For the second consecutive year, Walmart Puerto Rico, through a partnership with the Education Department will help mothers who have not completed high school to get their diploma through its social responsibility program, “Mom goes back to School.”
The recent signing of agreements to operate four new Froyo World stores raises to six the number of locations of this frozen yogurt franchise that will be operating before the end of 2013 in Puerto Rico, said Ricardo Lozada, local master franchiser for the chain.
Let's be frank about it. A good business website requires a bit of malicious intent.
The ability to organize is the basis of life. A true foundation of a civilized world. As the world turns, so change the methods of bringing humans together to a point of common interest. In the field of commerce, to a point of sale.
In the past five years, Puerto Rico has experienced an unprecedented surge in its lionfish population.
If your business hasn't one yet...it should by now. A website, I mean. The size of the business doesn't matter anymore. Every small biz or any multinational corporation deserves a radiant spot in the World Wide Web. Rather, it needs to have a very rewarding presence online.
We knew that the recently completed study on Puerto Rico’s maritime cargo would be controversial because cabotage issues, part of the study, have been discussed for decades and have become an emotional and politically charged subject.
Ana Mari Toro moved to Atlanta a year ago along with her husband, Eduardo, an ob-gyn, and their three children. While on vacation in Puerto Rico recently, she had a bad customer service experience at the largest mall cinema complex. After waiting in line for nearly half hour for an order, neither the employee, nor the manager could fulfill her request: nachos with cheese on the side and popcorn.
Technology has key effects on business operations in Puerto Rico today more than ever, especially in the start-up business and entrepreneur’s arena. No matter the size of the enterprise, technology has both tangible and intangible benefits that will help produce the results that customers demand.
After the long-awaited and much-touted arrival to the local market, IKEA, the Swedish/Dutch company founded by Ingvar Kamprad in 1943, opened its first store in Puerto Rico in Bayamon, last week. The concept unveiled is modeled after the one in the Canary Islands, Spain and the Dominican Republic, called an “IKEA Point” (Punto IKEA).
Parranda.org, a nonprofit created to help unite the “Greater Puerto Rico” — the 4.6 million in the states, an unknown number living in foreign countries, and the 3.7 million that remain in Puerto Rico — held a summit last week in which nearly 100 attendees from all walks of life produced a myriad of ideas to improve Puerto Rico, its economy and its collective life.
I met Luis Rodríguez-Báez thanks to Carmen Otero. That meeting, sparked a spontaneous admiration in me that few people provoke.
The main problem with the “national brand” that we have tried to develop is that we ourselves have sabotaged it. Many initiatives have been rejected for the sake of the continued polarization of forces distilled in circles demanding foolish leadership roles.
Thanks to the support of tens of followers on Antrocket.com, juvenile Judo athlete Adrian Gandía is now closer to his goal of obtaining a medal for Puerto Rico in the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.
If Senate Bill 400, granting the Puerto Rico Products Association exclusive rights to manage the “Hecho en Puerto Rico” brand is approved, I would probably have to pay the Association some sort of fee for using said “brand” in my headline and surely ask their permission to use it.
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