Latin CEO: Executive Strategies for the Americas

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Articles in April, 2000 issue of Latin CEO: Executive Strategies for the Americas

• Average annual growth rate of consumer prices
• The World Bank has issued one billion Mexican pesos
• PT Multimedia
• Mexico has reached a free trade agreement with Israel
• Agricultural dependence
• Banorte ascendant: five years after the collapse of the Mexican banking system, Monterrey's Banorte emerges as one of the clear winners
  by Daniel J. McCosh
• Santiago slowdown: the Chilean stock market loses volume as the year progresses. Will new changes in investment regulations help pump it up?
  by Mark Mulligan
• Unibanco, Brazil's third-largest private bank
• Government deposit insurance agency IPAB
• A regional virtual bank
  by Toby Muse
• Varig's flight plan
  by Elizabeth Johnson
• Head of the class: the 2000 Mercedes-Benz S430 puts a new spin on luxury in the best tradition of Mercedes-Benz in Latin America
  by Alex Krys
• Banco Santander Central Hispano
• Brazilian jet manufacturer Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA will supply 100 jets to US-based Continental Airlines
• In a US$555 million transaction, Dutch financial group ING Group has acquired a 39.7 percent stake in holding company Savia SA
• FTAA dissatisfaction
• Chocolate redux: Venezuela was once the world's biggest cacao producer. Now, Chocolates El Rey CEO Jorge Redmond Schlageter wants to return his country to the top ranks
  by Christina Hoag
• Short-term economic outlook
  by Manuel Lasaga
• Banking survival 101: in Latin American banking, the momentum is toward consolidation and outsourcing. It's either that, or losing marketshare to foreign banks
  by Paul Simpson
• Standard & Poor
• Moody's Investors Service
• Going online: Internet users
• Eye in the sky
  by Simon Romero
• Banking on long-distance: for the CEO of long-distance provider Avantel, connecting Mexicans to the rest of the world is only one part of the strategy to battle Telmex
  by Daniel J. McCosh
• Suite life in Mexico City: upgrades are nice, but when you must have the very best — regardless of cost — little can top these top-flight suites
  by Daniel J. McCosh
• Banking in Central America
• Barrick Gold Corp
• The government announced it will sell an 18.5 percent stake in Petroleo Brasileiro
• Pluspetrol-Hunt-SK, an Argentine, American and South Korean collaboration
• Wealth disparity
• Brazils fast-food king: Habib's founder Alberto Saraiva is taking his Brazilian franchise to Mexico. After that, he hopes, the world
  by Larry Luxner
• Move over Mexico… here comes Brazil: does the recent rating upgrade for Mexico mean that it's time to buy Mexican equities? Think again
  by Ian Laming
• BCP Telecomunicacoes SA
• Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever has doubled its size in Central America with the US$314 million
• Siderurgica del Orinoco SA
• Privatizing the right way
  by Daniel J. McCosh
• A mixed-use future: from hotels to affordable housing, Brascan's Jacky Delmar sees plenty of potential in the mix of Brazilian real estate. Better financing would help, too
  by Larry Luxner
• www.patagon.com: news in two languages for Latin American investors
  by Rochelle Broder-Singer
• The Pinto principle
• Paying the minimum price of US$1 billion, Spain's Iberdola, Banco do Brasil
• Grupo Imsa has once again called off its plan to purchase Altos Hornos de Mexico
• Congress in debt
• Child's play: Nickelodeon jumps into the Brazilian market with an advertising campaign aimed directly at kids
  by Jeffery Zbar
• Ripe for the picking
  by Jeff Ostrowski
• Buenos Aires oasis: a taste of old England in Argentina, the Hurlingham Club harkens back to the days when the influence of the crown was at its height
  by Ken Warn
• Banco Itau, Brazil's second-largest private bank, more than doubled its net income in 1999 to US$1.06 billion
• US energy and engineering company Enron Corp. agreed to assume control of construction company
• Deficit accounting
• The new venture capital environment
  by Rochelle Broder-Singer
• Portrait of a collector; Botero for breakfast, Wifredo Lam for lunch: the art of Jorge Perez
  by J.P. Faber
• Citigroup has agreed to buy back the 50-percent
• Gran Cadena de Almacenes Colombianos
• In a move to reduce its dependency on US currency, Venezuela
• Tourism booms
• Protecting the users: Network Associates' cutting-edge niche: reducing computer risk in Latin America
  by Richard Westlund
• Have a seat
  by Oscar Musibay
• AES Corporation
• Bancolombia
• Coke bottler Panamerican Beverages Inc. and Pepsi bottler Sopresa CA
• Street life
• Deregulated in Peru: FirstCom's chief executive in Peru takes on a telecom giant, but with the power of a strong brand like AT&T behind him the battle is a little easier
  by Lucien Chauvin
• A financial Web site focused on Latin America
  by Rochelle Broder-Singer