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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.
Grupo Financiero HSBC
Grupo Financiero HSBC, the Mexican arm of London-based financial giant HSBC Holdings, is a major local banking and financial services insution. Its main subsidiary, commercial bank HSBC México, is one of the leading banks in the country. Apart from the bank, the group includes the local insurer HSBC Seguros, the financial systems advisor HSBC Servicios, brokerage firm HSBC Casa de Bolsa, and HSBC Global Asset Management. In 2013, solds financial u HSBC Fianzas to Mexican financial group Grupo Financiero Aserta, as part of an international cost-cutting strategy by selling non-core assets. Grupo Financiero HSBC has been operating in Mexico since opening a representative office in the 1970s. It is based in Mexico y, Mexico.
Credicorp
Credicorp Ltd., Peru’s largest financial services holding company, is mainly engaged in commercial banking (including trade finance and leasing), caal market actiies (including corporate finance, brokerage services, asset management, and trust, custody and proprietary trading and investment) and insurance (including commercial property, transportation and marine hull, automobile, life, health and pension fund underwing insurance). The company’s principal operating subsidiaries include local bank Banco de Créo del Perú S.A., private sector pension fund manager Prima AFP S.A., investment bank Credicorp Caal Perú S.A.A. and Panama-based bank Atlantic Secuy Bank. Credicorp was founded in 1995 and is based in Lima. In 2014, Credicorp mergeds healthcare operations in the country h those of Chilean health insurer Banmédica S.A. The two companies are jointly developing their healthcare businesses in Peru.
Santander Chile
Chile’s largest bank Santander Chile provides a broad range of commercial and retail banking services tos customers, including Chilean peso and foreign currency denominated loans to finance a variety of commercial transactions, trade, foreign currency forward contracts and cre lines, as well as mortgage financing. Other business banking products and services include checking accounts, investment accounts, cre cards, office banking, payroll and payment solutions, and B2B portals. Santander Chile also offers a full line of personal banking products, such as checking accounts, savings accounts, investment accounts, cre cards, and de cards. In adion tos traional banking operations, the company provides an array of financial services including financial leasing, financial advisory services, mutual fund management, secuies brokerage, insurance brokerage and investment management. Founded in 1977 and based in Santiago, Santander Chile is the local u of Spanish banking giant Santander.
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Electricaribe
Colombian distribution company Electrificadora del Caribe S.A. E.S.P. (Electricaribe), a subsidiary of Spain’s Gas Natural SDG S.A., operates in the north of the country, distributing energy in Atlántico, Cesar, Magdalena and Guajira departments. The company operates 29 substations and more than 27,800km of medium and high-voltage networks. Electricaribe was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Gener
AES Gener S.A. is the largest thermal generator and second largest electriy generator in Chile, accounting for 22% of total capay on the country’s two grids. It boasted 4.068GW of installed capay in Chile at end-2012. The firm owns and operates a diverse portfolio of power plants in the country, including faciies operating on coal, gas, diesel, biomass and water. AES Gener serves the country’s SIC grid through four run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plants, one coal-fired thermoelectric power plant, four diesel-fueled turbogas power plants, two cogeneration power plants and a combined-cycle gas turbine. It also serves the northern SING grid throughs subsidiaries Norgener S.A., Empresa Eléctrica Angamos S.A. and Termoandes S.A. The firm currently operates in Argentina and Colombia through subisidiaries Termoandes S.A. and AES Chivor Cia S.C.A. E.S.P. AES Gener is controlled by US power company AES Corp, throughs subsidiary Inversiones Cachagua SpA.
Light
Brazilian holding company Light owns power generation, transmission and trading assets in three regions in Rio de Janeiro state. Controlled by Brazilian utiy group Cemig, Light serves individual, commercial and industrial clients in a concession area that comprises 31 municipaies and has a population of around 10mn. Its generation assets include five hydroelectric plants h total installed capay of 855MW: Santa Branca, Ilha dos Pombos, Fontes Novas, Nilo Peçanha, and Pereira Passos. In terms of projects, Light owns an interest in consortium Norte Energia, responsible for building and operating the hydroelectric plant Belo Monte, Latin America’s largest electriy generation project. In partnership h Cemig, the company won a concession to build and operate the 150MW Itaocara hydroelectric plant in Rio de Janeiro, including the construction of a dam, the flooding of 41.5km2 of land and all associated transmission infrastructure. Light also formed a joint venture h Furnas to build the US$50mn Olímpica substation and two associated 138kV power lines, an infrastructure project related to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Polaris Infrastructure
Polaris Infrastructure Inc., formerly Ram Power Corp., is a US energy company engaged in the acquiion, exploration, development and operation of geothermal energy projects. It has interests in geothermal projects in the US, Canada and Nicaragua. In Nicaragua, operates the 72MW San Jacinto-Tizate geothermal concession near the y of León, some 90km northwest of caal Managua. In adion, Ram Power, acting through subsidiary Cerro Colorado Power S.A., looks to sign a 25-year operation contract h Nicaraguan authoies for the Caa geothermal project in northwest Chinandega department. The country’s power generation plan envisions up to 140MW from Caa. Ram Power was founded in 2008 and is based in Reno, Nevada.
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HP
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is a US-based global provider of products, technologies, software, solutions and services to individual consumers, small and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises in the government, health and education sectors. The company offers multi-vendor customer services, enterprise information technology infrastructure, personal computing and other access devices, and imaging and printing-related products and services. HP is organized into seven business segments: services, enterprise storage and servers, HP software, the personal systems group, the imaging and printing group, HP financial services and corporate investments. The company operates in more than 170 countries around the world h regional offices in Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Perú, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico, and authorized distributors throughout Latin America.
Software AG
German applications developer Software AG provides data processing solutions and services h a focus on business integration and enterprise transaction systems. The company operates through three business us: Enterprise Transaction Systems (ETS), Business Process Excellence (BPE) and Consulting. Its product portfolio includes solutions for high performance data management, developing and modernizing applications, enabling service-oriented arcecture, and improving business processes. Founded in 1969 and based in Darmstadt, Germany, the company has a presence in 70 countries worldwide including Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. In 2015, the company announced a partnership h Delte to develop and implement dial projects for the financial, manufacturing and public sectors in Brazil.
Symantec
Symantec is a US secuy firm which provides a broad range of content and network secuy software and appliance solutions to enterprises, individuals and service providers. Products include solutions for management of data, application and infrastructure, secuy, and storage and service, as well as enterprise and consumer secuy, and response and managed secuy services. Symantec, recently merged h Veas Software, has operations in more than 40 countries, including Brazil and Mexico. The company dividess regional business along four geographic areas – Brazil, Mexico, North of Latin America (NOLA) and South of Latin America (SOLA). Symantec was acquired by software giant SAP in 2010. It is headquarted in Cupertino, California.
Teradata
Teradata is a US-based company focused on enterprise data warehouseing, analytical applications and data warehousing services. Its data warehousing solutions are comprised of software, hardware and related business consulting and support services. The company serves customers across a broad set of industries globally, ranging from small departmental and corporate implementations to large data warehouses. Teradata, headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, was spun off from NCR Corporation and operates from three locations in the Ued States: Georgia, Ohio and California. In adion has sales and services offices located in approximately 40 countries. In Latin America maintains offices in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. In early-2015, Teradata acquired Appoxee, a Tel Aviv-based mobile marketing and engagement SaaS provider, h clients across America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.
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achi
achi Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a global electronics company h approximately 321,000 employees worldwide. The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services, including construction machinery, information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, property management and financial services. Operations in Latin America are located in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru.
ICA
Mexican construction giant ICA operates in the areas of engineering, procurement, and construction. It is the largest EPC company and largest provider of construction services in the country. The holding company provides services to public and private-sector clients throughs main lines of business: construction of infrastructure facilties, industrial and urban construction, and housing development. ICA has expertise in the construction, maintenance and operation of highways, ports, airports, bridges and tunnels, as well as the management and operation of water supply and solid waste disposal systems. The firm, which began operations in 1947, currently has operations in Latin America, US and Europe.
Ideal
Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo en América Latina (Ideal) is a Mexican investment company, which, throughs subsidiaries, operates in the construction and engineering sectors. It is divided into four business segments: highways, water, energy and transport. The firm is engaged in the development, evaluation, design, development and management of projects in Mexico and the region, including highways, ports, wastewater treatment faciies, hydroelectric plants, multimodal transport terminals and prisons. Ideal holds the concessions to nine Mexican highways in the states of Puebla, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca, Jalisco, Naya, Sinaloa, Baja California and the Federal District. In Panama, the firm owns hydro electric plant Baltún (86MW). Ideal was formed in 2005 and is based in Mexico y.
Concepa
Brazilian tollroad operator Concepa was awarded a 20-year concession in 1997 to manage 121km (9km single-lane and 112km double-lane) of highway BR 209/RS between the ies of Osório and Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul state. In adion, manages one bi-directional and two one-way toll-collecting centers h 58 manual and four automated toll booths. Concepa was founded in 1997 and is based in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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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.
MetLife
US insurance giant Metlife provides life, accident and health insurance, as well as cre insurance, annies, retirement plans and savings accounts to individuals and group clients. The company serves clients in nearly 50 countries and is the largest life insurer in the US and Mexico. Founded in 1868 and based in New York, Metlife has a Latin American presence in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador and Uruguay, serving a total of nearly 25 million customers. This region is considered by the firm as a cornerstone ofs future business and pro growth strategy.
Rimac
Peruvian insurance and reinsurance company Rimac Seguros, part of local financial group Brescia, is the country’s oldest insurance company, specializing mainly in the health and life insurance areas. The company also provides worke insurance, general risk insurance, auto insurance and accident insurance, as well as annies comprising retirement and disabiy insurance. The company was formed as a result of the merger between Compañía Internacional de Seguros del Perú and Compañía de Seguros Rimac in 1992. In 2002, acquired the general insurance portfolio of local compeor Wiese Aetna and two years later purchased Royal Sun Alliance’s general and life operations in Peru, increasings footprint in the local insurance industry. Based in Lima, Rimac Seguros has offices in Arequipa, Cajamarca, Cusco, Chiclayo, Huancayo, Iqos, Piura, and Trujillo.
Porto Seguro
Brazilian insurer Porto Seguro, the country’s largest auto insurer, offers a range of insurance services and products, including automobile, health, PC, life and cargo insurance, to individual, corporate and government customers. Founded in 1945 and based in São Paulo, Porto Seguro was created to concentrate the shareholding control of Porto Seguro Companhia de Seguros Gerais ands subsidiaries, aiming to faciate the development of other insurance-related actiies. In 2013, the company acquired Azul Seguros, the local u of French insurer AXA. Besidess Brazilian operations, the company has a subsidiary in Uruguay. Porto Seguro Seguros del Uruguay was formed in 1995 and is one of the major players in the country’s private insurer market, mainly focus on car, fire and cargo insurance.
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Gerdau
Brazil’s largest steelmaker Gerdau S.A. is also the biggest producer of long steel in the Americas and one of the major providers of specialty long steel in the world, supplying the civil construction, agricultural and industrial sectors. The Porto Alegre-based company has plants – including steel mills, hot rolling faciies, and processing plants – in 14 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia, where produces 25Mt/y of steel in blast furnaces and electric arc furnaces. Its production lines include flat products, long carbon steels, specialty long steels, sheets, blocks and billets, and forged and cast parts. Gerdau’s assets are controlled by local steel holding company Metalúrgica Gerdau S.A.
Posco
South Korean steelmaker Posco manufactures and sells various steel products, including plates, wire rods, silicon steel sheets, stainless steel, hot-rolled and cold-rolled products. Based in Seoul, Posco is present in Latin America through pellet producer Companhia Coreano-Brasileira De Pelotizacao (Kobrasco),?s Brazilian JV h mining giant Vale S.A. In 2014, Posco signed a protocol of intentions h Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state for the construction of a US$1.8bn coal gasification plant near the Triunfo petrochemical hub. h a 2Mm3/d capay, the plant will produce coal-derived synthetic natural gas. That same year Posco started building a new coking faciy fors US$4bn Companhia Siderúrgica do Pecém (CSP) steel mill in Ceará state. CSP is a JV h steelmaker Dongkuk and Vale.
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.
ALCOA Aluminio Brasil
Alcoa Alumínio, the Brazilian subsidiary of US aluminum giant Alcoa, produces primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina. In adion to aluminum products and components, including flat-rolled products, hard alloy extrusions, and forgings, Alcoa also markets Alcoa wheels, fastening systems, precision and investment castings, and building systems. The company serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation and industrial markets. It has branches in several Brazilian states, h a central office in São Paulo, and more than 6,000 employees throughout Latin America. Alcoa produces approximately one fifth of all primary aluminum manufactured in Brazil.
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Buenaventura
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. is a Peruvian miner engaged in the exploration, mining, development and processing of gold, silver and other precious metals. The company, the country’s largest locally owned precious metals producer, operates several mines in Peru (Orcopampa, Uchucchacua, Poracota, Tantahuatay, La Zanja, Rio Seco, Julcani, Antae and Mallay) and has controlling interest in mining companies Cedimin and El Brocal. Buenaventura, through a JV h Newmont Mining Corp., also owns 43.7% of Yanacocha, Latin America’s largest gold mine, and 19.6% of copper producer Cerro Verde. The company recently announced that will start operations ats Chucapaca gold-copper project by 2018. Buenaventura was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Lima, Peru.
Kinross Gold
Canada’s Kinross Gold is a gold mining company h operations worldwide. In Latin America, Kinross owns the Maricunga mine in Chile and Paracatu in Brazil, the largest gold mine in the country. The company also owns the La Coipa mine in Chile where actiies were suspended in 2013 as the mine reached the end ofs life. That same year, Kinross subted an environmental impact assessment in order to expand the mine operation. The firm is evaluating the potential of the Catalina and District targets and the viabiy of La Coipa phase 7. The miner also holds a 25% stake in the Cerro Casale project, one of the world’s largest undeveloped gold and copper depos, located in Chile’s Atacama region (III) and in which Toronto-based Barrick Gold holds 75%. Kinross Gold’s Fruta del Norte (FDN) project in Ecuador was suspended in 2013 due to the inabiy to agree h the local government on certain key economic and legal terms, after more than two years of negotiations. The company sold the project to Vancouver-based Lundin Gold in 2014 for US$240mn. The company also has operating mines and projects in Russia, Ghana, Mauania and the US and reached record production of 2.71Moz of gold equivalent in 2014. Kinross Gold was founded in 1993 and is based in Toronto.
CMX
Chilean Metals Inc., formerly International PBX Ventures, is a Canada-based junior mining and exploration company focused on acquiion and development of molybdenum, copper and gold properties in Chile. Its main project iss Copaquire molybdenum-rhenium-copper property . It also owns the Sierra Pintada, Palo Negro, Tierra de Oro and Tabaco properties, all located in Chile.
AngloGold
AngloGold Ashanti is a South African gold producer h a portfolio of 20 operations on four continents. Its Latin American assets include the Cerro Vanguardia mine in Argentina, a joint venture h local firm Fomicruz located in Santa Cruz province, while in Brazil has the mines Córrego do Sítio Mineração, in Minas Gerais state, and Serra Grande, in Goiás state. The company is also exploring the Graben project, where has an agreement h Graben Mineração to explores tenement in the Juruena belt. Finally,s Colombian properties include La Colosa, Gramalote and Nuevo Chaquiro, a copper-gold porphyry-style depo hins Quebradona project, a JV h Vancouver-based B2Gold. Ins present form, AngloGold Ashanti was formed in 2004 and is based in Johannesburg.
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Recope
Costa Rica’s state oil refinery Recope is engaged in the import, refining, transportation and sale of oil and derivatives. Its products include gasoline, diesel fuel, bunker fuel, ethanol, ethyl alcohol, LPG, fuel oil, jet A-1 plane fuel, kerosene, naphtha and asphalt. Recope operates a network of multiple pipelines h a total length of 542km. Recope was founded in 1961 and is based in San José, Costa Rica.
Ultragaz
Brazilian LPG distributor Companhia Ultragaz S.A., a u of fuel distribution, gas and chemical group Ultrapar Participações S.A., distributes bottled and bulk LPG nationwide, and sells bottled LPG throughs own retail stores and through independent dealers as well ass own delivery truck fleet. The company serves some 40mn households and 46,000 customers in the bulk segment – which represents a market share of 28% in the country. Ultragaz has a widespread distribution network in Brazil, served by 17 filling plants and 21 satele stations. In 2011, Spain’s Repsol S.A. solds 100% stake in Repsol Gas Brasil S.A. to Ultragaz. Ultragaz was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
Schlumberger
US-based Schlumberger is an oilfield service company supplying a range of technology services and solutions to the international petroleum industry. The company operates in two segments, oilfield services and WesternGeco. The oilfield services segment provides technology, project management and information solutions, while the WesternGeco segment provides reservoir imaging, mooring and development services, as well as operating seismic crews, data processing centers and a multi-client seismic library. Founded in 1926 and hs main offices in Houston, Paris and The Hague, Schlumberger employs more than 126,000 people in 85 countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela.
Empresas Copec
Empresas Copec S.A. is a Chilean industrial holding company organized into two business areas: energy – including liquid fuel distribution, electric power generation, liquefied gas, and natural gas – and natural resources, a division that engages in forestry, fishing and mining actiies. Throughs liquid fuel distributing and marketing services, Copec operates 622 service stations h a Chilean market share of 64.8%. Abastible,s LPG distribution subsidiary, has a network of 1,485 distributors, 46,000 tanks, 5.9 cylinders, and a 34.9% market share. Metrogas,s natural gas distributor, operates a 5,000-km gas pipeline network that distributes gas to around 440,000 clients. In adion, the company has a 25% stake in coal-fired thermoelectric generator Guacolda, providing a total gross power of 304MW. Its mining sector engages in doré metal and coal exploration and production actiies. Empresas Copec is controlled by Grupo Angelini throughs subsidiary AntarChile S.A.
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