Top Buisnesses In Colombia (1000 of them)

Every year Semana magazine publishes a list of Colombia´s top businesses ranked by sales. This weeks edition #1409 lists the top one thousand. Following that listing they´re broken down into the top ten in eighteen sectors such as telecomunications, automobile companies, health etc., etc. There is a separate listing of fifty banks and other listings like the twenty five that generated the most employment. Pretty interesting all told. I was surprised to see that out of a thousand companies Almacenes De Exito was number two. Carrefour came in a distant #13. And Exito was number three out of the top twenty five for generating employment in 2008 at 23,659 employees (though it´s employment rate was down from 24,808 last year). Carrefour didn´t make that list. La 14 did. It was was number 20 with 4,399 employees but also down from last year (4,593). Ranked by net profit Ecopetrol not surprisingly topped the list. Comcel was number four, Baveria was number seven but down from last year (Colombians drinking less beer?) and General motores came in at #25 but also down from last year. (At least I think that´s what “variación (%)” means on the table. ) I´ve highlighted the companies mentioned above only because most of us are familiar with them.

http://www.semana.com/noticias-economia/100-empresas-grandes-colombia/...

By Atrevido on May 4, 2009, 17:27 in Friendly Talkzone.

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