Worldhotels, the hotel group for independent hotels and regional hotel brands, Friday announced the addition of the Hotel Transamerica Sao Paulo in Brazil to its growing South American portfolio.
Hotel Transamerica is a 396-room resort hotel, which is part of the Grupo Alfa conglomerate. Its acquisition brings Worldhotels’ global collection to 450 affiliate properties in 250 [...]

Celesio, one of the leading international service providers in the pharmaceutical and healthcare markets, Thursday announced the acquisition of 60 per cent of the Brazilian Oncoprod Group, São Paulo. Oncoprod is the leading wholesaler for specialty pharmaceuticals in Brazil.
“The Brazilian pharma market offers many opportunities for growth,” noted Markus Pinger, Chairman of the Management Board [...]

Dynamis Energy and Planova Wednesday launched a partnership to pursue opportunities in South America’s growing waste management market.  Under the agreement, the companies will work together to build and manage Waste-to-Energy facilities in Brazil, Argentina and Peru.
“Planova’s position in the market offers both companies substantial opportunity for growth.  At every level of business and government, [...]

Affinion Group Inc. Tuesday announced that it has expanded its geographic footprint through the launch of operations in Brazil.
With the inclusion of this fast-growing market to its existing presence, the Company is able to provide innovative, best-in-class programs in consumer savings, privacy, protection and loyalty solutions to its clients in 17 countries across 4 continents.
Affinion [...]

Corvil, a provider of latency management systems for high performance trading and market data, Monday announced that Americas Trading Group (ATG) is using Corvil’s latency management system to monitor the performance of its Latin American ultra-low latency execution platform which delivers seamless access to all major Latin America markets.
ATG offers rapid access to a portfolio [...]

Baker Hughes announced Friday the opening of a new research and technology center in Rio de Janeiro designed to enable the development of technologies and solutions to unlock the full potential of deep water and pre-salt reservoirs.
Andy O’Donnell, president of the Western Hemisphere for Baker Hughes said; “Baker Hughes’ new research facility on the CENPES [...]

The Renault-Nissan Alliance announced new investments this week of at least 3.1 billion Brazilian reais (US$1.8 billion or euro1.3 billion) to expand manufacturing and sales throughout Brazil, one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
Nearly two dozen new products specifically adapted to Brazilian consumers’ needs are the cornerstone of Alliance’s aggressive “Brazilian offensive.” Renault [...]

Actavis Group CEO Claudio Albrecht Wednesday announced a major sales expansion into Latin America, among the world’s fastest-growing markets for generic drugs.
Albrecht outlined the company’s growth strategy at a meeting in South Florida with Actavis’ new Latin American business unit. The Latin America team, based in Sunrise, Florida, will target Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela [...]

British Telecommunications Plc (BT) announced a series of investments aimed at doubling its business in key Latin American countries over the next three years.
By recruiting 250 new staff, increasing its professional services capabilities, opening new centers of excellence and implementing a wide range of network and customer service improvements, BT will better support global customers [...]

The Brazilian Internet groups Bolsa de Mulher, a multi-platform digital media company for women belonging to Ideiasnet, and e-Midia, the company that holds the properties Vila Mulher, Cyber Cook and Cyber Diet, trend-setters in vertical markets, are to merge their operations.
As a result, the merger, negotiated for four months and announced for October, will position [...]