The ''Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño'' (GEA, Business Group of Antioquia) also known as ''Sindicato Antioqueño'', is a Colombian conglomerate composed by around 125 companies, most of them based in

Antioquia Department ) , anthem = Himno de Antioquia , image_map = Antioquia in Colombia (mainland).svg , map_alt = , map_caption = Antioquia shown in red , image_ma ...

. Though, legally speaking, such an entity does not exist, it is commonly regarded as the first Colombian ''

keiretsu A is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. In the legal sense, it is a type of informal business group that are loosely organized alliances within the social world of Japan's business community. The ''ke ...

''. It is "controlled" by four main companies:

Bancolombia Bancolombia S.A. (also known as Grupo Bancolombia; formerly: Banco de Colombia) is a full-service financial institution that provides financial products and services in Colombia, Panama, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands The Ca ...

(banking),

Grupo Argos Grupo Argos S.A is a Colombian conglomerate with large investments in the cement and energy industries. Its cement company Argos has operations in Colombia, the United States, Panamá, Honduras and the Caribbean. Celsia, its energy company, owns ...

(cement, power & infrastructure),

Grupo Sura Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana is a multilatin company founded in 1945 in Colombia, which is listed on the Colombia Stock Exchange (BVC) and is enrolled in the ADR – Level I program in the United States. It is also the only Latin American e ...

(insurance, financial), and

Grupo Nutresa Grupo Nutresa (in English: Nutresa Group), formerly Grupo Nacional de Chocolates S.A.(in English: Chocolate National Group S.A.) Retrieved 2011. is a food-processing conglomerate headquartered in Medellín, Colombia. The group's principal acti ...

(processed food). The group, through these companies, has 10,000

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s. GEA's 2007 income amounts to 5.5% of Colombia's

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Companies

* Inversiones Nutresa :* Nutresa :* Compañía Nacional de Chocolates :* Compañía Nacional De Chocolates de Perú S.A. :* Compañía de Galletas Noel :* Compañía de Galletas Pozuelo D.C.R. :* Industrias de Alimentos Zenú :* Dulces de Colombia :* Colcafé :* Meals de Colombia :*

Pastas Doria Pasta (, ; ) is a type of food typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or other shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. Rice flour, or legumes such as beans or lentils, are som ...

:* Rica Rondo :* Frigorífico Suizo :* La Bastilla :* Hermo de Venezuela :* Frigorífico Continental :* Tecniagro :* Comarrico * Fabricato *

Inversiones Argos Grupo Argos S.A is a Colombian conglomerate with large investments in the cement and energy industries. Its cement company Argos has operations in Colombia, the United States, Panamá, Honduras and the Caribbean. Celsia, its energy company, owns ...

Cementos Argos Grupo Argos S.A is a Colombian conglomerate with large investments in the cement and energy industries. Its cement company Argos has operations in Colombia, the United States, Panamá, Honduras and the Caribbean. Celsia, its energy company, owns ...

** Cementos Colón ** Corp. Incem **

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** CINA ** Savannah Cement **

Southern Star Concrete, Inc. Southern Star Concrete, Inc. or simply Southern Star is a concrete supply business headquartered in Irving, Texas. Southern Star is owned by Cementos Argos S.A., the largest cement producer in Colombia, South America. Cementos Argos is subsidia ...

** Concrete Express ** Ready Mixed Concrete ** Celsia *

** Seguros SURA formerly Compañía Suramericana de Seguros ** Compañía Suramericana de Seguros de Vida ** Interoceánica de Seguros ** EPS SURA formerly Susalud ** ARP SURA formerly Suratep ** Seriauto ** Administradora de Fondos de Inversión Suramericana ** Gerencia Prestación servicios de Salud ** IPS Punto de Salud, IPS Punto de Vista, AVANCE, Salud en Casa ** Compañía Suramericana de Capitalización ** Centro para los Trabajadores CPT ** Interoceanica de seguros ** Tipiel S.A. * Internacional Ejecutiva de Aviación

Former subsidiaries

Almacenes Éxito Éxito is a Colombian supermarket chain owned by Grupo Éxito and headquartered in Medellín, Colombia. It was founded in Envigado in the year 1949, by Gustavo Toro Quintero and now is one of the largest supermarket companies in the country, and h ...

References

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