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 Antioquia () is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea. Most of its territory is mountainous with some valleys, much of which is part o ...

. 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 that dominated the Japanese economy in the second half of the 20th century. In the legal sense, it is a type of business group that is in a loosely organized al ...

''. It is "controlled" by four main companies: Bancolombia (banking), Grupo Argos (cement, power & infrastructure), Grupo Sura (insurance, financial), and Grupo Nutresa (processed food). The group, through these companies, has 10,000

shareholder A shareholder (in the United States often referred to as stockholder) of corporate stock refers to an individual or legal entity (such as another corporation, a body politic, a trust or partnership) that is registered by the corporation as the ...

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

gross domestic product Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the total market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is often used to measure the economic performanc ...

. On January 15, 2023, the

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reported: 'Regulators are investigating whether the GEA is acting as an “economic group”.'

Companies

* Bancolombia * Inversiones Nutresa :*

Nutresa Grupo Nutresa S.A. (in English language, English: Nutresa Group), formerly Grupo Nacional de Chocolates S.A. (in English language, English: Chocolate National Group S.A.) Retrieved 2011. is a Colombian multinational corporation, multinational fo ...

:* 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 A meal is an occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes consumption of food. The English names used for specific meals vary, depending on the speaker's culture, the time of day, or the size of the meal. A meal is different from a ...

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. Pasta was originally only made with durum, although ...

Rica Rondo Rica may refer to: Organizations *Rica Hotels, a chain of approx. 90 hotels located in Norway and Sweden, including: **Grand Hotel (Oslo) **Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica **Rica Hotel, Kungsgatan **Rica Seilet Hotel (Molde) **Rica Talk Hotel (Älv ...

:* Frigorífico Suizo :*

La Bastilla LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States of America. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note *"L.A.", a song by Elliott Smi ...

:* Hermo de Venezuela :* Frigorífico Continental :* Tecniagro :* Comarrico * Fabricato * Inversiones Argos ** Cementos Argos ** Cementos Colón **

Corp. Incem A corporation or body corporate is an individual or a group of people, such as an association or company, that has been authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of sta ...

Port Royal Port Royal () was a town located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest and most prosperous city in the Caribbean, functioning as the cen ...

CINA Cina, Cinà or CINA may refer to: People * Chinas or Chīnaḥ (Sanskrit चीन (cīna)), a people mentioned in ancient Indian literature from the first millennium BC *Kapitan Cina, a high-ranking government position in the civil administration ...

** Savannah Cement ** Southern Star Concrete, Inc. **

Concrete Express Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bound together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time. It is the second-most-used substance (after water), the most–widely used building material, and the most-manufactur ...

Ready Mixed Concrete Ready-mix concrete (RMC) is concrete that is manufactured in a batch plant, according to each specific job requirement, then delivered to the job site "ready to use". There are two types with the first being the barrel truck or in–trans ...

** Celsia * Grupo Sura ** Seguros SURA formerly Compañía Suramericana de Seguros ** Compañía Suramericana de Seguros de Vida ** Interoceánica de Seguros **

EPS SURA An extended play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 15 to 30 minutes. An EP is usually less cohesive ...

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 Centro may refer to: Places Brazil *Centro, Santa Maria, a neighborhood in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Centro, Porto Alegre, a neighborhood of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Centro (Duque de Caxias), a neighborhood of Du ...

** 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 ...

References

Conglomerate companies of Colombia {{colombia-stub