Grupo Romero’s Alicorp is the largest consumer goods company in Peru. Over the approximately 60 years it has been in business, Alicorp has grown through several merger and acquisition transactions with other local firms. The company currently has clear market leadership in most of the key categories it competes in. Alicorp’s revenue comes...
Over the past five years growth in the real estate sector has outpaced that of the economy as a whole, driven by increasing household income levels; pent-up demand, particularly among middle- and middle-low-income households; greater access to mortgages due to lower interest rates; and state housing programmes such as the My House fund....
Southern Copper Corporation is an integrated copper producer with mining, smelting and refining facilities located in Mexico and Peru. The company’s main products are copper, molybdenum, zinc and silver. Southern Copper has exploration activities in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru. Originally known as the Southern Peru Copper...
Broadly speaking, the government of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has been working on two broad categories of capital market reform. The first is a series of changes introduced during the 90-day period running up to January 2017, when the president had special fast-track authority to approve decree laws. Among the 112 measures announced in...
With a rating of “BBB+/A3”, Peru has solid economic fundamentals to support its bond market. The country is a leader in terms of economic growth in South America, has strong macroeconomic balances, low public debt, a robust financial system, low country risk metrics and a broad portfolio of infrastructure projects.
In an increasingly interconnected world, IT is more important than ever to economic development and social connectivity. According to a survey prepared for international consultant Raúl Luciano Katz, digitalisation has generated some 41,725 additional jobs every year over the past decade in Peru, and the sector has the potential to contribute...
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