The Americas Economy

With the primary materials industry accounting for just 4.9% of state GDP in 2019, San Luis Potosí has come a long way since its foundation as a mining town in 1592. The early days of the city’s economic development are owed to its precious metal deposits, and the mark they made on the colonial economy was significant. As Mexico progressed, San Luis Potosí found itself in the...

The largest single private investment in the history of Hidalgo, Grupo Modelo’s new brewery in the southern municipality of Apan opened in March 2019 and is a key anchor investment for the state.

According to an OECD statement delivered in May 2019, SMEs will play a key role in the economic development of Hidalgo. The organisation suggested that the state should look to create “a more strategic vision to integrate local programmes with funding and leverage the National Entrepreneur Fund”. The fund, however, no longer exists; it was created in 2013 as an initiative of...

Compared to three other sectors selected as strategic by Hidalgo’s state government, the chemical-pharmaceuticals sector has additional room to grow in terms of the aggregate amount of investment that has arrived during the tenure of this administration.

In 2006 local conglomerate Grupo UNNE and Hong Kong-headquartered Hutchison Ports signed a strategic alliance to build the Intermodal Logistics Terminal of Hidalgo (TILH) in Tula, in the west of the state. Francisco Orozco, commercial director for Mexico at Hutchinson Ports, told OBG that the agreement envisioned “the terminal of the future”. The TILH became the only...

With the state capital, Pachuca, just 90 km north of Mexico City, Hidalgo’s location has long been a draw for investment. Economic growth in the country’s capital has attracted even more attention to the central state as it is the only flat territory that Mexico City and its suburbs can expand to. Its strategic location has brought transport and logistics infrastructure, as...