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 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.

• 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.