Posted by Toni Peters | May 3, 2012 | Economy
A survey by Colombia’s national statistics agency DANE has recorded sales totalling $117 billion during 2010 and 2009 in the country’s commercial sector. A total of 115,890 firms were represented in the survey....
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | May 3, 2012 | Economy
Colombian textile company, Fabricato, reported million dollar losses in the first quarter of 2012. Fabricato lost $5.6 million in the first three months of 2012. The losses take the company back into the red following profits of...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | May 2, 2012 | Economy
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Tuesday that over 1.5 million jobs have been created in the last 20 months, according to a statement on the presidential website. In the statement, President Santos said,...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | May 2, 2012 | Economy
Colombia’s Workers’ Confederation (CUT) has chosen a new president after ousting the previous leader, Colombian media reported Tuesday. The previous president Tarcisio Mora, who had been in office for four years,...
Read MorePosted by Toni Peters | Apr 27, 2012 | News
Thirty docking companies in Colombia’s Pacific port of Buenaventura were fined over $170,000 by the Ministry of Labor for violating workers’ rights, Colombian media reported Friday. An inspection found that the...
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