Sports Authority, one of the largest full-line sporting goods retailers in the United States, announced Monday it will be hiring department managers for the company’s two newest locations in Plaza Las Américas and Plaza Carolina, which are set to open in early April 2014.
Crowley Maritime Corporation’s Caribbean logistics unit has recently been granted reclassification of its Puerto Rico warehousing and distribution center to Foreign Trade Zone status.
Puerto Rico Trade and Export Co. Executive Director Francisco Chévere recently met with representatives from several federal agencies in Washington, D.C. to secure technical assistance to boost exports of local goods and services, the agency announced.
The Puerto Rico Consumer Affairs Department is unveiling today its new 3-1-1 consumer orientation service, through which citizens will be able to call to get general information about their rights as consumers, as well as on the complaint filing process, agency Secretary Nery Adames said. Through the hotline, consumers will also have access to details […]
Seaborne Airlines last week debuted its new service from San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport to La Romana International Airport the Dominican Republic.
Under current economic conditions, Puerto Rico’s nonprofits must be able to measure the results of their efforts to justify their work effectively to their donors and society in general.
Puerto Rico’s declining population, rapidly aging workforce, significant fiscal pressures and subsequent policy measures have combined to prompt a reduction in the government’s workforce over the past five years by as many as 55,000 jobs, or almost 20 percent of the public sector’s workforce.
Puerto Rico car sales showed a slight improvement last month, when 8,906 vehicles were sold on the island, representing a 1.7 percent year-over-year increase, said the United Automobile Importers Group (known as GUIA for its initials in Spanish), an organization that represents the local automotive industry.
Puerto Rico’s “millennials,” the segment of the population comprising 18 to 30 year-olds, believe that financial education is a very important factor in achieving personal financial stability, a recent MasterCard study on basic financial knowledge revealed.
Focused on making a better future for themselves and their loved ones, a group of Subway employees are today's most recent entrepreneurs thanks to their joint effort to create the "Sandwich Artists with Ambitions" initiative.
The Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico was recenlty chosen to host Honeywell Day, when company representatives from the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico visited the school and conducted several lectures on engineering and technology, as well as issues related to the needs and opportunities in the industry.
Following the successful completion of the implementation of sales process and service coordination systems at HIMA San Pablo to enable the hospital group enter the field of medical tourism, technology firm Fusionworks has expanded its own portfolio to assist other hospital groups do the same.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with Bayer CropScience LP, a company that operates a research facility and nursery in Sabana Grande, to correct violations of federal regulations governing the use of pesticides on farms, the agency announced Thursday.
Puerto Rico Treasury Secretary Melba Acosta announced Thursday that revenues for the first five months of fiscal year 2014 exceeded collections for the same period of fiscal year 2013 by $335 million, or 12.4 percent.
Almost exactly a year to the day when Moody’s Investors Service cut Puerto Rico’s credit to Baa3, the New York-based agency placed the island’s general obligation rating on review for downgrade.
A Dow Jones/Factiva content provider since 2014
Subscribe to our Dollars & Sense podcast!
NIMB ON SOCIAL MEDIA