SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearshore Nexus 2016, the premiere outsourcing conference focused on Latin America IT Services and BPO, is being held in San Francisco, on May 11th-12th, 2016.  This is the first time the conference has been hosted on the west coast, bringing to focus executive-level dialogue surrounding the opportunities, risks, and advantages of developing ...

San Jose, Apr 26 (EFE).- A major strike launched Tuesday with a huge march by union groups in defense of labor rights and public institutions paralyzed classes at Costa Rica's public schools and assorted health services. "It's been a success. President (Luis Guillermo) Solis should understand that the people are not happy with his administration," the president of the ANDE teachers union, Gilbe...

Pixabay Commons By Nardy Baeza Bickel ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan will launch a new partnership that enables MBA students from one of Latin America's top business schools earn a master of public administration degree at the Ford School of Public Policy. The dual-degree program, which begins August 2016, is designed for students in the one-year MBA section with exemplary English-...

Pixabay Commons HOWELL, MI--(Marketwired - Apr 14, 2016) - Cleary University today announced the launch of its new Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Costa Rica. The bootcamp is focused on teaching participants the basic principles of building a location independent business. The pilot bootcamp will run August 7 through August 11, 2016. Beginning in 2017, the Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (PRWEB) APRIL 08, 2016 - In San Jose, Costa Rica, the CENCATEC institute educational training center was inaugurated on Wednesday and Thursday 30/31 March 2016. The training sessions began on Wednesday with Trane air conditioning units and Ecox VRF units. This was followed by a product overview given by Uniweld on Thursday, and the introduction of Uniweld’s latest product intro...

(Wikimedia Commons) LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to Technavio’s latest report, the global contact center market is expected to reach USD 9.7 billion by 2019, growing at a CAGR of over 9% during the forecast period. “The global contact center market has been registering a positive growth rate for the past five years, and this growth is expected to gain momentum in the coming years. Inn...

Source: Convergys (San Jose, March 14, 2016) Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), global leader in customer management, revealed the expansion of their business in Costa Rica with a hiring commitment to support their growing customer service and technical operations. This expansion will help Convergys build upon its current staff by adding approximately 500 new highly specialized jobs in Custome...

Source: UNDP United Nations Development Programme Press Release - One of the world’s biggest pineapple producing countries – Costa Rica – has officially adopted a widely endorsed action plan to tackle serious social and environmental concerns in this critical sector, worth US$ 800 million to the national economy. Agrochemical run-off into water sources is a key issue that the plan will targ...

Wikimedia Commons GMB UK Press Release - GMB is calling for Fyffes, the Irish multinational fruit company, to improve working conditions for Honduran and Costa Rican plantation and farm workers and to pay them a living wage. At an advisory meeting to the EU-Central America Association Agreement on March 1st, Bert Schouwenburg, one of 3 European trade union representatives, condemned Fyffes ...

Source: British Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica On 2 February 2016, seven young women graduated from FEMBUZ (Female Entrepreneurs in Buffer Zones), a pilot project developed by Raleigh International with funding from the British Embassy San Jose. The programme was designed to strengthen the economic and social development of communities within protected areas in Costa Rica as well as to promot...

Ingram Micro CINDE News Release - San Jose, Costa Rica. US based Ingram Micro Inc. officially opened its shared services center and its second facility in Costa Rica. It began operations with 135 employees but due to the increase in functions, languages and geographies forecast to serve, the company projects to double that number in the coming months. The inauguration took place last Thurs...

Ana Helena Chacon Echeverria, Vice President of the Republic of Costa Rica witnessed the signing of the document. Source: Cisco Cisco Press Release - SAN JOSE, Costa Rica 11 February 2016 – In order to exchange information and share best practices to support the digital agenda for Costa Rica, the Telecommunications Vice Ministry, a specialized unit from MICITT (Ministerio de Ciencia Tecnología...

NTT Data Plano, TX – February 11, 2016 – NTT DATA, Inc., a leading IT services provider, announced today that it has opened a new service delivery center located in San Jose Costa Rica, to support its growing business in North America. The addition of the Costa Rica center strengthens the company’s ability to respond quickly and efficiently to client needs with accelerated solutions that lever...

Indeed.com AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Indeed announced today it started 2016 with record unique visitors, with more than 200 million over the past 31 days. Indeed also announced it added eight additional markets where job seekers will have access to the most jobs on the web. The announcement builds upon a strong 2015, which solidified Indeed’s position as the number one job site in the ...

Source: CINDE CINDE Press Release - The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE) will be participating at this year's MD&M West event in Anaheim, California. Learn more and identify key investment opportunities in Costa Rica to gain competitive advantages for your business. When: Feb. 9 - 11 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Where: Booth 1647- Hall D....

Wikimedia Commons The USAID/OFDA Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Regional Office in Costa Rica is seeking one individual for a Secretary position. Please see the posting for this job at the website of the United States Embassy in Costa Rica. VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER: 2016-001 OPEN TO: All Interested Candidates POSITION: Secretary, FSN-6; FP-08* OPENING DATE: January 22, 201...

Evonik headquarters SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Jan. 19th, 2015 -  Evonik Industries, a leading global specialty chemical company based in Essen, Germany, announced today that it plans to open a financial shared services center in Costa Rica to serve the company’s operations in North and South America. Evonik will begin office construction and hiring during the first quarter of 2016 and expec...

By Alfonso Fernandez Washington, Jan 19 (EFE; additional context by The Costa Rica Star).- One of every five people in Latin America between the ages of 15 and 24 is neither in school nor working and two-thirds of them are women, according to a World Bank study released Tuesday. The figure represents more than 20 million people in the region and the problem is especially acute in Central Ame...

Source: Abbott CINDE Press Release - With the presence of Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis and Abbott Vascular Division Senior Vice President Mr. Deepak Nath, the company celebrated the fifth anniversary of its vascular devices manufacturing plant in Costa Rica, whose products are distributed and used around the world. Abbott has been in Costa Rica for over 80 years through the sa...

A Walmart store in Escazu, Costa Rica. File photo Washington, Jan 15 (EFE; additional reporting by The Costa Rica Star).- U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. on Friday announced plans to close 269 stores and lay off 16,000 employees, 6,000 of them outside the United States. In a news release, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company said it would close 154 stores in the United States and...

Wikimedia Commons CHICAGO, Jan. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- A.T. Kearney today released its 2016 Global Services Location Index™ (GSLI), a research paper that analyzes and ranks the top 55 countries for outsourcing worldwide based on metrics in three categories: financial attractiveness, people skills and availability, and business environment. T he GSLI brings rigor to companies' location dec...

Costa Rica's rapid rise in the last decade to become a global hub for foreign direct investment is spurring a new wave of investment opportunities in trending sectors, boosted by an expanded tax incentives package. Costa Rica is already home to more than 275 high-tech multinational companies like Intel, Amazon, HP Enterprise, P&G, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical and Abbott. The country ...

File photo LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Employees who work in the non-government business sector in Costa Rica should expect a salary raise next year that will be slightly lower than in 2015. A forecast issued earlier this month by Korn Ferry (NYSE:KFY), the preeminent global people and organizational advisory firm, reveals that workers around the world are expected see real wage increas...

Fiserv Costa Rica BROOKFIELD, Wis. & BARREAL DE HEREDIA, Costa Rica--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that a web-based application created during the Fiserv 2nd Annual Programathon will further the education of 50,190 schoolchildren in Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua. Bringing together ...

Zollner in Cartago Competing with successful companies requires a continuous supply of initiatives, ideas and concepts. One of the companies achieving success in the midst of intense global competition is Zollner AG, an electronic manufacturing services (EMS) market leader from Zandt, located in the Eastern Bavarian Forest of Germany. Founder Manfred Zollner can proudly look back on 50 year...

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA--(Marketwired - Dec 15, 2015) - The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE, in Spanish) and the Ministry of Foreign Trade (COMEX) reported that foreign investment businesses in the Services, Life Sciences, Advanced Manufacturing, Light Manufacturing and Food Industry sectors generated a total of 12,000 new jobs in 2015. According to Jorge Sequeira, Managing Director...

Source: VMware CINDE Press Release - San José, Costa Rica. 10 December 2015. VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, today inaugurated its new operations center in Costa Rica. During inauguration ceremonies, the company announced its intention to continue to hire local talent and grow its presence in the local market. The inauguration of ...

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA--(Marketwired - Nov 27, 2015) - The Costa Rican Coalition for Development Initiatives (CINDE) held a forum on Research and Development, with the purpose of analyzing the potentialities of Costa Rica to grow investments related to this industry, as well as the challenges to assume in order to position as a globally preferred destination for such investments. The event counte...

(PRWEB UK) 6 November 2015 - The successful candidate will work, alongside another travelling tutor, with three children, aged 12 to 17, with a variety of academic interests and requirements ranging from music to chemistry, to maintain their home curriculum over this period and prepare them for exams in their various key stages, including GCSE and A2. Adam Caller, founder of Tutors Internationa...

Wikimedia Commons ATLANTA, Nov. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax Inc., a multinational company in the financial services sector, the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE) and the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica, announced that Equifax Inc. will hire 400 employees in the next three years for its Shared Services Center, from which it will provide support for its operations in 19...

Auxis FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Auxis, a leading management consulting and outsourcing firm, providing both IT and business processing services, announced it is significantly expanding its service center in Costa Rica. Auxis will host an inaugural ceremony on Friday, October 30th, to be attended by the President of Costa Rica as well as important business, government, and communi...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Oct 26 (EFE).- Ford Motor Co. denied Monday that it decided to shift production from Mexico to the United States as a result of criticism from real estate magnate and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump. "Ford has not spoken with Mr. Trump, nor have we made any changes to our plans," a company spokesperson said. "We decided to move the F-650 and F-750 ...

Fitch Ratings-New York-22 October 2015: External tailwinds are unlikely to lead to a significant uplift in Central America's creditworthiness, says Fitch Ratings in a new special report. While external finances and inflation across the region have benefited from the U.S. recovery and lower oil prices, the outlook for growth, public finances and structural issues is more mixed. Nonetheless, the new...

Ft. Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) October 20, 2015 -- Auxis, a leading provider of management consulting and back office outsourcing services, announced today that Raul Vega, its Founder and CEO, will serve as Chairperson for the upcoming Shared Services & Outsourcing Week, October 26-28 in Miami. “SSOW LatAm is a major event in this space, and I’m looking forward to helping attendees, clients and...

From 2016 to 2020, retail coffee giant Starbucks plans to open 15 more cafes in Costa Rica, a business move that will generate more than 300 jobs. Such was the statement made by Monica Bianchini, general manager of Starbucks in Costa Rica, as she inaugurated the 8th location in our country. According to a news report filed by Marvin Barquero for national newspaper La Nacion, Ms. Bianchini expla...

TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - October 13, 2015) - For the second year in a row, Scotiabank is the only Canadian-based company named on the "World's Best Multinational Workplaces" list by the Great Place to Work® Institute. Companies are chosen for the World's Best Multinational Workplaces list predominantly based on data gathered from employee surveys and direct comments from employees. As in ...

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA--(Marketwired - Sep 23, 2015) - Bosch Service Solutions, a leading supplier of Business Process Outsourcing, expands its global network with the opening of its first business service center in Costa Rica on September 23th. The site will provide business support in finance, accounting and technical operations for the Bosch Group in North America as well as technical support for...

Source: VMware WMware, a major enterprise dedicated to virtualization at the server and desktop levels, is looking for top talent to join them at VMware’s Open House event on October 2 and 3 in Heredia, Costa Rica. Opened in 2012, the WMware Costa Rica office is located in the Free Trade Zone (Zona Franca) America and supports management services and internal processes that power VMware’s i...

San Diego, California (PRWEB) September 15, 2015 -- Mexico Soft Landing company Co-Production International (CPI), is releasing a white paper, “Checklist: The Top 7 Criteria for Choosing a Medical Device Manufacturing Location”, at the American Medical Device Summit 2015 that will be held in Chicago on September 21-22, 2015. As Manufacturing Expansion Experts, CPI provides a range of site selec...

New York, Sep 15 (EFE; additional reporting by The Costa Rica Star).- Hewlett Packard on Tuesday announced that it intends to lay off up to 30,000 workers to help cut costs by some $2.7 billion. The tech giant made the announcement in a communique issued from San Jose, California, which listed a series of measures to be taken to restructure the business group. The move was announced during a...