{"id":7424,"date":"2013-04-16T15:13:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2013-04-16T15:13:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:13:55","slug":"behind-big-colombian-investors-come-smes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/behind-big-colombian-investors-come-smes\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind Big Colombian Investors Come SMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/colombia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7425\" title=\"colombia\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/colombia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/colombia.jpg 659w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/colombia-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Colombia continues to grow and prosper, new small and medium enterprises are capitalizing on the opportunities.\u00a0\u00a0 Colombian SMEs see an opportunity to position themselves in Central  America, alongside the corporations from that country that have already  landed in the region.\u00a0 Some of the sectors with positive expectations for <span class=\"hlink\">business<\/span> in the region are: construction, <span class=\"hlink\">ceramics<\/span>, <span class=\"hlink\">furniture<\/span> and finishings, cosmetics and toiletries.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are Sirius and <span class=\"hlink\">Cosm\u00e9ticos Bachu\u00e9<\/span>, two companies out of the nearly 200 <span class=\"hlink\">SMEs<\/span> interested in finding a place for their products in Central America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alvaro Gomez, director of the trade office <span class=\"hlink\">Proexport<\/span> in <span class=\"hlink\">Costa Rica<\/span>, said the country needs to double its <span class=\"hlink\">power generation<\/span> levels over the next eight years. This opens up great opportunities for  electrical companies, like Sirius, in a country which in 2012 exported  goods and services worth $274.4 million,&#8221; noted an article in  Elcolombiano.com.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <span class=\"hlink\">Ram\u00f3n Urrego  Garc\u00eda<\/span>, head of sales at Bachu\u00e9 is also confident that Central American doors will open in the future for the <span class=\"hlink\">company<\/span>&#8216;s product portfolio&#8230; &#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Colombia continues to grow and prosper, new small and medium enterprises are capitalizing on the opportunities.\u00a0\u00a0 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