By 2030, more than 2 billion Asian consumers are expected to join the global middle class. In 15 years, the Asian market is projected to be six times larger than the U.S. market.
Puma Energy, the globally integrated midstream and downstream energy company, recently announced the acquisition of 100 percent of the shares of Save Combustibles, SAS, the purchase includes all its assets, sales and distribution facilities.
Just as Puerto Rico businesses are starting to feel the pinch of a slowdown in merchandise imports in the wake of Horizon Lines’ exit from the market, maritime shipper Crowley announced Thursday the addition of a new flat-deck barge capable of carrying up to 400 loads.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday it has allotted $27 million to Puerto Rico to help finance improvements to water projects that are essential to protecting public health and the environment.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s San Juan Office of Field Operations announced Thursday the enforcement of a federal quarantine order suspending imports of fruit and vegetables identified to be hosts of the Mediterranean fruit fly, known as “Medfly,” coming from the Dominican Republic.
Global biopharmaceutical company AbbVie announced Wednesday the expansion of its Barceloneta plant, at a cost of $30 million, to add to Puerto Rico’s capabilities as a manufacturing destination for biotechnology.
A study released Wednesday by the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico on current conditions the island’s elderly population is facing revealed that 40 percent of seniors 65 and older have incomes that place them at the level of extreme poverty.
After grabbing roughly 100 percent of the industry’s postpaid phone growth in 2014, T-Mobile is now taking its surging revolt against what it calls “broken” U.S. wireless practices to a new front.
The 8th edition of the Saborea Puerto Rico culinary event will feature some of the island’s top chefs, along with several Food Network personalities, who will gather in San Juan April 9-12, Puerto Rico Hotel and Tourism Association President Clarisa Jiménez announced Tuesday.
With a $1.2 million investment, Blue Martini Lounge will open its first location in Puerto Rico at the up-and-coming Paseo Caribe complex in San Juan.
The Corporation for the Supervision and Insurance of Puerto Rico Cooperatives, known as COSSEC in Spanish, is moving forward in striking up talks with Cuban counterparts, to ultimately set off diplomatic relations between both islands, and other Caribbean jurisdictions.
The University of Puerto Rico in Aguadilla announced Tuesday it will be offering free help to low and middle-class residents to fill their federal income tax return, Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the campus library through April 11.
FirstBank donated $10,000 to Madre Tierra Atabey, to sponsor the “Brain Challenge” program, whose mission is to promote environmental protection among the student population.
The Sales and Marketing Executives Association announced Tuesday the upcoming celebration of the 14th edition of its Digital Forum, this year under the “Playing the Social Game” theme.
The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute announced Monday plans to use a new method to collect information on households to measure unemployment in Puerto Rico.
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