The Minister of Foreign Trade, Alexander Mora and the Managing Director of CINDE, Jorge Sequeira carry an agenda of bilateral meetings with Mexican companies with operations in the country or investment potential.

Meetings take place this Tuesday December 9th and will join the investment promotion agenda led by the President of the Republic, Luis Guillermo Solis to arrive Wednesday morning from Veracruz to Mexico City.


Mexico, December 9, 2014. The Minister of Foreign Trade, Alexander Mora and Jorge Sequeira, Managing Director of the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE), carried today an agenda of six bilateral meetings with Mexican entrepreneurs and potential investors in order to show our country as a strategic destination for investment projects. Companies convened belong to the services, aerospace, telecommunications and energy sectors.

According to the Minister of Foreign Trade, Alexander Mora, "we must continue to further strengthen Mexican investment, attracting both new companies that can assess the country as a base for their operations, as well as leading companies already established in Costa Rica in diverse sectors. Similarly, continue promoting exports of goods and services from Costa Rica to the Mexican market. we are committed to achieving these goals that result in the generation of more quality jobs for the Costa Rican people."

For its part, the Managing Director of CINDE, Jorge Sequeira said that "the meetings held allow the identification of potential and interesting opportunities to increase the presence of Mexican companies in Costa Rica. Undoubtedly Mexico is a market of great potential in which CINDE has been working and wants to continue doing it. "

On Wednesday, the investment promotion activities will continue with the participation of the President of the Republic, Luis Guillermo Solis, who is participating in the Ibero-American Summit in Veracruz and will arrive in the early morning to the Federal District.

San José. 1 December 2014. The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE), received an honorable mention for its work in attracting investment in the country and its commitment to creating quality jobs thanks to the arrival of multinational companies.

The President of CINDE, José Rossi and the Managing Director of CINDE, Jorge Sequeira, received recognition during the Entrepreneur of the Year award by the weekly journal El Financiero.

San Jose, Costa Rica, November 24, 2014. CINDE Managing Director, Jorge Sequeira, participated as a panelist in the Forum: Building an Industrial Policy for Costa Rica, organized by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce of Costa Rica, that served as a scenery for discussion, analysis and propositions of new ideas that allow to develop a national policy for the industrial sector of the country.

Government enables conditions for starting the process and procedures to drive advances in government trust fund that would allow early development of the new mega terminal for container transshipment by the company America's Gateway Development Corporation (AMEGA LTDA) in Moin.

Global wireless leader – and one of the largest multinational companies in Latin America – to create 150 professional services jobs in San José.

• Professionals in Electronic Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical and Systems Engineering will be hired in the coming months.

• Software development engineers are part of the new and specialized teams. 
• Company currently employs over 2,100 associates in the country.
• Staff provides worldwide support services for Amazon customers.
San José, Costa Rica.  October 8th, 2014 – Amazon Support Services in Costa Rica (NASDAQ: AMZN) today inaugurates its fourth service center and announces 1000 new jobs at its offices located in Calle Blancos and Lagunilla. The Earth’s most customer centric company offers seasonal jobs and permanent positions with open dress code, paid training, transportation, doctor on site, plus others.
The new operation comes as part of the $19,000,000 accumulated investment by 2014 and spreads the company’s footprint to 28,522 m2 including the four service centers in the country.
“The talent of the Costa Rican people keeps making the difference in the operations of high technology services and that is exactly what enables more opportunities for companies to continue investing in the country. This demonstrates we are highly competitive and that our country is one of the safest places to invest. We are grateful to Amazon for their trust in Costa Rica and hope that this great news will translate into high quality jobs for hundreds of Costa Ricans in the following months” stated Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera, President of the Republic, who attended the inauguration. “We are excited to expand our operations in the San Jose community, creating more than 1,000 full-time jobs in the fields of technology, innovation and customer service,” said Scott Kubicki, Vice President, Worldwide Seller Support. “We appreciate national and local elected leaders who have supported Amazon’s arrival and expansion in Costa Rica and we look forward to bringing even more jobs and investments to the area.”
Amazon currently employs over 2,100 people and has diversified its services with the recent incorporation of software development engineers to its Seller Support Center, located in the building inaugurated with the participation of the President of the Republic, Luis Guillermo Solis.
“We are not only creating quality jobs for Costa Rican talent but also looking forward to developing leadership for the region and worldwide”, said Alejandro Filloy, General Manager of Amazon Costa Rica. “What we want is to strengthen those extraordinary and varied skills to project their talent through Amazon’s presence around the globe while diversifying services due the specialization”.
Amazon offers customer service positions, human resources and administrative jobs, as well as management posts.  At this time, over 1000 new jobs are available for customer service associates with language skills in English, Portuguese and Italian.
Amazon opened its first customer service center in Costa Rica in October 2008 and has continued to grow.  Since that time, its associates have offered support to millions of customers and sellers in the United States, Spain, Mexico and Brazil.
With the company´s expansion and the ongoing hiring of staff at its other sites, Amazon expects to employ more than 3,000 persons in Costa Rica by the end of 2014. Interested persons may visit www.amazon.com/jobs or call 2562-9111 for further information.
About Amazon Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The company is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire phone, Fire tablets, and Fire TV are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon.

• Company will hire 300 people for new financial services division.
• Announcement is given under the President's visit in New York.

• Costa Rican team has developed one-of-a-kind technology in the market for breast implants.
• Company expects creation of 100 new jobs in the medium term.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica., Sept. 5, 2014. During a visit to the medical device manufacturing plant of the company Establishment Labs in Coyol de Alajuela, Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis, accompanied by the general director of the Costa Rican Development Initiatives Coalition (CINDE), Gabriela Llobet, were able to observe how Costa Rica's talent has become part of the international medical industry by designing, producing and marketing next generation breast implants, successfully competing in 42 countries around the world.
Under the breast implant brand Motiva Implant Matrix®, a group of Costa Ricans led by founder and general manager Juan Jose Chacon Quiros, has been successfully competing in the European and Japanese markets. They are poised to also enter an additional 7 markets - Portugal, Ireland, Poland, France, Slovakia, Morocco and Hong Kong - it was announced.
From its Costa Rican facilities, Establishment Labs is involved in every stage of the production of breast implants, including a patented radiofrequency technology. Motiva Implant Matrix® is the only implant in the world that uses built-in microchips to ensure the device's safety and access to product traceability information.
Costa Rica's President Luis Guillermo Solis underscored the importance of continuing to attract companies by means of foreign direct investment in order to create areas of action for Costa Rica's human talent.
"Establishment Labs is an example of how foreign direct investment is able to extract the best Costa Rican human talent by devising and producing in this case next generation medical equipment, and, in turn, allowing other companies to enjoy the benefits of the foreign direct investment," said the president.  The company, which began operating in 2009, has to date 70 associates, who have been responsible for the development of new technologies in the medical device industry.
Gabriela Llobet, general director of CINDE, said, "Costa Rica is known worldwide as a highly competitive seat of medical equipment manufacturing, clear proof of which are the 57 companies from the life sciences that provide jobs to some 17,200 people in our country."
Growth
Since the start-up of Establishment Lab's operations, exports have grown significantly, increasing from 6,000 implants in 2011 to 16,000 in 2013. The forecast for 2014 is to export more than 40,000 implants. The company currently exports to 42 countries, and it has trade agreements in more than 50 countries, in which health registrations are pending approval.
The increase in production can also be demonstrated by the number of associates who work in Establishment Labs. At the end of 2013, the company had 35 associates, with the number having risen to 70 today. Plans are for a second shift beginning in January 2015, which will increase the number of associates to 85. Establishment Labs has plans in the near future to increase the plant's size by 2,500 square meters and hire an additional 100 workers.

• Company will start recruiting in the coming months
• Vascular equipment will be produced by Costa Rican hands
Buford, GA, August 27 2014. Theragenics Corporation, a leader in the field of medical devices worldwide, announced that it will instal a plant in Costa Rica for the manufacturing of medical devices in the vascular area.
The company will make an initial recruitment of 50 Costa Rican professionals who will be responsible for carrying out the manufacturing processes of medical devices that will be used in worldwide.
The plant in Costa Rica will be located in El Coyol and will have an area of