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Costa Rica Must Strengthen International Image After Losing Intel
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Strengthening the international image and recovering 20.6% of total exports will be the new challenge of Costa Rica...
Convergys to Hire More Staff for New Costa Rica Facilities
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Convergys, a U.S. company dedicated to customer service tasks, today announced it will expand its presence this year...
Intel’s Service Center Will Remain in the Costa Rica Despite Moving Their Factory
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Intel announced this morning that they will be eliminating their microchip manufacturing plant in Costa Rica, leaving only...
Costa Rican Companies Ensure Employment for People With Disabilities
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - In Costa Rica, since 1996, the 7600 Act on Equal Opportunities for All has been in place. However, many...
Costa Rica’s Tourism Sector Requests Halt on the Alcohol Ban for Easter
The Costa Rican News (TCRN) - The tourism sector in Costa Rica has asked the municipalities to discard the "dry law" for Easter and...
Costa Rica Honors Newly Carbon Neutral Businesses
The Costa Rican News (TCRN) - The government of Costa Rica today gave the stamp of carbon neutrality to six more companies and organizations,...
Five Companies Receive Carbon Neutral Status in Costa Rica
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Standardization Technical Institute of Costa Rica (Inteco) announced that five companies will be declared carbon neutral.
Inteco, one...
Costa Rican Businesses Increasingly Charge in Dollars Rather Than Colones
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Although officially the country's currency is the colon, shops are leaning to price their goods in dollars, which...
Costa Rican Export Program Eliminates Plant Pests
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The authorities in Costa Rica today highlighted the success of a program that has virtually eliminate pests of...
Costa Rica Eliminates Visas for Tourists and Businessmen from Countries in the Pacific Alliance
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The firm adhesion of Costa Rica to the Pacific Alliance, sealed a few days ago by the President...
Central America is the Biggest Market for Costa Rican Investments
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Central America is the largest holder of investment for Costa Rican companies with a share of 64.2%, which...
Ophthalmology Giant Opens Plant in Costa Rica
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - CooperVision, one of the three largest manufacturers of contact lenses worldwide, will open its next plant in Alajuela,...
Costa Rican Tourism Entrepreneurs Request Priority from the New Government
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) – Tourism entrepreneurs of Costa Rica hope the new president, to be elected on Sunday, will prioritize the development...
Chambers of Costa Rica and Panama Work Together to Promote Trade
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Chambers of Commerce of Costa Rica and Panama will combine to promote greater trade relations in Central...
The Construction Industry in Costa Rica Expected to Create 8,000 Jobs in 2014
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Costa Rican Chamber of Construction (CCC) today announced that in 2014 the construction sector expects to grow...
Costa Rica’s Tourism Sector Unhappy With the Alcohol Prohibition Act for the Elections
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The National Chamber of Tourism (CANATUR) of Costa Rica has expressed displeasure with the municipalities for making the...
Costa Rican Businesses are Optimistic for the Start of 2014
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Costa Rican entrepreneurs are optimistic for the first quarter of 2014. They hope to have job security, and...
Japan Opens Its Market to Costa Rican Meat Products
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Japan opened its market for pig and meat products from Costa Rica after certifying the country free of...
Kimberly-Clark Invests $31 Million in a New Plant in Costa Rica
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The American company Kimberly-Clark invested $31 million in Costa Rica in a new plant that was opened this...
Costa Rica Tourism Industry is Optimistic for the High Season
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The tourism sector in Costa Rica is optimistic about the current high season revealed a survey by the...
San Jose Places 11th in the Best Cities for Business
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - San Jose is in 11th place of the best cities to do business in Latin America, according to...
Costa Rican Exporters Prepare for Similar Growth in 2014
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Chamber of Exporters of Costa Rica (Cadexco) described 2013 as “difficult” due to minimal growth of foreign...
Belgium’s Bekaert Acquires New Plant in Costa Rica
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Belgium's Bekaert acquired a 73% stake in the manufacturing company, ArcelorMittal which makes steel wires in Costa Rica,...
Costa Rican Digital Tech Company Plans to Create 300 Job in the Next Three...
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - As part of its expansion plan to meet the regional market, the company Prodigious Latin America, based in...
Italian Company Opens New Packaging Facility in Costa Rica
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Italian firm Gualapack Group, launched its campaign in Costa Rica, to open its first production of food...
Chinese Entrepreneurs Seek Business Opportunities in Costa Rica
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - A business delegation from the Chinese province of Zhejiang is visiting Costa Rica in order to learn about...
Over 500 Restaurants Constructed in Four Years in Costa Rica
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The number of restaurants in the country has been growing at an increasing pace for about three years,...
Costa Rican Company Receives $3 Million in Private Equity Funding
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Establishment Labs, a Costa Rican breast implant manufacturer, recently obtained $ 3 million in funding from the private...
French IT services company expands operation
by SERGIO ARCE A
By the end of the year, the French firm Teleperformance services recruit 300 people, who will join the 310 who now...
