Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo is a part of the Toronto-based Four Seasons Luxury Hotels and Resorts. Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica, the only Four Seasons Resort in Central America, also offers Costa Rica's premier golf course according to Golf Digest. Completed in 2003, Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica has more than 54.000 squared meters of construction with an approximate cost of $100.000.000.
Best Western International, Inc. is one of the most popular hotel chains in the World, with more than 4000 hotels in 80 countries. In Costa Rica, there are three Best Western hotels operated by Grupo Marta: San José Downtown, Irazú Hotel & Casino and Jacó Beach Resort.
Hampton Inn and Suites is an international hotel chain. In Costa Rica, Grupo Marta operates Hampton Inn & Suites called Airport San José, located in Alajuela.
St. Jude Medical is a transnational company dedicated to manufacture medical devices for Cardiac resynchronization, atrial fibrillation, cardiac surgery, cardiology and neuromodulation. It established in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, St. Jude Medical maintains operations and production in 20 countries and, in the year 2009, is established in Costa Rica in order to expand its production of medical devices.
Marriott Hotels & Resorts is Marriott International's brand of full service hotels and resorts. The company, based in Washington D.C., has more than 482 hotels and resorts operating under the brand. In Costa Rica, there are 5 hotels and resorts of this chain.
Group Marta INC. is the hotel, restaurants and tourism management company of great prestige in Costa Rica. It start was on 1960 with the opening of Motel Bemo in Sabana Norte. Currently, Group Marta INC. is structured in 4 main divisions: Support Center, Hotels, Restaurants and inbound Tourism. The first one offers to all the hotels and restaurants of the group the finance, information and marketing management support necessary for its adequate operation; the hotel division groups the hotels Best Western Irazú, Jacó Beach Resort and San José Downtown, Hampton Inn & Suites and Holiday Inn Express; the restaurant division is the concessionaire of the Denny´s brand in Costa Rica; and the tourism division handles the tourism operator Gray Line Tours.
Hospira is a global specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company driven by its vision of Advancing Wellness™. Bringing proven leadership and experience, Hospira provides solutions to help improve the productivity, safety and effectiveness of patient care. It operates in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama and Dominican Republic. Costa Rica has the only plant in all Latin America and one of the biggest worldwide.
Moog Medical Devices is the medical division of Moog Inc., worldwide designer, manufacturer, and integrator of precision motion control products and systems, such as: systems control aircraft, satellites and space vehicles, launch vehicles, missiles, industrial machinery, wind energy, marine applications, and medical equipment. In 2010, Moog Medical Devices began operations in Costa Rica, from where it exports serum infusion and irrigation pumps to USA and, eventually, Europe and Asia.
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Hilton Hotels & Resorts (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is an international chain of full-service hotels and resorts founded by Conrad Hilton and now owned by the Hilton Worldwide.
Outback Steakhouse is a United States-based casual dining restaurant chain based in Tampa, Florida with over 900 locations in 23 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
The Coca-Cola Company is a beverage company, manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in 1886.
BAC is a financial network that began in 1952 in Nicaragua. It was established in Costa Rica in 1974 and 13 years later acquired the Bank of San José. Today, BAC | Credomatic Network is recognized as the largest credit card operator in Central America.
Aldesa is one of the largest institutions of the Costa Rican stock market. Since its foundation, in 1968, has been a solid and trustworthy firm which offers administration and busyness growth advising.
Former Countrywide Financial Corporation, today part of Bank of America, is a global diversified financial services provider, comprised of over 20 different divisions and companies, several of which are leaders in their industries. In 2007, Countrywide began operating in Costa Rica and established in Zona Franca del Este.
In the late 60’s, Firestone Industries began operations in Costa Rica. As today, the company fabricates over 12,000 tires per day and has more than 1,000 employees.
Caterpillar Inc. is an American company based in Peoria, Illinois. Carterpillar, also known as 'CAT', designs, manufactures, markets and sells machinery and engines. Since 1951, MATRA has represented Caterpillar in Costa Rica.
Motorola, Inc. is an American, multinational, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, and also designs and sells wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers.
3M Company, formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is an American multinational corporation based in Maplewood, Minnesota. With over 76,000 employees, they produce over 55,000 products. 3M has operations in more than 60 countries and their products are available for purchase through distributors and retailers in more than 200 countries. In Costa Rica, 3M began operations in 1973.
Payless is the largest footwear retailer in the United States. Today, the company operates over 5,000 footwear stores worldwide. In Costa Rica, Payless began operations in 2000 and since then the company has opened 25 stores and has expanding plans.
Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the largest energy company and the second largest company in the world measured by revenues. It has operations in over 90 countries, produces around 3.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and has 44,000 service stations worldwide. Shell began its operations in Costa Rica in 1992. Today they are mainly involved in the marketing, sale and distribution of fuels and lubricants in the country.
Denny's is a full-service coffee shop/family restaurant chain. It operates over 1,700 restaurants in the United States (including Puerto Rico), Canada, Curaçao, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Oman, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates. In Costa Rica, Grupo Marta has Denny´s franchise concession and operates both Denny´s restaurants in Costa Rica.
AUTO MERCADO is a Costa Rican supermarket chain. In 1970, the first Auto Mercado opened; as today Auto Mercado has twelve stores located in San José, Heredia, Guanacaste and Central Pacific.
PriceSmart, Inc. is the largest operator of membership warehouse clubs in Central America and the Caribbean. PriceSmart has over 1 million cardholders at 27 owned and operated warehouse clubs in 11 countries. In Costa Rica, PriceSmart has 5 stores.
Hipermás is a chain of superstores which is part of the Wal-mart Costa Rica group. In 1998, the first Hipermás opened. Today, there six locations, each with over 6,000 squared meters dedicated to sales which offers between 50,000 and 60,000 products including categories that traditionally are not found in a supermarket, such as hardware store, pharmacy, appliances, electronics, paintings, office supplies, jewelry store, computers and furniture, among others.
ArcelorMittal is the largest steel company worldwide, with over 310.000 employs in more than 60 countries. The company is considered the only real global steel producer. ArcelorMittal Costa Rica began established in San José in 1962 and today is the business leader in the fabrication of laminated steel products in the country.
Citigroup Inc. (branded Citi) is a major American financial services company based in New York City. Citi began approximately 1812 under the name City Bank ok New York. In 1998, Citicorp merged with Travelers Group to form one of the greatest bank holding companies.
Citi was the first foreign bank to establish operations in Costa Rica in 1968. Since then, it has offered financial services to the country's corporate market. After the integration with Banco Uno and Banco Cuscatlán in the region, Citi has customer banking and credit card services in the local market.
Altos de Palermo is a residential condominium located in San Pablo of Heredia, a prestigious area with privileged climate and multiple accesses. Altos de Palermo has over 15 hectares and offers four types of condominiums. Also, Palermo reserved an extra external area for commercial establishments for residents use.
Coyol Free Zone is one of the largest and the most modern high-tech business park in Central America. Located in the province of Alajuela, Costa Rica, the park is spread over 107 hectares (246 acres) of prime real estate and already boasts 400,000 square meters (4,305,000 sf) of world-class facilities.
Global Park is a mixed Free Zone & Business Park that offers solutions for high tech manufacturing facilities in the electronic and medical device sector and service companies. The Park was designed and developed considering the highest market standards in terms of quality, infrastructure and services, and in full compliance with international codes and regulations.
Grupo Financiero Improsa SA is a Costa Rica-based holding company which is principally engaged in the financial sector. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Improsa Servicios Internacionales SA, the Company has operations established in Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua and Honduras.
Península de Papagayo is a tourist and real state development which began in 1999, operated by Ecodesarrollo Papagayo S. A. The company is one of the 23 concessionaries of “Polo Turístico Golfo Papayo” (PTGP). PTGP is a government development supervised by the Costa Rican Institute of Tourism (ICT).
Purdy Motor S.A. was founded in 1957 and today is recognized as one of the most important businesses in la car industry in Costa Rica. This corporate group is dedicated exclusively to sale and resale of Grupo Toyota´s brands (Toyota, Lexus, Daiharsu and Hino).
Tribu DDB is a well known Central American advertising agency. It is part of DDB Worldwide, the world’s most influential advertising network. Tribu DDB began in Costa Rica under the name of Consumer Publicidad, as today it is known as the best agency in the country and at the recent Volcán Festival was named the 2010 Agency of the Year by the Association of Advertising Agencies of Costa Rica, ASCAP.
Zona Franca del Este distinguished as a modern and innovative Free Zone and Business Park, is oriented exclusively to service-providing companies such as Customer Management Centers (CMC) and Business Process Operations (BPO).
Panamá Pacifico is a mixed-use real estate development in Panamá. The project has been in development for over a year by London & Regional Panamá in partnership with the Colombian banker Jaime Gilinski.
Panama Pacifico is a mixed-use real estate development in Panama. The project has been in development for over a year by London & Regional Panamá in partnership with the Colombian banker Jaime Gilinski.
The Universidad Latina of Costa Rica is the biggest private university in the country and part of Laureate International Universities. As today Universidad Latina has two main campus and 10 regional locations.
D Cemento, also known as Cementos David, is a new cement company in Costa Rica. In 2009 Cementos David began operation in its new cement plant located in San Rafael, Alajuela.
