Medellin-based multinational foods giant Grupo Nutresa announced April 28 that first quarter (1Q) 2023 net income rose 15.6% year-on-year, to COP$348 billion (US$74 million). Sales likewise rose 35.7% year-on-on, to COP$4.88 trillion (US$1.04 billion), while earnings before interest, taxes,
Medellin-based electric-power generation giant Isagen announced April 14 that its full-year 2022 net income soared 135% year-on-year, hitting COP$1.23 trillion (US$278 million), up from COP$523 billion (US$118 million) in 2021. Gross revenues rose 38% year-on-year, to COP$4.81 trillion (US$1.09 billion), from COP$3.48 trillion (US$787 million) in 2021. Earnings before
Medellin-based Valores Industriales – now dealing mainly in real-estate, forestry and industrial/commercial operations in Colombia and Costa Rica – announced March 31 that full-year 2022 profits fell 57% year-on-year, to COP$55 billion (US$12 million), down from COP$128.7 billion (US$28 million) in 2021. However, gross revenues quadrupled year-on-year, to COP$1.02 trillion
Medellin-based industrial/consumer plastics-ware producer Industrias Estra announced March 29 a net profit of COP$1.58 billion (US$345,000) for full-year 2022, reversing a net loss of COP$1.96 billion (US$516,000) for full-year 2021. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) likewise dramatically improved, to COP$15 billion (US$3.3 million),
Medellin-based pension fund, insurance and disability-benefits manager Proteccion announced April 3 a 5.5% year-on-year boost in net income for 2022, hitting COP$291.8 billion (US$63.4 million). Gross revenues also rose 1.5% year-on-year, to COP$1 trillion (US$217 million), according to the company. Aiding those gains was the 6.27% rise in the number of contributing
Medellin-based cell-phone/internet/cable-TV/telecom giant UNE-EPM (commercially known as “Tigo”) on March 31 posted a COP$474 billion (US$103 million) net loss for full-year 2022 — a small improvement over the COP$572 billion (US$124 million) net loss in 2021. UNE-EPM also posted net losses in 2020 and 2018, while its 2019 net profit came-in at just COP$519 million
Public transit agency Metro de Medellin – 50% owned by the Antioquia departmental government and the other 50% owned by a city of Medellin public entity – announced March 31 that its full-year 2022 net income dropped 99% year-on-year, to COP$3.2 billion (US$688,000), from COP$328 billion (US$70.5 million) in 2021. Part of the net-income decline […]
Medellin-based chemicals, personal-products and industrial-piping giant Grupo Imsa – a spinoff from Medellin-based Grupo Orbis, the latter now part of global chemicals giant AkzoNobel – announced March 31 that its full-year 2022 profits jumped 176% year-on-year, to COP$39.9 billion (US$8.6 million). That compares to COP$1.7 billion (US$366,000) net profit in 2021, when
Medellin-based multinational agricultural packaging, construction, crop-protection and natural fique-fiber producer Grupo Excala announced this month that its full-year 2022 net income dipped 30% year-on-year, to COP$22.3 billion (US$4.8 million), from COP$31.8 billion (US$6.8 million) in 2021. Sales nevertheless rose 6% year-on-year, to COP$649 billion (US$139 million),
Medellin-based highway construction giant Construcciones El Condor announced March 31 a full-year 2022 net loss of COP$69.7 billion (US$14.9 million), a sharp reversal from the COP$8.8 billion (US$2.2 million) net profit for full-year 2021. El Condor blamed the profit decline on “the unrealized net exchange difference” between Colombian pesos and U.S. dollars, along with























