05.10.2016
- Swiss agrochemicals producer Syngenta has completed capacity expansions at key production sites in Brazil and Switzerland. Altogether, the company has invested $240 million in the...
01.12.2014
- Guatemala-based Grupo Transmerquim, (GTM), Latin America's second largest chemical distributor, has agreed to a takeover by private equity giant Advent International. The deal, for...
17.09.2014
- Marco Antonio Quirino has been named President of Univar Latin America, effective September 1. The announcement was made by David Flitman, Chief Operating Officer and President of...
06.08.2013
- Adaptation and Growth - For years, pharmaceutical companies have turned to emerging markets as low cost manufacturing destinations, utilizing lower wages and, frequently, less...
12.02.2013
- Brazil's big sugarcane mills have begun to invest in ethanol production again, after licking their wounds from years of slim margins, as an expanding crop and favorable government...
07.02.2013
- International drug companies are considering bidding for Ache Laboratorios Farmaceuticos, one of Brazil's biggest drugmakers, in a deal valuing it at several billion dollars...
25.09.2012
- Market Overview - With the euro crisis biting ever harder, the US economy still staggering under a formidable debt burden and even the Chinese growth engine sputtering, the chief...
