By Adina Moloman Sources: El Paso Times, UT San Diego The U.S.-Mexico Border Mayors Association recently met in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The Forth Bi-national Summit of the US-Mexico Border Mayors Association, where the main idea for the Mayors from along the US-Mexico border is to collaborate on topics that affect both communities in Mexico and [...]
Tijuana- a space for innovation
By Adina Moloman Sources: Tijuana Economic Development Corporation, MIND Hub, BIT Center Legislation and institutions are working together in the State of Baja California in order to foster Science Research, Innovation and Technology. To boost competitiveness through innovation is the latest focus in the Baja California region. Last year the Congress of Baja California state [...]
Baja California Convention Center
By Adina Moloman Sources: bccenter.mx, UT San Diego Baja California inaugurated a major convention center of 300,000-square-foot located at Km. 31.5 on the highway between Tijuana and Rosarito, which can accommodate events of up to 12,000 attendees. The Baja Center will host all sorts of events, from concerts, sports events to corporate events supporting the [...]
Investments in Mexico automotive industry
By Adina Moloman Sources: Reuters, Audi Media Services, www.kpmg.com In the last 20 years, the Mexico Maquiladora Industry has received high amounts of investment and in particular in its automotive sector. The Mexican automotive sector can be considered nowadays a consolidated sector with the presence of important transnational corporations also called OEM’s such as: Volkswagen, [...]
Mexico a good choice for nearshoring
By Adina Moloman Source: www.alixpartners.com Recently, AlixPartners, a global business advisory firm, released a study over the opportunities and costs for multinationals, benefits of bringing back from China to the US and Mexico some of their production destined for the American market. The study is based on manufacturing costs analysis to move factories from Asia [...]
Baja California’s strategic economic zone second phase
By Adina Moloman Source: SEDECO, UT San Diego The creation of the “Border Economic Zone”, AC, a “civil association” that supports the Border economic Zone project, took place at a recent formal ceremony. Governor Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan, the mayor of Tijuana, Carlos Bustamante and other officials from Ensenada, Tecate and Rosarito, attended the ceremony. [...]
Mexico financial sector reform proposals 2013
By Adina Moloman Sources: Notimex, Reuters The Mexican Secretary of the Treasury and Public Credit, Videgaray’s notice of the executive branch making public its proposal to amend the Mexico’s financial system. Proposed are series of actions to increase bank lending to priority areas and projects such as to small and medium size enterprises, infrastructure projects, [...]
Doing business in Mexico 2013
By Adina Moloman Source: http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/mexico/ This year Mexico ranks number 48 out of 185 world economies, improving 6 positions in the last two years according the recently was released annual “Doing Business Report for 2013” by the World Bank. The analysis is based on a series of variables that defines the “easiness” of doing business [...]
The first Aerospace Center in Precision Machining (CADTE) in Baja California
By Adina Moloman Baja California inaugurated the first specialized Aerospace Center in Precision Machining (CADTE) this April 2013 at Cast Conalep. This CADTE will train students to produce precision parts that fulfill the criteria required by the aerospace industry. Baja California has encouraged the setting up of manufacturing in Mexico facilities by leading aerospace companies [...]
Bitcoin phenomenon
By Adina Moloman Sources: www.bitcointalk.org, www.bnamericas.com, www.forbes.com The bitcoin online phenomenon is wide spreading around the world, reaching different kind of transactions. Every day many countries around the world are more interested in installing Bitcoin ATM’s. France and US are placing large orders of Bitcoin ATM’s. The phenomenon is reaching Latin American countries also. Mexico [...]
