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The first of two Four Seasons Hotels has opened in Bogotá Q4 2015. After a multimillion dollar remodel that started in December of 2014, the historic Casa Medina in Bogotá’s Zona-G near the Financial District reopened as Four Seasons Casa Medina. Owned by the Gilinski Group, the...

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...

CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software company ForceManager has opened a Bogotá Colombia office to serve Colombia and the Andes market, after over a year of preparation. ForceManager already has clients in 22 countries and the software works in five languages: English,...

ProColombia and the Colombian Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications will host the first technology focused Business Matchmaking forum to pair roughly 70 Colombian companies with an expected 150 to 200 Canadian and US buyers and investors October 28 and 29, 2015...

APM Terminals and Colombian-based port and terminal operating company, Compañia de Puertos Asociados S.A. (Compas S.A.) have signed a joint venture agreement to jointly manage and operate Compas S.A.’s existing multi purpose Cartagena Terminal. APM Terminals and Compas S.A. will...

Medellín has come a long way from its notorious and rapidly receeding past decades. What is the secret to their success in turning around their urban society, shedding old manacles and gaining a reputation as one of the world’s most innovative cities? Finance Colombia recently...

According to a report released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean Set a New Record High in 2014, the recordbreaking increase in remittances (money transfers) to Latin America reflects...

Colombia has turned out to be one of the major players in the growth of LTE in Latin America due to early commercial launches of the technology in 2012, preceding even the launches in the US by Sprint and T-Mobile and beating out markets like Denmark, Spain, France and Italy. The...

Iberian company Digitex has been experiencing tremendous growth of late, using its global footprint to find success beyond its Iberian home. In 2014 alone, the company realized 30% revenue growth in Colombia alone, providing a mix of technology and services to corporate...

This year’s guest nation at Colombia’s “Féria Internacionál del Libro” will be Macondo, the fictional country imagined by the late “Gabo,” Gabriel Garcia Márquez, the Colombian author who was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. A 3,000 square-meter pavilion honoring the...