Successful Investiments

World-class Balloons for Professional Decorations.

“Less than one day navigation time from the Panama Canal, which allows us access to markets in Asia, and on the shores of the Caribbean Sea, in Barranquilla geographical distances disappear and become an optimal economic distance toward World markets.”

Oswald Loewy, President.

Galvanizad Steel Sheets.

“Locating in the PIMSA Industrial Park (Parque Industrial Malambo – PIMSA) was key to our being more competitive, as we are closer to the world”s ports and major markets. Before being located in PIMSA, Acesco only exported 5% of its production. Today, we export 50% of our product to Central and South America, the Caribbean, the United States and Mexico.”

Carlos Arturo Zuluaga, President.

Modular Furniture.

“The future of our organization and Colombia”s overall development depends on its exports; the market and globalization demand it. For this reason we are located in the state of Atlántico, in one of its most important industrial parks, PIMSA, since its strategic location is ideal for such purpose.”

Luis Enrique Piedrahita, Manager.

Travel and Tourism Agency.

“Barranquilla is our main operations center in the Atlantic Coast both in tourism as well as in customs and cargo transportation. It is one of the most booming cities in the country, with excellent human talent and the happiest people in the world.”

Jean Claude Bessudo, President.

Insurance company.

“Back in 1945, Barranquilla was the city were Suramericana de Seguros created its first branch outside their headquarters. In 1999 we established our Northern Region Office in Barranquilla, due to its strong potential in the industrial, commercial and services sectors; complemented by a strategic geographic location and the entrepreneurial skills of its people. Suramericana together with Susalud and Suratep generate support and integral solutions in insurance services and social security to the Industrial Capital of the Coast and to its people who are in constant growth and development.”

Gonzalo Pérez, President.

Floors and coating for households and construction projects.

"Being in the city of Barranquilla represents a great development opportunity for the Alfagres organization. As it is an outstanding industrial center in our country, with educational institutions of high recognition as universities and technological institutes, it allow us to take advantage of a structured human factor which is a key element in order to make our projects a successful reality".

Alberto Ospina, President.

“Barranquilla offers a great quantity of higher education institutions that ensure the availability of trained human resources for industry in all areas. There is a good level of bilingualism allowing English services coverage. Local authorities are committed to the development of the sector, and the city offers good telecommunications networks connected to submarine cables at very competitive prices. The real estate offer is abundant, at competitive prices. The power supply is excellent, and good public transport means allow fast connections to different parts of the city”

Carlos Aparicio, Director

Is a carrier”s carrier specializing in metropolitan telecommunications services delivered via optical fiber:

“In a globalized world where high quality communications are critical, Barranquilla counts with a next-generation world-class fiber optic metropolitan network. This coupled with its strategic location, makes of the city the ideal place for setting up new businesses”

Roberto Alcocer, President.

Main BPO company located in Barranquilla that constitutes in the first contact center fully bilingual specializing in near shoring to North America in both English and French languages.

“Having a clean Spanish accent, the English speaking agents has no noticeable accent. If we add that in the city we have more than 8 bilingual schools and universities with international agreements and well structured language programs, we positioned ourselves as meaningful source of bilingualism. Our closeness to the south of the US allows that a customer do not spend more than 2 hours and half to be in our facilities while traveling to India or Philippines take a whole day. Besides, Barranquilla offers a unique redundancy with submarine cables for the transportation of voice and data. All this advantages make that we are currently ten times what we were in the beginning”.

Jorge Caballero, Manager.

Leading world leader in HR services, present in Colombia since 1976:

“Investing in Barranquilla has been a highly profitable operation for Manpower. With modern transportation and telecom infrastructure, low cost high qualified resources and a shared time zone with the US, the city offers great opportunities for BPO and IT. Major urban and industrial center, Barranquilla also counts with excellent universities, entrepreneurship capacity and an ethnic diversity turning the city into the “golden gate of Colombia”

Rosalba Montoya Pereira, Manager.

Mincom is a leading global software solutions and services provider to asset-intensive industries:

“Mincom decided to locate its Colombian HQ in Barranquilla because this city is a strategic location for its operations in the region. From Barranquilla we provide support to clients in over 12 countries in Latin America and the US, and meet with our parent company expectations in terms of market penetration, cost, human resources and product development unit for our operations.”

Fernando Lee, Manager.