A workgroup comprising public and private sector representatives handed Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla a report containing 34 recommendations Sunday to tackle Puerto Rico’s low labor participation rate, brain drain, the aging population and the underground economy.
The government of Puerto Rico plans to spend $750,000 over a 12 month-period starting in June to open and run commercial offices in Colombia and Perú — and launch a magazine to document its actions — to drum up business in Latin America and establish the island as the bridge between that region, Europe and the United States.
With a new Board of Directors and members, the Puerto Rico District Export Council outlined Wednesday its efforts to nurture and assist local businesses to achieve growth through exporting.
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Grupo Guayacán, a nonprofit that seeks to couple private equity investment with a series of programs aimed at developing, strengthening, and advancing Puerto Rico’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, announced over the weekend the start of its annual EnterPRize Business Building Competition.
Hundreds of business owners took part in the “Entrepreneurs First” workshop hosted by FirstBank and the autonomous municipality of Caguas Tuesday, at the Centro Criollo de Ciencia y Tecnología (C3TEC) to learn about how to reinvent their businesses, educate themselves and strengthen local industries.
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More than 100 Puerto Rican businesspeople recently participated in a forum exploring "Business opportunities between Puerto Rico and New York,” looking for ways to expand their operations beyond the island’s shores.
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, an association of more than 1,350 educational institutions, businesses, and other organizations in 85 countries and territories, announced Tuesday that five U.S. colleges, including University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, have earned accreditation in business.
Puerto Rican music superstar Ricky Martin will be honored during this year’s 12th annual “Poder Business Award” for his achievements in entertainment as well as his support of the worldwide fight against child exploitation, event director Nicolas Ibarguen said Wednesday.
Surprises abounded this fall when the 1,300-member Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association sponsored its first official mission to Cuba to learn about potential business opportunities there.
Distributor B. Fernández y Hermanos Inc. is marking 125 years of doing business in Puerto Rico, a history that dates to 1888 when three brothers — Bernardo, José and Constantino Fernández — acquired a “mom-and-pop” store in Old San Juan’s La Marina district and over the years turned it into the island’s seventh oldest business.
The economic challenges Puerto Rico has been facing for over a decade now (and the fact that during that time Latin America has experienced an historic growth in which many of us did not participate) remain the thorn in the side of local enterprises, which titanically still hold together much of our economy.
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