Argentina

Argentine food producer Arcor has announced plans to invest US$40mn in Chile to build a new confectionery factory. The investment will be made through its Chilean sugar confectionery... 2011-10-27

BMI's food and drink team are rolling out a series of new and improved risk/reward ratings for all its regions. The new ratings, introduced here for the Latin America region are more... 2011-10-24

Mexican bakery giant Grupo Bimbo has completed the purchase of Argentina's largest baking company, Fargo. Bimbo previously owned 30% of the firm and has received approval to take full... 2011-09-22

Chile's third largest supermarket operator Grupo SMU has announced it is to acquire smaller rival Supermercados del Sur. Full terms of the deal have not been disclosed, although SMU... 2011-09-19

PepsiCo has announced the acquisition of Argentine biscuit and cracker producer Dilexis for an undisclosed price. Dilexis is reported to have revenue of approximately US$100mn, with... 2011-09-15

Chile's second-largest grocery retailer by market share Cencosud can look forward to the next few years. Increasingly well-positioned in Latin America and in particular Brazil, it is... 2011-09-08

Within the major countries of Latin America the beer sector is highly concentrated, with AmBev dominant in Brazil and Argentina (as well as in Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay ), SABMiller... 2011-08-16