With multiple trips abroad, to the brothers Guido and André Parisier, engineering graduates from Itpba, had the idea in 2009 to invent the business of selling gifts. Data technology experts created Big Box based on strategic alliances and business agreements with an initial capital of USD 24,000 and aimed at corporate gifts. They have been chosen by Endeavor and what used to be a company specializing in the sale of vouchers, which allows you to choose a gift from multiple alternatives, is now a technology company that operates on various platforms and has become an incentive program for employees of many companies. In addition to Argentina, they operate in Uruguay, Chile, Peru and Mexico and unite the online and offline worlds. In addition to sales on its website, where half of its sales are made, they are in brick and mortar stores in malls. The company has 200 people and a team of 50 technology professionals for their own developments. They have surpassed pre-pandemic levels this year with 50% growth and 500,000 “experiences” sold through November. December, which accounts for 30% of its annual sales, is going strong, according to André Parisier. 65% of its sales come from Argentina. Guido Parisier has moved to Spain to lead what will be the landing in Europe.
The nutrition expert Sergio Brito, with the baton in the specialized Cepea, warned of the urgency of lowering the tax burden on food, which is one of the “culprits for poor nutrition in vulnerable sectors”. According to her calculations, a family of 4 needs $1,364 a day just to complete recommendations for healthy foods that are deficient in their diets. “The refund of the VAT taxed on these foods would result in a 14% incentive on the expenditure they make for these purchases. The amount of the incentive is not low, but the extent of the gap with healthy eating is so high that if they allocate all that reimbursement to buy more vegetables, fruit, legumes and dairy products, they could only cover 5% of what is needed ”, she claims.
Another step in what is already a global trend has just been taken in Argentina, electric mobility to reduce carbon emissions. The French Schneider Electric has signed an agreement with Irsa, owner of the main shopping centers, to which it has added Intermepro, one of the leaders in solar energy in the region. They will install free-use electric car chargers in major shopping malls across the country. It is still an incipient market in the country, although 3,453 non-traditional motorized cars have been patented so far this year.
Import barriers are high on the corporate agenda, even from unsuspected sectors that need imported inputs. This is the case of animal feed manufacturers. They warn of the impossibility of importing micro-ingredients as a result of “the failure to approve and/or comply with licenses, such as extensions of terms granted for the transfer of foreign currency abroad”. They ensure that outages and shortages are generated in the sector. They refer to vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other essential nutritional additives in animal diets, in short, the micro-ingredients that generate higher production efficiency.
Another group that is in a state of alarm are those dedicated to reagents for clinical analyses. This is the case for those who carry out prenatal studies. Or a specific analysis. This week it emerged that in Fleni they have more than 50 unprocessed samples due to a lack of reagents for neuro-immunological analysis, since they cannot import these reagents. The truth is that the shortcomings include those used in clinical chemistry, endocrinology, hematology, immunology, microbiology, oncology, identification of congenital defects and metabolism in newborns, applications in blood banks, HIV, transplant areas, among others. -evaluation such as that carried out by diabetic patients. In this sector they state that 80% of the products used as reagents are of imported origin.
With birth certificate in Spain, the engineer José García Sanleandro was appointed president of Naturgy Ban. The concessionaire which since 1992 has been supplying the distribution of natural gas through the networks. It is the second gas distributor in the country by sales volume, with almost 1,630,000 residential customers, 48,200 commercial and 1,300 industrial customers, 400 CNG stations and 3 sub-distributors. The extent of its natural gas networks amounts to 27,000 kilometres.
Source: Clarin
