Argentina
Companies
US coffee shop chain Starbucks has announced the opening of its 500th outlet in Latin America, demonstrating its steady progress within this high potential market. Starbucks currently...
2011-11-22Companies
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...
2011-10-27Companies
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...
2011-10-24Companies
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...
2011-09-22Companies
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...
2011-09-19Companies
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...
2011-09-15Companies
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...
2011-09-08Companies
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



