AmericaEconomia Advances Its Annual `500 Largest Latin American Companies' Showcase Edition To July.MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1999-- AmericaEconomia, the premiere source of news and information on business and industry in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , will advance the publication of its popular "500 Largest Latin American Companies" edition for 1999. The reference source that has become an indispensable guide for anyone doing business in the region will enter circulation on July 29. The ninth annual 500 Issue will be the first comprehensive compilation Compiling a program. See compiler. in the region, and listings will identify the 500 companies with the most sales in Latin America, the most profitable companies, the 500 by sector, ownership and country, and the largest non-Latin multinationals. In addition, the AmericaEconomia staff of full-time editors and writers, largest in the region, will take a hard look at the Latin American conglomerates A Conglomerate is the term used to describe a large corporation that consists of diverse divisions. Conglomerate companies tend to be large multinational corporations with operations in multiple regions of the world. . They have been the big players in the last decades, but do they have a future? What changes are they going through? Are they diversifying to survive and thrive in times of globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation , or becoming more focused to be capable of competing on a regional and global scale? Which allies are they choosing, and how, as they adapt to new times? The magazine will focus on some of the largest conglomerates, and analyze their strategies. "The 1999-2000 edition of our `500 Largest Companies' issue will clearly beat the local rankings off the presses, and will provide hard-to-get regional data and analysis that has traditionally made the issue an invaluable resource that business leaders across Latin America, and those elsewhere who do business in the region, will keep at their desks year-around," said David Taggart, Publisher of AmericaEconomia, a Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance & Company publication. He also noted that since growing to a bi-monthly publication in both Spanish Spanish, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, issuing from Spanish Lake, S Ont., Canada, NW of Sudbury, and flowing generally S through Biskotasi and Agnew lakes to Lake Huron opposite Manitoulin island. There are several hydroelectric stations on the river. and Portuguese last year, the magazine has significantly increased its editorial staff, established new news bureaus throughout the region, and plans to flex its editorial muscles in producing a number of new special features in coming months, including spotlighting new products, producing quarterly corporate reports, and compiling com·pile tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles 1. To gather into a single book. 2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: a most competitive companies ranking. Companies interested in advertising in the 500 Issue should contact the AmericaEconomia Advertising Department in Miami at 305/444-7430. The deadline for reserving advertising space in the issue is June 23. |
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