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Banrisul
Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul S.A. (Banrisul), the state bank of Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul, offers a range of financial products and services, including personal loans and mortgages, long-term financing, business lines of cre, de and cre cards and savings depos. As of December 2014, Banrisul operated 538 branches in Brazil. In 2014 the bank formed a partnership h insurance and private pension group Icatu Seguros. It aims to consolidate Banrisul as a key insurance provider in Rio Grande do Sul state and Brazil’s southern region. The Porto Alegre-based bank was founded in 1928 and is controlled by the Rio Grande do Sul state government.
Banco Mercantil Universal
Mercantil Banco Universal is a full-service bank founded in 1925 and headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela. It offers a comprehensive range of banking and financial products and services, including depo products (such as restricted, demand and time depos, and checking and savings accounts); cre products (including letters of cre, cre cards and commercial, agricultural, car, and construction loans) and investment secuies. It also provides cre cards, foreign trade services, factoring, financial lease contracts and financial intermediation services. The bank has a network of 266 offices nationwide, 1,408 ATMs and 53,387 sales points to serves customers. Internationally, Mercantil Banco Universal has representative offices in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Brazil and the US.
Banco de Bogotá
Banco de Bogotá S.A., Colombia’s second biggest bank in terms of assets, provides a range of banking and financial products and services to a broad customer base. The company’s business is structured into five segments: personal banking, SME banking, corporate banking, preferential banking and microfinance services. Personal banking services and products comprise saving and checking accounts, de and cre cards, fixed-term depos, and consumer and commercial loans, among others. The bank also offers a range of corporate banking services and products, including liquiy and investment solutions, financing solutions (working caal, development loans, and bank guarantees), foreign trade, leasing, investment products, and trusteeship services. Banco de Bogotá has a global network comprised of a number of domestic and overseas subsidiaries and branch offices. Local subsidiaries include investment bank Corficolombiana, bonded warehouse Almaviva, trust fund u Fiduciaria Bogotá and Leasing Bogotá. In adion, the company has overseas agencies in New York and Miami, and owns subsidiaries in Panama, The Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. The bank forms part of Colombia’s largest financial holding, Grupo Aval, which also owns Banco Popular, Banco de Occidente and Banco AV Villas.
Credicorp Secuies
Private company Credicorp Secuies offers services covering stock intermediation and finances to individuals and companies through investment management accounts and brokerage. Credicorp Secuies is part of Credicorp Bank.
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Colbún
Colbún S.A. is a Chilean generator that owns and operates 15 hydro power plants, 7 thermo plants, 17 substations and 892km of transmission lines in four regions. The company is the second largest generator in terms of installed capay on the SIC grid. Of the company’s 3.278GW total installed capay, thermo and hydro account for 52% and 48%, respectively. Generation increased as a whole in 2014 due to the start-up of the 316MW Angostura hydro plant. Colbún is controlled by Grupo Matte through subsidiary Minera Valparaíso S.A.
UTE
Uruguay’s state-run power firm Administración Nacional de Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas (UTE) is engaged in the generation, distribution and sale of electric power. The firm owns thermal, hydro and wind generation assets h a total installed capay of 1,791MW. It also operates a 4,445km transmission network and a 80,500km distribution network. The 140MW Pampa wind farm, set to become the country’s largest park, was designed by UTE, which will operate the wind farm and purchases output through a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) upon completion. The Montevideo-based company was founded in 1912.
Tractebel Energia
Brazil’s Tractebel Energia, a subsidiary of multinational GDF Suez, is the country’s largest private power generator. In adion to the sale of electriy, the company provides energy-related services such as installation of cogeneration equipment, operation and maintenance of energy production equipment, and power quay mooring. Tractebel is headquartered in Florianópolis in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.
Enersis
Enersis S.A. is a Chilean power holding company h direct and indirect stakes in power generation, transmission and distribution assets. The company also engages in gas transportation and distribution. The company has operations in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru, as well as in Chile. Its generation faciies have over 16,000MW in installed capay, a business line developed throughs subsidiary Endesa Chile. It supplies power to around 14mn customers throughs distribution companies, including Edesur (Argentina), Ampla and Coelce (owned by Endesa Brasil), Chilectra (Chile), Codensa (Colombia) and Edelnor (Perú). The power transmission business is carried out through the Argentina-Brazil interconnection line, CIEN. Enersis is controlled by Spanish multinational corporation Endesa, which is in turn controlled by Italian power giant Enel. The company was incorporated in 1981 as Compañía Chilena Metropoana de Distribución Eléctrica S.A. and adopteds current name in 1988. A planned restructuring of Enersis could be subted to shareholders for approval by end-2015 and completed by the third quarter of 2016. The move will separate the Chile business – comprising power generator Endesa Chile and distributor Chilectra – from Endesa and Chilectra-controlled subsidiaries in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Brazil, according to Enel. The new Chile u will be called Enersis Chile, while the Latin American u – comprising generation, transmission and distribution firms – will be called Enersis Americas.
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Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a South Korean multinational conglomerate providing semiconductor, telecom and dial convergence technology, and employing more than 200,000 workers in around of 60 countries. The company is also a producer of memory chips, TFT-LCDs, CDMA mobile phones, moors and VCRs. The group consists of four main business us: dial media network, device solution network, telecommunication network and dial appliance network businesses. Samsung has regional subsidiaries in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Chile and Colombia.
EMC
EMC Corp. is a US storage and IT infrastructure solutions supplier enabling businesses and service providers to deliver information technology as a service (ITaaS). Throughs products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their information. The company operates RD centers in Brazil, China, France, India, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore and the US, and has manufacturing faciies in the US and Ireland. EMC is represented by some 400 sales offices in 86 countries around the world, including Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
LG
LG Electronics Inc. was established in 1958 and is focused on electronics, information and communications products. The company comprises four main business segments: mobile communications, dial appliance, dial display and dial media. It is headquartered in Seoul, Korea and has subsidiaries in 49 countries around the world, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Colombia.
Epicor
US business software solutions provider Epicor Software is engaged in the design, development, marketing, and support of enterprise application software solutions for use by mid-sized companies, as well as the divisions and subsidiaries of corporations worldwide. It provides enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software solutions to markets such as manufacturing, supply chain, distribution, and financial accounting, as well as front office customer relationship management applications for sales, marketing, and customer service and support. It also offers professional, consulting, training, and support services. In Latin America, Epicor has offices in Mexico, in Monterrey and Mexico y, from where servess customers across the region.
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Sacyr
Spain’s Sacyr, formerly Sacyr Vallehermoso, is a diversified group engaged in construction, property development, concessions and services. It mainly focuses on contracting, managing, and executing of public and private works projects, including transport infrastructures (freeways, highways and roads), waterworks, railroads, ports, construction works, airport infrastructure and environmental works. In Latin America, the group is active in Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico, where the company has been awarded h contracts for the construction of two stretches of line No. 3 of the Guadalajara light train, in Mexico; the rehabiation and improvement of the Cochabamba-Cutervo-Santo Domingo de Capilla-Chiple tranche of a highway in Peru; and the São Francisco River integration project in Brazil. Its concession area, led by Sacyr Concesiones, includes six tollroad operations and one hosal in Chile, and one highway in Peru. The Spanish firm is also part of consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), the contractor responsible for the design and construction of the Panama Canal’s third set of locks, the main project of the waterway’s major expansion. The group’s industrial u is engaged in projects of power generation, waste treatment plants, oil and gas, and electrical installations; whiles service u operates through Valoriza Gestión in the development of environmental and multi-services operations.
CCR AutoBAn
Brazil’s AutoBAn is a highway concessionaire controlled by local tollroad operator CCR, which serves the construction, transport and toll roads sectors. In 1998, the company was awarded a 28-year concession to operate the São Paulo’s Anhangüera-Bandeirantes highway system, comprising Anhangüera (SP 330), Bandeirantes (SP 348), Dom Gabriel Paulino Bueno Couto (SP 300) and road interconnection Adalberto Panzan (SPI 102/330), totaling 316.75km. AutoBAn was founded in 1998 and is based in Jundiaí in Brazil’s São Paulo state.
AGSA
Andrade Gutierrez S.A. is a Brazilian industrial group operating in the electric power, oil and gas, industrial projects, infrastructure works, urban mobiy, saation and telecom sectors. It is involved in the engineering and construction of projects such as subways, railways, airports, irrigation, highways, bridges, refineries, ports, pipelines, oil wells, shipyards, mining and steel mills, and hydropower, nuclear and thermal plants. The company also generates and distributes power through 65 hydro, three thermal and four wind farms; operates energy transmission and distribution lines comprising a 510,000km grid, and operates 1.3Bm3 of natural gas pipelines. In adion, offers fixed and mobile telephony services, internet and cable TV. It is active throughout Latin America, including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. In 2015 Andrade Gutierrez and Alstom launched an industrial JV dedicated to the production of steel towers for wind turbines, Torres Eólicas do Nordeste S.A. The u is located in Jacobina, Bahia, and is 51% owned by Andrade Gutierrez and 49% by Alstom.
Cemex México
Mexico’s Cemex is a global producer of cement and ready-mix concrete. It is the world’s largest building materials supplier and third largest cement producer. In adion, is Mexico’s largest cement producer. Althoughs global actiies are centered in North America and Europe, also operates production faciies in South America, the Middle East and Asia. The firm currently operates on four continents, h 62 cement plants, 1997 ready-mix plants, 376 aggregates quarries, 223 land distribution centers and 71 marine terminals. Cemex’s main cement production faciies in the region are located in Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. In 2015, the cement giant created Cemex Energía, an energy division seeking to develop a portfolio of 10 renewable energy projects in Mexico. The u plans to generate 1,000MW over the next five years. Founded in 1906, the company is based in Monterrey, Mexico.
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Munich Re
Germany’s Münchener Rückversicherungs Gesellschaft AG (Munich Re) is one of the largest reinsurers in the world. Founded in 1880, the company basess integrated business model on three pillars: reinsurance, primary insurance and health. In 2000 set out to offers clients more than classic reinsurance and became a provider of solutions for the insurance industry’s entire value chain. Munich Re has had a representative office in São Paulo for the past 10 years. In Latin America, the reinsurer also has operations in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela.
Validus
Bermuda-based Validus Holdings Ltd. is a global provider of short tail lines of reinsurance, including property catastrophe, property pro-rata and property per risk, marine and energy, and other specialty lines. The company has presence in Latin America and the Caribbean through Validus Reaseguros Inc., based in Miami, and Validus Reaseguros S.A., located in Santiago, Chile.
GNP
Mexico’s Grupo Nacional Provincial (GNP), one of the country’s largest insurance groups, boasts leading poions in the accidents and health insurance segments. The group’s services and products are structured in six areas: life insurance, medical insurance, car insurance, home insurance, business insurance and basic insurance. GNP is controlled by Grupo BAL, a privately held group of Mexican companies. The group was founded in 1901 and is based in Mexico y, Mexico.
Aegon
AEGON is a Dutch life insurance and pension company. It has a presence in the Americas, h offices in Mexico and Brazil. In May 2009, the company announced that has completeds acquiion of a 50% interest in Mongeral S.A. Seguros e Previdência, in Brazil (Mongeral Aegon Seguros e Previdência, currently).
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Aluar
Argentine company Aluar is the country’s sole primary aluminum producer. Majoy-owned by the Madanes Quintanilla family,s actiies range from quenching aluminum from the liquid state to producing manufactured products for the transportation, packaging, construction, electriy, medicine and water treatment industries. Aluar has various industrial us: a primary aluminum manufacturing faciy and two semi-finished products plants in Puerto Madryn (Chabut province), and a rolling mill/ extrusion plant in Abasto (Buenos Aires province). Aluar was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Buenoa Aires, Argentina.
MMX
MMX Mineracao e Metalicos (MMX) is a Brazilian iron ore miner engaged in the extraction, processing, transformation and sale of iron ore. In 2012, MMX was granted environmental and operational licenses authorizing the start of construction works for the expansion of the Serra Azul iron ore complex, part ofs Sudeste system. Serra Azul currently produces 8.7Mt/y of iron ore. The licenses allow MMX to build a new processing plant h a 29Mt/y capay. To export the iron ore, MMX is also developing the Sudeste port in Rio de Janeiro state. MMX, controlled by Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista’s EBX group, was founded in 2005 and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Usiminas
Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais S.A. (Usiminas) is a Brazilian manufacturer of flat rolled steel, hot and cold rolled steel and coil, raw and crude steel, pig iron, heavy plates, galvanized sheets and slabs for the automobile, line pipe, civil construction, and electrical equipment manufacturing industries. Usiminas is the largest integrated flat steelmaker in Latin America, h a nominal production capay of 9.5Mt/y. It has two plants – in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais state, and Cubatão, São Paulo – as well as sales and distribution offices across the country. The Belo Horizonte-based company started operations in 1962 and is controlled by Luxembourg-based Ternium.
Arcelortal
Luxembourg-based Arcelortal S.A. is the world’s largest steelmaker, as well as a producer of carbon steel (coated steel, hot rolled steel and cold rolled steel), long carbon steel (profiles, steel pylons and rails) and stainless steel for the construction, packaging and automotive industries and electrical applications. In Latin America has operations in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Mineros
Mineros develops alluvial and underground operations in the Colombian municipaies of El Bagre, Zaragoza, Nechí and Bajo Cauca Antioqueño, in Antioquia department. Vias subsidiary Exploradora Minera, the firm has exploration targets in departments Antioquia, Caldas, Tolima and Bolívar. In late 2014, the company signed an option agreement to sells El Porvenir gold-silver property to Vancouver-based firm Angel Gold. This property covers 5,945 hectares hin the Segovia-Remedios gold belt. Mineros has a presence in Nicaragua after acquiring a 90% stake in Hemco Nicaragua in 2013, a local company that owns the Bonanza gold-silver mine in the north of the country and is also engaged in forestry and hydroelectric power generation actiies. Founded in 1974, Mineros has corporate offices in Medellín and an operation center in El Bagre. The company is controlled by Colombian financial group Colpatria.
Comibol
Bolivian state miner Comibol manages the state’s interests in mining concessions and metallurgical and industrial plants through joint ventures, lease and/or service agreements h private enies. It is not a mine operator. Comibol currently has 18 projects related to exploration, prospecting and mine development, including the carrying out of hium exploration work in the Uyuni salt flat. Located in the Bolivian high plains at 3,600m above sea level, the salt flat has a total surface area of around 10,000km2 and contains hium, boron, magnesium, sodium, calcium and other minerals. In 2015, Comibol secured a US$622mn loan from the Bolivian Central Bank. The funds will go toward building an industrial-scale hium processing plant ats Uyuni salt flats, as part of the second stage ofs national hium development project. The company also owns the Karachipampa silver-lead smelter, which started production in September, 2014. Comibol took over the plant in 2011 after ending a joint venture h Atlas Precious Metals. The faciy has a combined capay of 51,000t/y silver-lead and in 2015 started to export part ofs production. Comibol was formed in 1952 and is based in La Paz, Bolivia.
Almaden Minerals
Almaden Minerals Ltd. is a Canadian exploration company specializing in the generation of new mineral prospects. The company currently has more than 40 properties ins portfolio at various stages of exploration and development. Its current focus is the Ixtaca gold-silver depo in Mexico’s Puebla state, which the miner discovered in 2010 and is currently advancing toward a pre-feasibiy study. A PEA puts mine life at 12.1 years, h an average annual production of 130,000oz of gold and 7.80Moz of silver overs mine life. Almaden’s other assets include the El Pulpo copper-gold-molybdenum property and the Tropico platinum-palladium-copper property, both in Mexico. Almaden was formed out of the amalgamation of Almaden Resources Corp. and Fairfield Minerals Ltd., finalized in 2002.
Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. is a US-based company that manufactures mining and construction equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The company operates through three business lines: resource industries, construction industries, energy transportation and financial products. Its product line includes more than 300 machines, engines, power generators, OEM solutions, and used equipment. Caterpillar is active worldwide and has a regional presence in Brazil and Mexico.
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Refap
Brazil’s Alberto Pasqualini-Refap S.A. refinery, located in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul state, came online in 1968. Refap currently has an installed capay of 200,000b/d of oil. Its production consists mainly of diesel and gasoline, in adion to petrochemical naphtha, propylene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel, fuel oil and asphalt. The refinery operates as a subsidiary of Brazilian state-run energy major Petrobras. In 2014, Refap increased diesel production by 12,000b/d. The expansion followed the startup of a new diesel hydrotreater u that will also cut carbon emissions. The faciy, the second ofs type at Refap, will produce low-sulfur S-10 diesel for consumers in the state.
Pemex
Mexico’s state oil company Pemex is engaged in the exploration, production, transportation, refining, storage and sale of hydrocarbons and derivatives. Its products include petrochemicals, natural gas, liquid gas, sulphur, gasoline, kerosene and diesel. According to the company, Pemex operates 454 production fields; more than 9,000 production wells; 254 offshore platforms; six refineries; eight petrochemical complexes; over 7,000km of gas pipelines; more than 4,700km of oil pipelines; and 19 LPG distribution terminals. It also operates more than 10,400 service stations throughout the country. As a result of Mexico’s energy reforms, Pemex restructureds operations and formed new subsidiaries. Four of the company’s us were transformed into two productive subsidiaries: an EP u (formerly Pemex Exploración y Producción) and an industrial transformation u (formerly Pemex Petroquímica, Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica, and Pemex Refinación). In adion, five non-core subsidiaries were also approved to cover the segments of drilling and services, logistics, cogeneration and services, and fertilizers and ethylene. The company was founded in 1938 and is based in Mexico y, Mexico.
Keppel
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore Marine Ltd. is a provider of a wide range of shipping services, including design, shipbuilding, repair, and conversion, for the offshore and marine industry. It has a strategic network of 20 yards serving regions including Asia Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Caspian Sea, Middle East and the North Sea. Its operations are divided into two divisions:s offshore division is led by Keppel FELS, a designer, builder and repairer of mobile offshore rigs, particularly jackups and semisubmersibles; ands marine division is represented by Keppel Shipyard, a company engaged in the repair, conversion and upgrading of a diverse range of vessels. The firm’s Keppel Singmarine is a specialized shipbuilding company h a track record of more than 400 new buildings. The company is controlled by multinational firm Keppel Corp.
Gaspetro
Petrobras Gas (Gaspetro), the gas subsidiary of Brazilian federal energy company Petrobras, was created to undertake all gas-related actiies: provision of services, transport, marketing, storage and processing of natural gas and LNG. It is also involved in power generation and operates telecommunications services for Petrobras through two specialized subsidiaries. The company is based in Rio de Janeiro.
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Lanxess
Lanxess is a German specialty chemicals company whose core business comprises the development, manufacture and sale of plastics, rubber, specialty chemicals and intermediates. The company currently has around 52 es in 29 countries and more than 16,000 employees. In Latin America, the company has subsidiaries in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay. In Brazil, the company has faciies to produce performance polymers whiles performance chemical segment has production es in Argentina and Brazil. In the latter country, Lanxess opened in 2014 a new compounding plant in Porto Feliz, to meet demand for high-tech plastics used in the automotive sector. Based in Cologne, Lanxess was founded in 2004 when Bayer AG spun offs chemicals operations and parts ofs polymer business.
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