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El Valle del Cauca continúa atrayendo inversión extranjera en el 2023 - Valle del Cauca continues attracting foreign investment in 2023

Valle del Cauca continues attracting foreign investment in 2023

• Learn about the companies that have recently announced their arrival to this Colombian region, and those confirming their plans for expansion. Foreign direct investment in Valle del Cauca continues adding positive figures for the…
Participamos en el lanzamiento de Empleatura - We joined in the launch of Empleatura

We joined in the launch of Empleatura

• 250 young people from Buenaventura will participate in technical training processes, with the support of the Chamber of Commerce of Buenaventura, the Inter-American Development Bank, ProPacifico – through its ‘Compromiso Valle’ (Valle Commitment) initiative,…
La inversión extranjera tuvo nuevamente cifras históricas en el Valle del Cauca - In 2022, foreign investment reached record figures again in Valle del Cauca

In 2022, foreign investment reached record figures again in Valle del Cauca

• Invest Pacific joined 23 multinational companies, 60% plus of them being brand new to the area. The rest expanded their operations, thus strengthening investment trust. More investment and job creation initiatives are expected for…
El Valle del Cauca: foco de expansión de las operaciones extranjeras - Valle del Cauca: heart of expansion for foreign operations

Valle del Cauca: heart of the expansion of foreign operations

• Learn what are the logistics investment projects, also manufacturing production for exports and technological operations that are attracting investments in the south west of Colombia. Valle del Cauca continues to be the epicenter for…
El Valle del Cauca continúa conquistando inversión extranjera en 2022 / Valle del Cauca continues to attract FDI (foreign direct investment) in 2022

Valle del Cauca continues to attract FDI (foreign direct investment) in 2022

The investment promotion agency in Valle del Cauca, Invest Pacific, forecasts a favorable environment for attracting new FDI initiatives in 2022, driven by new opportunities, competitive advantages offered by the region and to the growing…
In 2021, foreign and national investment increased in Valle del Cauca

In 2021, foreign and national investment increased in Valle del Cauca

• In total, there were 20 investment projects supported by Invest Pacific that chose this region for the establishment and growth of their operations in 2021 Valle del Cauca closed 2021 with a positive balance…
Foreign companies committed to Palmira's development

Foreign companies committed to Palmira’s development

• Palmira is one of the 18 municipalities where foreign direct investment has been established in the geographical valley of the Cauca River. Palmira is one of the Valle del Cauca’s cities that has gathered…
Cali obtains USD $7 million in foreign investment in 2020 for its economic revival

Cali obtains USD $7 million in foreign investment in 2020 for its economic revival

Thanks to a strategic alliance between Invest Pacific and the Mayor’s office of Cali, through the Secretary of Economic Development, the city has managed to materialize the arrival of 10 foreign companies that will generate…
Nearshoring to Valle del Cauca, an opportunity for US companies looking to relocate

Nearshoring to Valle del Cauca, an opportunity for US companies looking to relocate

• Learn about the investment and growth opportunities that this Colombian Pacific region offers to assure supply chains for US companies which are currently highly dependent on production in China. • Metalworking, Electrical Equipment, Pharmaceutical…
Connect with the bilingual job opportunities in the region

Connect with the bilingual job opportunities in the region

Invest Pacific, the regional Investment Promotion Agency in Valle del Cauca, invites all the people from Cali and Valle del Cauca who are fluent in English and who are looking for a job opportunity, to…
Almost 80% of the multinational companies in el Valle are still operating and preserving employment

Almost 80% of the multinational companies in Valle del Cauca are still operating and preserving employment

• A survey done by Invest Pacific to 85 foreign companies, both national and foreign capital, settled in Cali and in other towns of Valle del Cauca, show that 70% of these companies expect their…
Analysis Invest Pacific

Foreign Investment: making a difference in the midst of the crisis

Beyond the reinvention and new order predicted by many experts, the challenges that the world economy present today in terms of employment generation, conservation of the business network, fixed capital and social security formation, have…
Settled investors ratify Colombia as an investment destination

Settled investors ratify Colombia as an investment destination

• A total of 229 foreign companies that operate in the country were surveyed by the Regional Investment Promotion Agencies -including Invest Pacific- and ProColombia regarding the expectations of their operations both nationally and in…

Good practices and initiatives of the foreign capital companies in Valle del Cauca

Through the message ‘#WeAreStillConnected for the region’, the Investment Promotion Agency, Invest Pacific, supports the foreign capital companies with their requirements in the midst of the impacts generated by the pandemic. In addition, from its…

Invest Pacific continues to stay connected with the investment, seeking to generate more jobs for the region

• The regional Agency plans to reach 13 foreign direct investment projects at the end of 2020, estimating the creation of 1,300 new jobs for Valle del Cauca that can contribute to overcome the crisis…

We are still connected to attract more investment to Cali and Valle del Cauca

On Wednesday, March 25th, it started to take place the preventive quarantine measure decreed by the National Government, headed by the President Iván Duque , which will go into effect until April 12th at midnight,…
Analysis Invest Pacific

Nearshoring, the best opportunity on the other side of the Pacific

Accelerated by the effects of Covid-19 and the trade war, the relocation of American companies that plan to leave China, is a process that Colombia is preparing to take advantage of to attract foreign direct…

We are with our investors

Dear investor, At Invest Pacific we want to send a message of solidarity and optimism given the difficult circumstances that our country and region are going through due to the effects of Covid-19. We are…

Preventing measures and contact channels to tend foreign investors

As a result of the health emergency declared by the Colombian government to mitigate the spread of Coronavirus (COVID19) Invest Pacific –Valle del Cauca’s Investment Promotion Agency- hereby informs that preventive actions have been taken…

Colombia goes for more Asian investments

On a tour through China and Japan, Invest Pacific along with other regional investment promotion agencies, Mincit, and ProColombia present the export, tourism and investment potential of Colombia and its regions. From 21 to 30…

Caicedonia, one of the ZOMAC municipalities most committed with attracting foreign investment

In order to keep articulating efforts among the public and private sector, that enable the promotion of agricultural vocation and all the competitive advantages for growth and development of the many municipalities of the region,…

European entrepreneurs get connected to Valle del Cauca’s investing potential

A tour through European countries was carried out, aiming to make foreign investment opportunities known to Colombian regions, with the participation of Invest Pacific, and Invest in Bogota, and organized by Procolombia and Santander Bank…

Invest Pacific promotes Valle del Cauca as an investment destination to european countries

Valle del Cauca is one of Colombia’s most competitive regions, due its economic structure robustness, strategic position to respond to international markets, the presence of several foreign investment companies, the high levels of basic infrastructure,…

Invest Pacific promotes the region in three mexican cities

Starting today and until May 11th Invest Pacific will enter the last stage of the tour in the countries of the Pacific Alliance, organized by Procolombia where different investment agencies from the country will participate.…

The first part of the Invest Pacific tour on the Pacific Alliance ends

The first part of the national promotional tour with the participation of Invest Pacific reaches an end with great opportunities for Valle del Cauca. Perú was the first visited country out of the countries from…

Invest Pacific will promote investment in the Pacific Alliance countries

Since April 17th Invest Pacific and other foreign investment and promotion agencies will visit Chile, Perú and México, countries that are part of the Pacific Alliance and that are key for continuing strengthening Colombia’s development,…

PACIFIC FREE TRADE ZONE AND PALMIRA LOOKING FOR JOINT SOLUTIONS

To facilitate passengers’ transportation from the Pacific Free Trade Zone to Palmira, to check payments done by this Free Trade Zone to the city to cover public lighting, tax incentives for the companies settled in…

CALI AIMS TO ATTRACT FOREIGN INVESTMENT

“We must create the best environment possible for foreign investment to become a fact; we need to work from the security, economic and social environment stand point.  As long as these three aspects are functional,…

FOREIGN COMPANIES HAVE INVESTED MORE THAN USD$150 MILLION DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS IN PALMIRA: INVEST PACIFIC

(January 20th, 2016) the Director of Invest Pacific and the Mayor of Ciudad de las Palmas met in order to find out the number of foreign companies that entered Palmira during the last five years,…

The Urban Legend of theExodus of Multinationals from Valle del Cauca

After the closing of its Michelin and Bayer plants, the myth of the “Exodus of Multinational from Valle del Cauca ” began to circulate. This urban legend is riddled with easy-to-poke-holes-in fallacies that only serve…