Puerto Rico Premium Outlets will have its traditional Labor Day weekend sale Sept. 2-5to mark the end of the summer season, the retailer announces Wednesday.
President Barack Obama announced Wednesday the appointment of seven individuals to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, including former Commonwealth administration officials.
Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be among the speakers invited to the second edition of the Animus summit, an innovation platform designed to “maximize women's economic and personal development around business, mindfulness, empowerment, and entrepreneurship,” slated to take place Sept. 30 at the Caribe Hilton Hotel.
Grupo Guayacán Inc. (GGI) kicked off SPRINGBOARD this weekend, its newest entrepreneurial development offering and the first program in Puerto Rico geared at preparing local start-ups to raise early stage capital in order to grow their ventures, the seed funding firm confirmed.
Oak Leaf Solar X LLC, a Yarotek entity, has installed 2,444 solar panels at Liberty Puerto Rico’s facility in Luquillo, making the provider’s operations more sustainable and “reaffirming the companies’ respective commitments to Puerto Rico and the environment,” the company announced Monday.
In a letter sent to Sen. Orrin Hatch, who chairs the Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico, independent advisory firm Consultiva Internacional presented specific recommendations for economic development that focus on the empowerment of local businesses and leveraging Puerto Rico’s competitiveness in key industries.
HackPR, a nonprofit comprised of students and young professionals promoting the development of technical skills through unconventional teaching methods, will host its 6th annual “hackathon” Sept. 24-25, expected to draw students to work on ideas and projects.
The U.S. Small Business Administration Puerto Rico office and the humanitarian organization Nuestra Familia LGBTT Puerto Rico have entered into a strategic alliance to foster small business creation in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTT) community on the island.
New Jersey-based P3 Group, an international consulting, management and engineering services company, announced Thursday the opening of a new office in Puerto Rico to serve the growing device testing, performance assessment and network optimization needs of U.S. and global wireless carriers, device manufacturers and infrastructure providers.
Popular Community Bank, a subsidiary of Popular Inc. announced Thursday the opening of a new retail branch in Aventura, Florida, the first high-tech branch unveiled in the area, bank officials said.
The McConnell Valdés Pro Bono Program is marking a decade of continuous contribution to the development and strengthening of the nonprofit sector in Puerto Rico, to which it has granted more than 10,600 hours in free legal services — or more than $2 million — to some 300 organizations on the island.
Looking to promote local economic development and job creation, Puerto Rican company Restaurant Operators Inc., announced it is looking to fill 200 slots at its fifth Olive Garden restaurant expected to open in early 2017 at the Plaza Las Américas mall in Hato Rey.
The Puerto Rico Minority Supplier Development Council will present a proposal to the Congressional Task Force outlining a new economic model guaranteeing the reactivation of the island’s manufacturing sector through purchases from minority businesses, the nonprofit’s Chairman, José Ríos-Nieves said Tuesday.
Popular Inc. announced Tuesday that it is the second financial institution in the United States and the first in Puerto Rico to enable their credit cards for use in Cuba.
Online accounting and payroll financial solutions firm AlChavo.com recently launched a new payroll module, while it continues to expand its local and foreign presence by the hand of Microsoft’s internet cloud “Azure,” the 16-year-old company announced Tuesday.
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