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Exchange rate7.64Q/US$Oct 6, 2026
Inflation, year on year3.37%Aug 2026
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Koramsa

CompanyGuatemala City

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Precedent: 250,000 jeans a week with 9,000 workers in early 2008; it announced around 4,000 redundancies in November 2008 because of the crisis ('Guatemala's leading maquila'); its key assets were bought by PCCA and relaunched as Denimatrix (February 2009)

AddressCiudad de Guatemala (núcleo zona 7, El Rodeo)

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'the largest maquila in Latin America', 'more than 7,000 jobs at closure', an order fall of around 50% from August to October 2008 and rehiring from 200: to be verified (the Clothesource URL returned 404)

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Cementos Progreso
Cervecería Centro Americana
EEGSA
cbc / Beliv
Yazaki
Allied Global

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Data as of Oct 6, 2026, 06:41

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