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...“We said ‘whoa’,” recalls Carlos Pellas, president of Grupo Pellas, which as well as Flor de Caña spans 25 other businesses, including financial services, energy, healthcare and car dealerships, with operations...
...SABMiller is a large bottler for Coca-Cola, having last year enlarged the scale of its operations in southern Africa with the US soft drinks company....
...Elektra is buying Blockbuster México from Blockbuster LLC, a unit of satellite pay TV provider DISH Network. The Mexican operations were one of Blockbuster’s most profitable....
...In February, Bancolombia, the Andean country’s biggest individual bank, snapped up HSBC’s operations in Panama for $2.1bn....
...After Colombia’s Grupo Aval last week and Peru’s Graña y Montero earlier this week, it’s the turn of Volaris Aviation, the Mexican budget airline, to make its way to Wall Street on Thursday....
...Its IPO news came just days after Colombia’s Grupo Aval announced it, too, would list on NYSE....
...Barring a last-minute U-turn, Opec is set to keep its official production target unchanged at 30m barrels a day. http://on.ft.com/12QHf1t Colombia’s top bank heads to Wall St Colombia’s Grupo Aval is on...
...“[The telenovelas] are designed to make women feel secure as businesswomen,” says Svante Persson, senior operations specialist at MIF....
...Mr Pardo is chairman and majority shareholder of Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (Asur), which operates nine airports in southeast Mexico....
...Pay-TV operators are also on notice about the growth of Netflix and have launched their own online operations to increase their appeal to subscribers....
...Amid all the noise and smoke of battle over Grupo Pão de Açúcar’s attempted tie-up with Carrefour in Brazil, one thing is clear: the deal is going nowhere unless Casino – Carrefour’s arch rival and co-controller...
...The idea was to combine the Grupo Pão de Açúcar chain he jointly controls with the French Casino group with Carrefour’s Brazilian operations....
...Iberdrola sold a 6 per cent stake in itself to Qatar Holding in a move interpreted by some analysts as a defensive manoeuvre to add a large new investor to the company’s register as a counterbalance to Grupo...
...The bank has also sold stakes in Itau Unibanco, MasterCard, BlackRock and Grupo Financiero Santander....
...The deal gave InBev a 50 per cent stake in Grupo Modelo, Femsa’s top domestic rival....
...Anheuser’s other international operations are focused in Mexico, where it owns half the shares of Grupo Modelo, the brewer of Corona, and in China, where it has a 27 per cent in the Tsingtao brewery....
...Its international presence currently consists of its share of Grupo Modelo and a 27 per cent share in China’s Tsingtao....
...s major brewers including Heineken were lining up bids for Grupo Empresarial Bavaria, Colombia?s largest brewer....
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