Foreign Direct Investment Success Cases

Creative Industries

Mediapro (Spain. 2019)

 
Description: Media Pro has experienced significant growth in three main lines of business: rights management, audiovisual services, and content production, and is considered the leading independent production company throughout the entire audiovisual value chain with operations worldwide through its 55 offices distributed across 35 countries on four continents.
 

 Labodigtal (Mexico. 2017)

Description: In 2006 Labodigital was founded in México city. It has been expanding its offices to the United States, Colombia, Argentina and it has created strategic alliances with companies from Center and South America. It is considered one of the leading companies in the audiovisual sector in Latinamerica for providing clients with a concept they call "From rec to play" in which they offer support in the different stages of an audiovisual project from production to postproduction, distribution, and exhibition. 

Among its allies in the content, production are MGM, Netflix, HBO, Universal, and others. 

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GoDigital Media Group (the United States. 2017)

Description: American media and technology company, specialized in the digital distribution of music content. It has a presence in countries like Sir Lanka, Bielorrusia, Corea, and Colombia. It is the bridge between more than 500 artists and different music platforms of distribution and reproduction such as Spotify, Deezer, and Youtube. Among its record labels are Pina Records, White Lion, and Mr.305, Pitbull's record label and artist as Diamante Eléctrico, winner band of a Latin Grammy for Best Rock Album. 

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Infrastructure

Mott Macdonald (the United Kingdom. 2017)

 
Description: Global consultants focused on engineering, management and project development in which they offer sustainable solutions to face today's challenges. It has established offices in 150 countries, where they offer services to improve economic development, better investment return, and better environmental and social results. 
 
 

Systra (France. 2017)

 
Description: Engineering and consulting company focused on the areas of urban and rail transport. Systra has become a benchmark worldwide in the development of railway projects, including initiatives involving conventional trains, high-speed trains, subway systems, and trams.

 

Technology-based services

Almundo (Canada. 2018)

Description: Travel company with regional presence, continues to expand its technology team with the establishment of an IT Development Center in Colombia. Aiming to convert Almundo into a global brand and becoming a technology company that offers tourism services, the company and the sector decided to extend its team out of their country.

 

Belatrix (Argentina. 2017)

 

Description: Argentinean company, with more than 20 years of experience in software product development services. It has offices in Argentina, Peru, and Colombia, where they provide outsourcing and nearshore services to different companies in the United States and the United Kingdom. It was recognized in 2015 as a “new age software product engineering service provider” by the independent research company, Horses for Sources.


Manufacture

Decathlon (France. 2017)

Description: It is a French company, recognized for offering quality products at competitive prices, in order to diversify the offer in sports that can not be easily found in the local market; such as rugby, paddle, tennis, fishing, cycling, ping-pong, camping, and other 60 different practices. Their mission is to make sports accessible to the most amount of people.

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H&M (Sweden. 2017)
 

Description: It is a global fashion and design company, focused on producing and commercializing clothes at low costs with the best possible quality. Since 1947 it has been expanding by creating new brands such as H&M Home, COS, & Other Stories, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday and ARKET.

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Life Sciences

Inkemia (Spain. 2017)


Description: Spanish multinational, specialized in the generation and exploitation of knowledge-based in investigation and innovation for the development of new products, processes, services and technologies for the chemistry, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, cosmetic, nutraceutical, and food industry. 

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Gaes (Spain. 2017)

Description: It is considered the leading multinational company in the auditive correction sector in Spain. It has been designing, producing, distributing and commercializing earphones for more than 60 years,  to better the quality life of clients.

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Others

Rockstart (Netherlands. 2017)

Description: Was founded in 2011 in Amsterdam with the objective to provide startups market access, capital, experience, and community. Since then, has become the specialist in building entire ecosystems around specific domains, such as Digital Health, Smart Energy, and Artificial Intelligence.

 

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WeWork (the United States. 2017)

Descripción: American company, that has redefined the concept of work by focusing its services on people. Part of its add value is offering real state, design, construction, architecture and operation services that can help companies create environments that can increase productivity, spur innovation and encourage collaboration with others. Some of the spaces they offer are standard, equipped with WeWork designs and services and personalized where they supply the client's needs, from a laboratory to a floor, full of production studios.