Three months after announcing its decision to leave the island after 50 years of operations, Bumble Bee has hired San Diego-based Heritage Global Partners to auction off the assets of the former plant in Mayagüez, on Sept. 12 and 13. The sale will be conducted over the phone and online.
The Bumble Bee tuna cannery in Mayagüez will be closing its operation after 50 years of doing business in Puerto Rico, leaving about 260 people jobless, News is my Business learned.
The presidents of the Puerto Rico Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Overseas Press Club added their voices to the growing chorus of criticism against the measure the Mayagüez municipal government approved last week to monitor social media networks to track those expressing disapproval of his administration’s work.
Grupo Triple-S opened recently opened a new service center in Mayagüez that will allow the company to expand operations in the area and offer all products from its health, life and property business lines. The company invested $4 million in the new 8,200 square-foot facility located on PR-114 close to the Mayagüez Mall.
Eagle Industries is spreading its wings in Lares, with the addition of 300 new jobs through a planned expansion that will result in retaining the same number of workers at its Mayagüez operation, government and company officials said Monday.
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