Haiti’s apparel sector has just got a shot in the arm. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has decided to invest $4 million to help The Willbes Haitian S.A., a subsidiary of South Korea-based ...
Tags: apparel manufacture, IFC, knits, sweaters, woven products, microfibers
Haiti’s centre for the facilitation of investments (CFI) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the association of industries in Haiti (ADIH) to strengthen textile investments in Haiti. Backed by the Inter-American ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Haiti
PepsiCo, Inc. today announced plans to invest $5 billion in Mexico over the next five years. The investment is designed to further strengthen PepsiCo's food and beverage business in Mexico, one of the most attractive markets in Latin ...
Tags: PepsiCo, Food, PepsiCo's investment
Coca-Cola has partnered with DEKA R&D, IBM, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), McCann Health, NRG Energy, Qualcomm Technologies and UPS to supply water purification kiosk EKOCENTER to 20 nations by the end of 2015. Coca-Cola stated ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, Safe Drinking Water
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced the approval of a loan of up to $4 million to help Willbes HA, a subsidiary of The Willbes & Co Ltd, headquartered in Cheonan, Republic of Korea, to expand its existing ready-made garment ...
Tags: IDB, garment sector, garment
Railway Gazette The Inter-American Development Bank announced on December 5 that it had approved a USD 200 million loan to fund construction of Quito's first metro line,due to be completed in 2016. The mass transit system is expected to ...
Tags: loan, Metro, Inter-American Development Bank
Under the headline Water and Innovation,Solutions for Development The German Experience a delegation from German Water Partnership deepened the expert dialogue that had started in an earlier visit in 2011. Dieter Ernst,Board Member of ...
Tags: German, water partnership, paradigm shift, water quality measurement