Medellin-based multinational electric-power transmission, highways concessionaire and telecom giant ISA announced July 31 a 2% year-on-year gain in second quarter (2Q) 2024 net income, to COP$708 billion (US$173 million). Revenues for 2Q 2024 declined 3% year-on-year, to COP$3.4 trillion
Luxembourg-based multinational telecom-internet-cable-TV giant Millicom announced today (July 31) a deal whereby Millicom and Spain-based Telefonica would merge their Colombia operations and also buy-out EPM´s 49.9% stake in Tigo-UNE. The announcement comes on the heels of Millicom´s rejection of the recent US$4.1 billion buyout offer from telecom competitor Atlas Luxco
Medellin-based multinational foods giant Grupo Nutresa announced July 25 that its second quarter (2Q) 2024 net income rose 17.4% year-on-year, to COP$164 billion (US$40.8 million), from COP$140.4 billion (US$34.9 million) in 2Q 2023. Gross revenues for 2Q 2024 rose 4.9% year-on-year, to COP$565 billion (US$140.6 million), according to a filing with Colombia´s
Medellin-based textile giant Fabricato S.A. announced July 12 in a filing with Colombia’s Superfinanciera oversight agency that it has formally entered bankruptcy protection. The bankruptcy filing “has as its objective the protection of credit and the recovery and conservation of the company as a unit of economic exploitation and source of employment, through
Medellin Mayor Federico Gutiérrez announced July 4 that he will bring a proposal to the Medellin City Council this month to sell city-owned EPM’s 49.99% share of telecom-internet-cable-TV giant Tigo-Une. The move comes on the heels of Atlas Luxco’s US$4.1 billion proposal to buy-out Luxembourg-based Millicom. Millicom owns the other half of Tigo-UNE here in […]
Medellin-based health-network-insurance provider Sura EPS – one of Colombia’s biggest EPS organizations, with 5.4 million members – announced May 28 that it has just begun the process to exit the health-insurance market, effectively due to government financial strangulation. The move comes as Sura EPS — a subsidiary of Medellin-based multinational insurance giant
Medellin’s up-and-coming “Oriente” suburbs not only host the JMC International Airport and burgeoning residential/commercial developments, but also some unusually innovative companies — including a far-sighted solar photovoltaic (PV) start-up by the name of “50/50 Group.” Initially created in 2021 by (now-retired) former Shell Manager Claudia Zuluaga as a “green”
Medellin-based multinational specialty-fibers and packaging producer Grupo Excala/Compañia de Empaques announced May 14 a net loss of COP$918 million (US$240,000) for first quarter (1Q) 2024. The loss was blamed on a COP$9.08 billion (US$2.37 million) deterioration in the value of Excala’s investment in agroindustrial production of fique fiber. Excala meanwhile reported a
Medellin-based insurance, health-care and asset-management multinational Grupo Sura announced May 15 that first quarter (1Q) 2024 net income soared 488% year-on-year, to COP$4.9 trillion (US$1.28 billion). Total revenues likewise jumped 52.2% year-on-year, to COP$13.6 trillion (US$3.55 billion). “This increase is mainly due to a 365.7% growth in revenue from investments,
Medellin-based Grupo Argos – parent company of Cementos Argos, power producer Celsia and highway/airport concessionaire Odinsa – announced May 15 a first quarter (1Q) 2024 net profit of COP$6.5 trillion (US$1.7 billion) — a whopping 1,041% year-on-year increase. “With the successful closure in January of this year of the asset combination between Summit Materials and























