Off-price retailer T.J.Maxx is marking its first anniversary of operations in Puerto Rico with the opening of three new stores in Carolina, Ponce and Caguas, on Nov. 10.
Economic Development Bank President Ivonne Otero and University of Puerto Rico President Miguel Muñoz unveiled Tuesday the "University Business Movement" program, a new initiative that seeks to promote an entrepreneurial spirit among college students.
Just weeks before the year’s busiest shopping season is set to start, Walmart Puerto Rico announced the immediate expansion of its 24-hour, seven-days-a-week schedule to all of its island stores, on an indefinite basis. The move responds to the retailer’s goal of providing customers a flexible schedule that fits their needs.
A group of businesspeople, professionals and families of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent have come together to collaborate with the Ferries del Caribe Foundation to build 199 cement homes for underprivileged families living in subhuman conditions on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border, the company announced Monday.
For the second time in as many weeks, the Agriculture Department participated in the inauguration of a renewable energy project, this time at ornamental plant business Cali Nurseries in Barranquitas.
Puerto Rico imports a staggering 80 percent of all of the food that its nearly four million residents consume, a fact that compels thought and strategy on how to ensure there will be enough to go around now and in the future.
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Banco Popular, a subsidiary of Popular Inc., last week celebrated 50 years of service in New York, where it opened its first branch in the Bronx in November 1961. Today, Popular ranks 36th by assets among U.S. banks, the company said.
Less than 24 hours after the Telecommunications Regulatory Board made public a resolution and order that seemingly granted the cable television franchise license Puerto Rico Telephone (Claro) has been seeking since 2008, agency President Sandra Torres said Friday the decision is “null” because its content is radically different from what was discussed earlier this year.
Changes in federal regulations and the impact of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on the local banking industry will be discussed for the next two days during the fifth edition of the “Minority Depository Training Seminar” co-sponsored by the Puerto Rico Bankers Association and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Nearly three years after requesting it, Puerto Rico Telephone (Claro) has obtained its cable television franchise from the Telecommunications Regulatory Board, with which it will be able to launch Internet Protocol Television services islandwide.
Six months after the San Juan Superior Court placed National Insurance Corp. under trusteeship, employees were told Wednesday the operation has been sold to Venezuela’s Multinacional de Seguros C.A., News is my Business has learned.
San Juan metropolitan area cable provider OneLink Communications stepped up Wednesday in support of Choice Cable’s decision to file a complaint against Puerto Rico Telephone (Claro) for what it claims to be an illegal build-out of its Internet Protocol Television network.
In the wake of the success it has had since its arrival to the Puerto Rico market, retailer New Jersey-based Burlington is moving forward with expansion plans for 2012, with the opening of at least two new stores, high-ranking company officials confirmed Wednesday during a meeting with members of the local media.
Dorado Beach Resort and Club, a 72-hole premier destination resort in Puerto Rico, announced today that the East Course is open for play after undergoing a $6.2 million, 18-month renovation project of all 18 holes.
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