The Puerto Rico & U.S. Virgin Islands district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration honored José A. Irizarry, president of Centro Gomas del Oeste, with the 2013 Puerto Rico Small Business Person of the Year Award, during the closing ceremonies of Small Business Week on the island late last week.
San Juan's expanding gourmet coffee service sector suddenly got more interesting with the entry of a Utah-based franchise with an eye catching name, a world-class product, and big plans for Puerto Rico.
The INOVA Incubation Program in Caguas recently marked its fifth anniversary with the “graduation” of the first companies born there, which so far have created 200 direct and 400 indirect jobs. The program also celebrated the national recognition given to one of its resident companies by the National Business Incubation Association, a first for Puerto Rico.
A group of Puerto Rican entrepreneurs, motivated by the desire to solve their own project financing challenges, on Wednesday launched Antrocket.com, the first Hispanic crowdfunding platform.
Coordinating events such as conventions, meetings, workshops, and social activities, is part of any company or professional organization’s day-to-day. Generally speaking, companies earmark a portion of their budget to develop these activities, either to motivate employees and members or to introduce their services to prospective clients.
The U.S. Small Business Administration and the University of Puerto Rico Carolina Campus have signed a “Strategic Alliance Memorandum” to work together to strengthen and expand small business development on the island, SBA Deputy District Director María de los Ángeles de Jesús said Friday.
Puerto Rico Trade Company Executive Director Francisco Chévere and Small Business Administration Regional Director Jorge Silva Puras, signed a collaboration agreement to maximize the benefits of the services currently offered by both institutions and will help promote the growth and development of the small and medium-sized enterprises.
The U.S. Small Business Administration honored Dionisio Ortiz, president of Bayamón-based Corporate Development Solutions Inc., as “Minority Small Business Person of the Year” for the district of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Meineke Car Care Centers, an automobile repair retailer with more than 900 stores worldwide, has opened its first store in Puerto Rico, where plans call for opening three more over in five years, with an associated investment of some $800,000, News is my Business learned.
Less than a year after making its local debut with a store in Miramar, frozen yogurt chain FroyoWorld is expanding its operation with a second location in Hato Rey that will open today, company officials announced.
The upcoming corporate relocation of a leading convenience store chain to a long-shuttered Loíza Street building, from which it will also run a Quiznos Sub, offers further proof of the ongoing revitalization that is pumping considerable money and breathing renewed vigor into this well-known San Juan area unique for embracing all economic classes: from low-income and middle class to the rich.
The President Barack Obama administration announced Tuesday the start of the third round of the $26 million multi-agency “Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge” to foster innovation-fueled job creation through public-private partnerships.
The Puerto Rico office of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Puerto Rico Professional College of Engineers and Land Surveyors will cosponsor on May 8, the Annual Business Matchmaking Event both organizations have conducted jointly for the past eight years.
The U.S. Small Business Administration approved 264 loans in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands during the first six months of fiscal year 2012, a 13 percent increase over loans approved during the same period the previous year, the agency said Thursday.
Puerto Rico consumers have become increasingly accepting of gift cards and now, instead of fighting traffic and crowds to pick one up, they can shop for them online at www.regalatogo.com.
A gift is something that usually comes wrapped in colorful paper that more often than not gets ripped to shreds and thrown into the garbage. But what if those gifts could instead come swathed in colorful, luxurious scarves that could be reused and repurposed time and again?
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