London based Specialty Lines broker R K Harrison Insurance Brokers and Chile's Conosur Corredores de Seguros Y Reaseguros (Conosur) have inked an agreement to collaborate on all new insurance and reinsurance business that emerge from Chile. ...
Tags: R K Harrison Insurance, Conosur, international insurance markets
Carrefour announces the signing of an agreement with the Chilean group Cencosud for the sale of its operations in Colombia for an enterprise value of € 2.0 billion. This transaction is in line with Carrefour's new strategy of focusing ...
Tags: Colombia, Cencosud, leading position
Reuters reported that Chilean manufacturing production surged in October beating expectations and posting its biggest annual gain in 2012 on the back of extra working days and a pick up in already buoyant domestic demand. The government ...
Tags: manufacturing production, domestic demand, world No.1 copper producer
Chile’s peso weakened as copper declined on concern US authorities have made little progress in talks to avoid automatic tax increases and spending cuts. The currency depreciated 0.1% to 481 per US dollar at the close in ...
Tags: copper market, Chilean peso, fiscal cliff
Chile's peso gained for the first time in three days as China pledged to keep macroeconomic policies stable and copper, the South American nation's biggest export earner climbed to 6 week high. The official said that China, the Andean ...
Tags: copper market, company from china, china import, copper scrap
Reuters reported that Chilean miner Antofagasta Minerals has submitted its USD 600 million Oxidos Encuentro copper project for environmental approval in Chile. The London listed miner hopes the project, in the Centinela Mining District in ...
Tags: environmental approval, miner, copper cathodes, ore grades
Chilean retail giant Cencosud has booked an increase in earnings for the third quarter of the year. Net profit in the three months to the end of September grew 20% to CLP66.9bn (US$139.4m), the company reported today (20 November). The ...
The countdown to SIAL 2012, one of the largest trade events in the food industry calendar continues. And as it does so, the just-food diary brings you more news of what to expect from a range of exhibitors laying out their wares this year ...
Tags: food industry, agricultural products, food manufacturers
Chilean retailer Cencosud has set the price at which shares in the company will begin trading in New York. The company is offering a mix of shares and American Depository Shares as it looks to raise funds for expansion, to pay down debt ...
Barry Callebaut has signed a deal for the supply of compound and chocolate products to Argentine confectioner Arcor-Dos en Uno in South America. The outsourcing agreement, announced today (23 October), will involve an investment of EUR13m ...
Tags: chocolate products, outsourcing agreement, Chilean market
The Chilean government and CAP finally had settled the agreement of its Punta Alcalde power plant. Under the agreement, CAP has to reduce emissions from its pellet plant at Huasco which is close to the power plant. In fact, CAP ...
Copper supply shortages will extend into the first half of next year as an accelerating Chinese economy more than doubles the pace of growth in global consumption even as mines extract a record amount of metal. According to the ...
Tags: copper, supply shortage, metal, mines extract, slowing growth
Principal Financial has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Chile's AFP Cuprum for $1.51bn, in an effort to widen its presence in emerging markets. The deal involves sale of 63% ownership in Cuprum held by Empresas Penta and ...
Tags: Principal Financial, Chile's AFP Cuprum, publicly traded shares
Swiss chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut has signed a long-term sourcing agreement with Industria de Alimentos dos en Uno, a subsidiary of Argentinian food firm Arcor. Under the terms of the agreement, Barry Callebaut will supply ...
Scania has been awarded a contract to supply 231 K 230 4X2 city buses to the Chilean capital Santiago’s Transantiago transport system. The sale will facilitate Scania to start its operations in the Transantiago, linking bus lines ...
Tags: Scania, city buses, Transantiago