March 8, 2026
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Companies

EPM First-Half 2017 Net Profits Jump 78% Year-on-Year

Medellin Herald
Medellin-based multinational utilities giant Grupo EPM announced July 25 that its first-half 2017 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) rose 33% year-on-year, to COP$2.6 trillion (US$862 million), while net profits rose 78% year-on-year, to COP$1 trillion (US$331 million). The city of Medellin – EPM’s sole shareholder – so far this year
Congresses & Conferences

Ex-U.S. President Bill Clinton Praises Medellin’s Turnaround at World Coffee Producers Forum

Medellin Herald
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton told an overflow audience for the first-ever World Coffee Producers Forum July 11 that Medellin’s transformation from the world’s most violent city 25 years ago to a global leader in social innovation and progress might foretell what Colombia as a whole eventually could become. Holding the prestigious World Coffee Producers […]
General News

Guatape Tour Boat Sinks; 9 Confirmed Dead

Medellin Herald
Antioquia’s disaster-recovery agency — Departamento Administrativo para la Prevención, Atención y Recuperación de Desastres (DAPARD) – announced June 29 that the bodies of the last two persons missing from a boating disaster at Guatape lake have now been recovered by divers. A total of nine passengers died in the June 25 sinking of the “El […]
Congresses & Conferences

Investment, Convention, Tourism Agencies Teaming-up; Medellin Growth Tops in all Americas

Medellin Herald
Medellin’s three public agencies charged with promoting foreign investment, conventions and tourism announced in early June that they’ve developed a strategy to coordinate and boost promotional efforts. The Medellin Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Agencia de Cooperación e Inversión de Medellín y el Área Metropolitana (ACI Medellin) and the Plaza Mayor convention center

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