Tag Archives: tijuana

San Diego Mayor official visit to Tijuana

By Adina Moloman Source: San Diego Reader, UT San Diego On January 21, San Diego mayor Bob Filner had his first official meeting in Tijuana with Mayor Carlos Bustamante and border entrepreneurs, representatives of the Tijuana Maquiladora Industry. This is not Filner’s first appearance in Tijuana, last year he visited the organizers of Tijuana Innovadora [...]

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Baja California Culinary & Gastronomic Fest 2012

by Adina Moloman Sources: San Diego Reader, bcculinaryfest.com Baja California Culinary & Gastronomic Festival 2012 will be held October 11 to 14. Tijuana Innovadora and the Culinary & Gastronomic festival are two events that compliment each other in order to achieve the region’s reawakening. The event will feature 24 participating chefs preparing 12 special dinners [...]

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Mayors’ reunion

By Adina Moloman Source: San Diego Red During an event last week organized by the Institute of the Americas of the UCSD, Tijuana Mayor, Carlos Bustamante has met Jerry Sanders, Mayor of San Diego, for a bi-national conversation. This is the second round of conversations; the first one took place in May in San Diego. [...]

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2012 Baja California Medical Device Supplier Day

By Adina Moloman Source: Baja Medical Device Baja Medical Device Cluster, the State Government of Baja California and Tijuana’s Economic Development non profit organization are making all the arrangements for the next edition of Baja California Medical Device Supplier Day, which will take place next month on June 13th, 2012, at Tijuana Border town with [...]

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U.S.-Mexico Border Mayors reunion in Tijuana

By Adina Moloman Sources: www.afntijuana.info; www.tijuanapress.com The meeting of the U.S.-Mexico Border Mayors Association was held in Tijuana at the World Trade Center. The main themes analyzed during a news conference following by closed-door meetings were: migration (measures to attend the  numbers of Mexicans deported from the U.S) ,the importance of economic development at border [...]

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Ryerson Opens new Facility in Tijuana

By Adina Moloman Source: Metal Center News;   Siglo 21 Ryerson Inc., a major processor and distributor of metals in North America and China, who has developed a network of service centers throughout the United States, Canada and China, has opened last month a new service center in Tijuana. This new investment in Tijuana is part [...]

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Expo Manufacturing Tecate 2011

By Adina Moloman Source: SEDECO Expo Manufacturing Tecate 2011 took place last Thursday, October 27th, at the Convention Hall Peregrinos in Tecate, B.C, Mexico. This was the first edition and the event, which aimed to provide business opportunities in the region, attract new investments that can encourage the development of the industrial sector in Tecate. [...]

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Official Opening of a new manufacturing plant in Tijuana: Össur

By Adina Moloman SEDECO, www.ossur.com September 23rd took place the official opening of the first Iceland manufacturing facility in Tijuana, Össur[1]. Officials from Mexico government (Baja California Governor, Tijuana Mayor) and officials from Össur (President and CEO) assisted at the ribbon cutting ceremony. The manufacturing company received a monetary of nearly $ 1,116 million from [...]

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First phase: Baja’s Innovation and Technology Center

By Adina Moloman Source: Tijuana EDC September 21st was inaugurated the first phase of the Business Innovation and Technology Center in Tijuana, known as BIT Center. The main purpose of this new center is to provide the infrastructure for incubating and developing software and information technology with the help of the local talent, available for investors [...]

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Annual B2B International event for the Aerospace and Defense Industry held in Tijuana, Baja California

By Adina Moloman Source: Secretary of Economy, Baja Aerospace Show, American Industries Group This July 20-21st 2011 will take place the Second Annual Baja California International Aerospace Supplier Forum, at the Matrix Maintenance Facility, at the Tijuana International Airport. The Forum offers: Strategic business meetings, Networking events, Exhibitor halls, Panel discussions on the business opportunities in [...]

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