at kilometer 214 of the road from Cobán to San Pedro Carchá.
The new enclosure will have the services of alignment, balancing and 4 bays for the support of the maintenance of the automobiles, one of express service, in which the service will be provided by means of appointment programming.
Honda invested $8 million in the construction of its new service center, which has a 14,000 square meter area and is located in Zone 10 of the capital.
The Honda Center is a five-story, two-basement building in which the company has areas for salesrooms, parking spaces and vehicle repair shops.
The company announced that the new service center specializing in finance and accounting, which will be in Heredia, arises as a result of an alliance with the chain Walmart.
Genpact, a multinational professional services company dedicated to digital transformation, reported that from its new service center in Costa Rica, will support Walmart's operations in Latin America.
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 Yamaha distributor in Costa Rica invested $5 million in the construction of a 4,000-square-meter building with a sales room, workshop and a parts store.
Lutz Hermanos y Compañía, distributor of the aforementioned motorcycle brand, inaugurated its new building in front of Capris, in La Uruca, San José.
IBM announced that it will invest $21 million in expanding the operations of its Security Services Center in Costa Rica, which includes the extension of facilities and staff training.
With the investment the company will make during 2019, the operations center will become IBM's largest in Latin America. In addition to the expansion of the site's infrastructure, it was reported that new services will also be added, including incident response, forensic analysis, managed detection and response as well as X-Force Threat Management.
Liberty Latin America plans to establish a new operations center in Panama City, from where it will coordinate the company's activities at the Latin American level.
The company reported they selected Panama because they plan to take advantage of its economic stability, its profile as a logistics hub in the region and its great physical and digital connectivity.
U.S. medical technology company Stryker announced the opening of a financial services center in the country, through which it will support its operations in the region.
From the statement of the Costa Rican Coalition of Development Initiatives:
San José, Costa Rica. November 5, 2018. Stryker, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, announced it will open an office in Costa Rica, as it creates a hub for finance activities and services.
Amazon has opened a new service center in San José, from where it will provide support to small and medium companies who sell their products on the platform.
In 2009, Amazon started its Seller Support operations in Costa Rica with only 30 employees. Today, its new site - El Tobogán Corporate Center - now houses 900 employees.The company has invested close to $10 million dollars in its new building in San Jose.
Johnson Controls has started operating a new service center in San José, from where it will provide assistance to its clients in the real estate industry.
From a statement issued by the CINDE:
Costa Rica, December 14, 2017 - Johnson Controls celebrated the opening of its first Center of Excellence in Sales Support, located in San José. The new facilities will allow Johnson Controls to improve the service provided to its clients in the real estate industry, offering consulting in engineering, electrical design, mechanical design, telecommunications design, sustainability services and project management during the design and construction process to a large variety of clients.
The Swiss-based pharmaceutical company Lonza will be opening a shared services center in San José, from where it will provide accounting and finance services to the company's operations in America.
From a statement issued by the CINDE:
San José, October 31 2017.Lonza, one of the world's leading and most trusted suppliers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and specialty products markets, announced today that it plans to open a shared services center in Costa Rica to serve the company's operation in the Americas. .