Caterpillar Inc. announced Wednesday it has selected Puerto Rico-based Rimco to be the Cat equipment dealer for Cuba. Currently, Rimco serves as the Cat dealer for Puerto Rico and the Eastern Caribbean.
Puerto Rico retail sales for the month of October 2015 — the most recent available from the government — showed a 3 percent drop in comparison to the same month in 2014, to $3.1 billion.
The tenth edition of Grupo Guayacán’s business competition, EnterPRize, kicked off with the participation of this year’s 25 semi-finalists in a series of workshops that are part of its educational curriculum.
M. Holland Co., a distributor of thermoplastic resins, announced Tuesday it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Able International Corp. and Tril Export Corp., both headquartered in San Juan.
As part of its social responsibility campaign “Navega con seguridad,” Liberty Puerto Rico celebrated “Safer Internet Day 2016” on the island on Tuesday for the ninth year in a row.
Carey International, Inc., a provider of chauffeured service solutions, customer-centric travel technology, and ground transportation logistics management, has renewed its Carey franchise agreement in Puerto Rico, the company announced Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program is accepting applications for funding under its Renewable Energy for America Program through May 2, 2016, José Otero-García, the agency’s state director for Puerto Rico, said Tuesday.
The switch-over from a B2B IVU to a B2B IVA should not raise consumer prices nor costs to business, according to Economist Vicente Feliciano, president of Advantage Business Consulting.
The San Sebastián Festival is always one of the best of the year, representing the culmination of the holiday celebration in Puerto Rico. This year proved to be even more special for another reason: more than 83,059 pounds of material was source-separated and recycled at the festival in Old San Juan.
Seaborne Airlines and the Puerto Rico Infrastructure Financing Authority announced Monday they have entered into an agreement to install Seaborne' s corporate logo on the 23rd floor of the exterior frontal façade of the iconic World Plaza Building in Hato Rey.
On April 1, Puerto Rico will adopt a Value Added Tax (VAT) system and the island's advertising industry will fall in line with other business sectors in paying a tax for services from which it was temporarily exempted.
Since going into effect last October, the Sales & Use Tax (SUT) on business-to-business (B2B) services has generated $26.4 million, the Puerto Rico Treasury Department reported.
Auction.com, a Ten-X company, announced Thursday the upcoming online auction of more than 100 bank-owned residential properties in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico began 2016 with 716 bankruptcy filings in January, representing a 3 percent year-over-year jump, statistics released Thursday by analyst firm Boletín de Puerto Rico show.
“Millennials,” or those people born between 1980 and 2000, represent 22 percent of Puerto Rico’s population, and represents a generation of togetherness with family, with friends, collaborating with teams to study and work.
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