The program directly served businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through a grant from Wells Fargo. #NewsismyBusiness
The program offers training and support for eastern Puerto Rico small and medium-sized businesses in sustainable tourism, gastronomy and local production. #NewsismyBusiness
The bank-sponsored location is at Plaza Las Américas and will house eight small local businesses that will sell their products there for two weeks.
Throughout the month of November, culminating in Giving Tuesday, nonprofit organizations around the world call on the general population and corporations to donate to the sector.
More than 600 entrepreneurs and business owners have informed of their damages on the platform.
To qualify, the SMEs must have generated $1.5 million or less in recent tax years, regardless of the number of employees on their payroll.
Liberty Puerto Rico’s business division also launched a new website and media campaign.
The pandemic devasted small- and medium-sized businesses across the United States, and those in Puerto Rico were no exception. For instance, the Puerto Rican restaurant industry alone lost $398 million in sales during 2020. Even with lockdowns and restrictions now lifting, many businesses are still feeling the financial ripple effects of closures and diminished revenues, […]
SPONSORED POST Popular announced today the launch of a new digital platform where small business owners can apply for loans and lines of credit in an agile and convenient way. The platform includes an innovative, secure system designed so that customers can manage and check the status of their application online at any time, simplifying […]
There is a popular song in the Caribbean written by King Obstinate titled: “How Will Santa Get Here?” The proposed solution? “There is no reindeer in my country. He’ll have to borrow de neighbor’s donkey.” These themes of getting creative and leveraging community resources are the perfect segue for our article. The people of the […]
MCS recently launched its “There’s an MCS health plan for everyone” campaign that highlights all the products the company offers for individuals and small businesses. With direct and group health plans, MCS has a variety of options for students, employees without health plan benefits, self-employed professionals, and specific plans for small and medium-sized businesses. MCS […]
Puerto Rico-based e-3 Consulting — a firm dedicated to helping small and medium business owners manage their warehouses, as well as their financial services by implementing technology — unveiled Allec, an online system to help that segment keep track of those operational aspects. The system required a $300,000 investment to develop and launch, said Alberto […]
Owners of small and medium-sized businesses in Puerto Rico that were affected by Hurricanes Irma and María in 2017 may continue applying for help available through the Small Business Financing Program, under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. Puerto Rico Housing Department Secretary William Rodriguez, said so far, the program has disbursed $24.5 million […]
Puerto Rico’s small- and mid-sized businesses (SME’s) looking to grow their operations may be eligible for as much as $100,000 in seed funding from a number of programs under the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC, in Spanish). During a roundtable discussion to mark small business month, the agency brought together five companies — […]
The Puerto Rico Federal Contracting Center (FeCC) under the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC, in Spanish) will host a virtual workshop titled “How to sell products and services to Ft. Buchanan,” the first in a series of Federal Matchmaking 2021 events. The series is a cycle of business roundtables and workshops that seek […]
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