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ADVANCE GUATEMALA
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Cases pending research: PepsiCo/cbc, BPOs, ENEL and Colombian banks

Dossier
The record of foreign investment: real cases11-casos.md
Domain
Foreign investment, in figurescasos-inversion
Room
Economy/economia
Audited
not audited

The atlas does not yet have verified data on these cases: the session's search budget ran out halfway through the research and no figure was estimated. Still to be researched are PepsiCo/cbc (the bottling alliance, the cbc–AmBev joint venture, acquisitions); AB InBev / Cervecería Centro Americana (AmBev's entry in 2003); the BPO firms Telus Digital, Concentrix and Alorica (entry dates, sites, jobs); McDonald's master franchisee (do not use the name ‘Grupo Premium’ without confirming it); Cargill (poultry acquisitions); Bimbo, Unilever and P&G (plants and jobs); ENEL Green Power (the Palo Viejo, El Canadá and Montecristo hydro plants, MW and amounts; the route tried returned 404); Grupo Terra (fuels and energy); and banking (Bancolombia/BAM 2013–2015, Ficohsa and Citi's consumer bank around 2016, Promerica). Candidate sources are cbc.co, PepsiCo's annual reports, telusdigital.com, releases from Agexport and Invest Guatemala, Grupo Bancolombia's 20-F filed with the SEC, the banking supervisor (SIB) and material-event filings.

The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.

Caveat

unverified; not to be published until the sources are closed

Sources

  • Atlas de inversión, dossier 11-casos.md, sección 'No encontrado / por investigar'No site publishedconsulted

Organizations named in the answer

  • PepsiCoAn anchor company named by the Villa Nueva municipality (a precedent for industrial siting)Company case
  • Cervecería Centro AmericanaDominant player in beer (founded 1886; the Gallo brand since 1896); a reference point for the entry barrier that local distribution conglomerates impose.Company case
  • ConcentrixInternational player in the Contact Center & BPO sector; it announced 500 new jobs in early 2026.Company case
  • AloricaInternational player in the Contact Center & BPO sector present in Guatemala (cited by AGEXPORT and Invest Guatemala).Company case
  • CitiInternational placement agent for CBC's US$1,100 M sustainability-linked bond (27 January 2022) (§7).Bank
  • Grupo BancolombiaColombian controlling shareholder of BAM; an example of the large deals in Guatemala being done by strategic buyers (material-event filing with the SEC, 13 March 2020) (§2, §10).Bank

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