Fomento Económico Mexicano (FEMSA) announced on Wednesday the pricing of the sale by FEMSA itself and its subsidiaries Compañía Internacional de Bebidas and Grupo Industrial Emprex, of its entire interest in the existing issued ordinary shares of both Heineken N.V. and Heineken Holding N.V. (collectively, the Heineken Group).
Global merchandise trade is not yet showing a full recovery, considering the current reading of 95.6 on the World Trade Organization (WTO) barometer index. This barometer is a composite indicator of world trade that provides real-time information on the trajectory of merchandise trade relative to recent trends. While
Brazil led herbicide imports on a global scale in 2022, with a year-on-year increase of 165%, to US$3.264 billion, according to data from the Ministry of Economy. This result implied a record in the indicator, after having grown at an annual rate of 56% in 2021. Where were
Trends in the cross-border remittance business tend to correlate with immigration trends, notes International Money Express. They are also linked to global economic opportunities and related employment levels in certain industries such as construction, information technology, manufacturing, agriculture and hospitality, as well as other service industries. According to
Concerns about fentanyl smuggling through U.S. ports of entry have led to heightened screening of commercial and passenger vehicles coming from Mexico and accelerated the deployment of advanced imaging technologies for cargo screening, according to a U.S. congressional analysis. In 2016, synthetic opioids, led by fentanyl, surpassed heroin
In July 2021, Mexico City’s Secretariat of Economic Development (Sedeco) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) signed a mandate and services agreement for the development of studies, engineering, supply, installation and commissioning of the 18 MW Photovoltaic Project at the Central de Abasto (CEDA). In this project, 1,000