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Parque Arauco S.A. (SSE: PARAUCO) (Bloomberg: PARAUCO:CI) announced that last month it completed the acquisition of the remaining 45% equity interest in Inversiones Inmobiliarias Arauco Alameda S.A.S (“IARA”), paying Grupo Bancolombia (“Bancolombia”) COP 222,489 million. Parque...

During the ORP 2015 International Occupational Risk Prevention Congress in Santiago, Chile, Bogota based insurer Colmena Seguros was recognized for its efforts in occupational risk mitigation. ORP (Occupational Risk Prevention) is an international event seeking to reduce...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has unveiled the initial results of a new methodology to measure the costs of traffic congestion and improve understanding of how poor traffic mobility affects the economy and productivity of cities in Latin America and the Caribbean....

ACE Limited announced the leadership team it intends to appoint for the Latin America region of the new Chubb Group’s Overseas General Insurance division, which includes Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Central America and the...

Yesterday, Dallas, Texas based Christus Health announced the signing of an agreement with Cali based Grupo Empresarial Coomeva Cooperativa Medica (Coomeva) in Colombia that will lead to definitive agreements in early 2016. Discussions began two years ago between Christus Health,...

Roughly 20 alternative agricultural and sustainable forestry investments will be presented to national and international investors this Thursday during the Agri Investment Latam symposium at the Hilton Bogotá (from 8am to 8pm), sponsored by Agrofuturo and ColCapital. Colombian...

Global law firm Baker & McKenzie has launched the Cross Border M&A Index, a study in conjunction with Merger Market, which forecasts a 10% growth in cross border M&A transactions driven primarily by the US, EU, and Asian markets. Still, of the $375 billion (USD)...

The Country Club of Bogota was the host for the Second Endeavor Colombia Gala on the 28th of October, bringing together 200 business leaders dedicated to promoting social development by leveraging the the high impact of entrepreneurship. In addition to the business leaders...

In the last 12 months, just 20 percent of cell phone users in Colombia have changed their provider, followed by 19 percent in Brazil and Mexico, 17 percent in Chile and Peru, and just nine percent in Argentina. Across Latin American countries, only 20 percent or less of cell...

Medellín based Grupo SURA´s insurance and risk management subsidiary, Suramericana S.A., has announced that it has reached a definite agreement to acquire RSA Insurance Group PLC´s operations in Latin America, for a total of £403 million British pounds, representing COP 1.91...