Large Latin American industrial companies and groups in the 1990s

In: Notas sobre la economía y el desarrollo, Heft 618, S. 1-8

Abstract

Large privately-owned national industrial groups and companies are strongly situated in Latin American markets in the second half of the 1990s. This is the result of the structural transformation of regional and international economies since the beginning of the 1980s. These groups, together with the affiliates of transnational companies, are now the largest and the most dynamic business units operating in the region. Their predominance has been consolidated by the privatization of the great majority of state industrial companies. These findings are included in a 472-page ECLAC publication on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico of which some of the main results are reproduced in this paper. (Notas Econ Desarro Am Lat/DÜI)