From modest beginnings as a taylor shop in Santiago, Chile and founded by Italian immigrant Salvatore Falabella in the late 1800s, S.A.C.I. Falabella has grown to become the biggest department…
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Chilean holding company Quiñenco S.A. seems to be quite a bargain right now. In fact, being a publicly-traded holding company and trading for book value at $ 4.2 billion, the…
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The tourism industry in Mexico is quite a solid and thriving one. Indeed, industry sources already claim the fact that tourism is now the fourth largest contributing sector to the…
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An arbitrage opportunity is possible right this minute by shorting Nortel Inversora S.A. while using the proceeds to go long with Telecom Argentina S.A. In fact, Nortel Inversora's only asset…
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This is the story of a formidable and self-made entrepreneur born in Bolivia to a family of holocaust survivors from Poland whose name is Germán Efromovich. From modest beginnings having…
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The following is a list of prominent entrepreneurs who found niche markets to exploit in Latin America and where they happen to be leaders in their respective industries: …
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Venezuela has long been an oil exporting based economy ever since huge deposits were found in Lake Maracaibo around the beginning of the previous century. Nevertheless, the manufacturing and commodities…
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Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. has shed at least 50% of its market value in the last 6 months or 26 weeks to be precise because the company…
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I think the dream Eike Batista had for turning resource-rich Brazil into a superpower was right from the beginning and the worse of his crumbling empire may not be over…
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The government of Honduras is promoting the island of Roatán, located just a few miles off the shores of the country, with the intent of transforming it into a prime…
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