Doral Mortgage announced Wednesday the launch of “Ruta d hogares,” a new educational program developed in alliance with various Puerto Rican municipalities to offer free educational workshops, along with financial consulting, options and help available for buying or refinancing a property.
Pharmaceutical company Actavis plc, based in Ireland, announced Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of Warner Chilcott plc in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.5 billion. Warner Chilcott has a plant in Fajardo.
The Church of God Mission Board, the first credit union to establish itself in Puerto Rico in more than a decade, opened recently in the northern town of Dorado, joining the prosperous cooperative movement.
The Puerto Rico CPA Society, in collaboration with the Economic Development Bank and Puerto Rico Trade and Export, will offer a three-hour seminar about the incentives program available with the approval of the Jobs Now Act.
Basing its assessment on Puerto Rico’s declining economy and population, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised Monday its outlook on Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp.'s (known as COFINA) first- and second-lien bonds to negative from stable.
Thousands of jobs, businesses and consumer pockets are being threatened by a new national tax included in the Tax Burden Redistribution and Adjustment Law, which the Marketing, Industry and Food Distribution Chamber warned Monday could have “devastating effects.”
The uproar for the new iPhone 5 has died down a bit, so we now sit back and take a calm look at how the new gadget — or rather, a retooled Apple smartphone — can help business folks be more productive in some practical ways.
Triple-S Management Corp. announced Monday the departure of Susan Rawlings-Molina, president and CEO of Socios Mayores en Salud Holdings Inc., the company's Medicare subsidiary, effective immediately.
Puerto Rico’s small and mid-sized businesses have a variety of possibilities for expansion in foreign markets that provide great potential to export their products and achieve greater economic strength and growth, although few have departments currently engaged in foreign trade.
Puerto Rico-based companies interested in benefiting from the government’s Green Energy Fund program will have from Oct. 1-5 to sign up and apply for financing online, José Maeso, executive director of the Energy Affairs Administration announced.
The Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture will be signing agreements with 24 farmers in the Arecibo region to assign funding that will generate $676,132 in economic activity, agency officials said.
Cooperativa Ganaderos de Res in Utuado has been selected to receive a $123,800 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a marketing plan, provide legal assistance and animal health and humane treatment training for its business.
Some 56 travel and tourism professionals, members and guests of Skål International Puerto Rico recently met at Dorado Beach, A Ritz-Carlton Reserve, when they welcomed Tom White, president of the Skål International USA, among several high-ranking industry representatives.
The Association of Labor Relations Professionals will be sponsoring its 5th Labor and Employment Law conference Oct. 2, focusing on a number of topics ranging from violence at work to retaliation.
Group business represents one-quarter of room nights booked at Puerto Rico’s top 10 largest meeting hotels, while the top market segments choosing the island for their meetings are corporate (41 percent), associations (34 percent) and social, military, educational, religious, fraternal organizations (25 percent), Milton Segarra, president of the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau said Wednesday.
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