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Índice Bursátil De Capitalización
Índice Bursátil de Capitalización (IBC), also known as the General Index, is the main and most important index of Caracas Stock Exchange. It lists the 11 largest companies by capitalization and liquidity of the Venezuelan Stock Market. The index is calculated from 28 August 1997. History When the index was launched on 28 August 1997, it comprised 15 companies: Cantv, Fondo de Valores Inmobiliarios, H.L. Boulton, Corimon, Manpa, Mercantil Servicios Financieros, Electricidad de Caracas, Banco Provincial, Venepal, Mantex, Sudamtex, Sivensa, Vencemos, Mavesa, and Banco Venezolano de Crédito. Mavesa is now a subsidiary of Empresas Polar. The Uruguayan-owned textile company Sudamtex closed down. Venepal declared bankruptcy in 2004, and was subsequently nationalised, becoming "invepal". Cement company Vencemos, taken over by the Mexican Cemex CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V., known as Cemex, is a Mexican multinational building materials company headquartered in San Pedro, near Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caracas Stock Exchange
The Caracas Stock Exchange or Bolsa de Valores de Caracas (BVC) is a stock exchange located in Caracas, Venezuela. Established in 1947, BVC merged with a competitor in 1974. Operational and Legal Structure BVC is a private exchange, providing operations for the purchase and authorized sale of securities according to the Capital Marketing Laws of Venezuela. It is member of the Executive Committee of the Latin American Federation of Stock markets. At the exchange, companies emit by procedures authorized by the regulating authorities, instruments of fixed income and securities (''renta fija y de renta variable'') with the purpose of securing capital from public investors. BVC is also used as a location for trading in Bonds and other debt instruments. The legal structure prevailing in the Venezuelan capital market are the Securities Marketing Law (''la Ley de Mercado de Capitales'', enacted in 1975 and amended in 1998), Transaction Law (''Ley de Caja de Valores''), the Statutory La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuelanalysis
Venezuelanalysis is a pro-Bolivarian Revolution website Also available aZnet./ref> that describes itself as "an independent website produced by individuals who are dedicated to disseminating news and analysis about the current political situation in Venezuela." Its stated objective is "to provide a counter-narrative to mainstream media coverage of the Bolivarian Revolution, based on the perspective of leftist and grassroots movements in Venezuela." History Greg Wilpert founded the website in 2003 with Martin Sanchez, one of the founders of Aporrea.org, a pro-Chávez website, who set up the "technical side" of the site. The set up of Venezuelanalysis.com was also aided by the Venezuelan government. ''Venezuelanalysis'' describes itself as "an independent website produced by individuals who are dedicated to disseminating news and analysis about the current political situation in Venezuela." Its stated objective is "to provide a counter-narrative to mainstream media coverage of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empresas Polar
Empresas Polar is a Venezuelan corporation that started as a brewery, founded in 1941 by Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Fleury, Juan Simon Mendoza, Rafael Lujan and Karl Eggers in Antímano "La Planta de Antimano", Caracas. It is the largest and best known brewery in Venezuela, but has since long diversified to an array of industries, mostly related to food processing and packaging, also covering markets abroad. Products Original line Production of ''Cerveza Polar'', a 5% Alcohol by volume, abv lager began during the 1940s, and eventually, the company grew into the largest beer producing company in Venezuela, producing also Solera, Solera Light, Polar Light, Polar Ice, Polar Zero and Polar Zilch. The name comes from the polar bear, whose image is imprinted on the beer bottles. Maltin Polar “energia natural y full sabor”, is another of their most famous products, a Malta (soft drink), Malta, similar to a nonalcoholic ale style beer, suited for all ages. Beers The company produces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Universal (Caracas)
''El Universal'' is a major Venezuelan newspaper, headquartered in Caracas.Browning, Mark (2003),Venezuela, ''World Press Encyclopedia'' ''El Universal'' is part of the Latin American Newspaper Association (Spanish, ''Periodicals Associates Latin-Americans''), an organization of leading newspapers in Latin America. Its main rival is '' El Nacional.'' The newspaper does not disclose circulation figures. History ''El Universal'' was founded in April 1909 in Caracas by the Venezuelan poet Andrés Mata and his friend Andrés Vigas, being the oldest of current Venezuelan newspapers. Political stance and editorial opinion On the morning of 13 April 2002, when the removal of Hugo Chávez in what later came to be referred to as the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt appeared a success, the paper headlined ''¡Un Paso Adelante!'' (One Step Forward!). The newspaper was described as pro-opposition by ''The Guardian'' in 2008, by the BBC in 2013 and by Reuters numerous times betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banco Venezolano De Crédito
Venezolano de Crédito (Venezuelan of Credit, in English) ( BVCBVE is a Venezuelan bank based in Caracas, Venezuela. Founded in 1925, it is the oldest private bank. Currently, the Bank has a network of 71 branches, 55 of which are conventional, 12 are located within the premises of the most important corporations in Venezuela, and 12 are located in commercial sites, taking advantage of public traffic. The Bank also operates a branch in the Cayman Islands, British West Indies, established in 1998. History It was founded on 4 June 1925 by Henrique Pérez Dupuy. At the moment Caracas had a population of 186,000 and credit was a total innovation. BVC was authorized to issue its own money. During its first fifty years of institutional life, Venezolano de Crédito expanded its credit activities to every area of the economy associated with development and growth. The Bank fully financed the first expansion of Caracas in the area of San Agustin, and later promoted the urban development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sivensa
Sivensa (Caracas Stock Exchange, BVCSVS is the second largest Venezuelan steel producer. Sidor, which was Nationalization, nationalized in 2008, is the largest. However, Sivensa, founded in 1948, has been Venezuela's largest steel producer in the private-sector as of 2008. History The corporate documents for Siderúrgica Venezolana, S.A., were registered in October 1948. The company was started with capital of two million Venezuelan bolívar, bolívars; its largest founding shareholder was Miles Meyer Sherover (1896–1976), an Israeli-American. Other founding shareholders included Robert Turgot Brinsmade (1913–1994), an American international lawyer, Warren William Smith (1865–1956), a U.S. citizen, Oscar Augusto Machado (1890–1966), a Venezuelan, and Carlos Morales, a Venezuelan. Its founding objective was to produce steel rebar, wire rods, structures, and other steel products. The first Steel casting, cast by Sivensa was in 1950, and that year, the company reached a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantex
Mantex ( BVC) invertia.com is a Venezuela-based company active in the real estate industry. The company engages in the construction, commercialization and management of real estate properties. It also purchases, sells, and manages immovable movable goods and securities; develops, prepares, commercializes and distributes advertising means; builds and leases real estate properties; operates and manages private areas for transit and parking lots; and carries out general investments. References {{IBC companies Real estate companies of Venezuela[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantv
CANTV () is the state-run telephone and internet service provider in Venezuela. It was one of the first telephone service enterprises in the country, founded in 1930. The largest telecommunications provider in Venezuela, it was privatized in 1991, and re-nationalized in 2007 by Hugo Chavez. As of May 9, 2008, Cantv’s customer base numbered 10.1 million mobile subscribers, 5.2 million fixed telephony subscribers and 1,000,000 broadband subscribers. Origins In 1930 the "Ministerio de Fomento" of the Gómez government granted a concession to Félix A. Guerrero to build and operate a telephone network in the Federal District and the States of the Union. With fellow shareholders Manuel Pérez Abascal, an entrepreneur, and Alfredo Damirón, an attorney, they registered Compañía Anónima Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela on 20 June 1930. On 31 December it became the local operating company for the assets of the Venezuelan Telephone and Electrical Appliances Company Limited, an E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
