(MENAFNEditorial) iCrowdNewswire - Sep 4, 2018
Colombia is presented as a leading logistics hub in America and is located in the sight of recognized multinationals seeking a strategic location of its production and service centres.
COLOMBIA (3 September of 2018).The Colombian market is becoming more attractive to businesses and investors of the segment TI who coincide in highlighting the competitiveness and the quality of practitioners, as well as the strategic location, legal guarantees and Government support for the development of the sector.
Add spots as the company of Silicon Valley, June, which establishes its first operation of identification of identities in Latin America in the establishment of the service center of the giant e-commerce Amazon from Bogota, Barranquilla other recent movements of technology firms that have moved some operations of continental and global impact to be administered from Colombia.
Among new investments is the center of high-tech careers in Medellin, which will focus on the training of professionals and in the development of technologies in four specific areas: artificial intelligence, robotics of processes, machine learning and analytical. Also the imminent arrival of the American firm of inbound marketing, Hubspot, which, in the third quarter of this year, will open its headquarters for Latin America in Bogota.
The Luxembourg company Etix Everywhere will build in the city of Cali, West of the Colombian territory, the first data center Tier IV of the country located outside Bogota, in the complex of the first free-trade zone of Colombia led by the Uruguayan services Zonamerica.
"The arrival of high impact investment that promotes the development of the TI, sector contributes to give firm steps towards the strengthening of a diverse, creative and innovative economy, which takes advantage of and develops our human resource and talent" says Flavia Santoro, President of ProColombia.
It industry booming
ProColombia calculations indicate that about 12% of the projects of foreign investment corresponds to services and software business.
Currently the segment you represents 1.57% of GDP in 2016 was 0.6%. The growth of the sector is also reflected in sales which, in 2017, surpassed the $ 13,500 million in the local market. Exports that last year generated turnover of US$ 244 million, are taking strength to markets like Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, United States and Spain.
According to ProColombia sources and supports FDI Markets, FDI projects in the creative industries sector, software and you generated investments of more than $1,850 million in the last decade.
About ProColombia
Entity that is responsible for the promotion of the exports of energy non-mining goods and services in markets with potential, the expansion of the Colombian companies, the attraction of foreign direct investment to Colombia, the positioning of the country as a tourist destination for holidays and meetings and brand country. More information: http://www.procolombia.co
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