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Haiti - Economy : Haiti Open For Business, numerous foreign and local investments
25/08/2013 10:03:04

Georges Andy René, Director General of Investment Facilitation Centre (CFI), declared this week that the slogan 'Haiti Open For Business' has attracted 34 international companies in the last 3 months, and pointed out that since the establishment of the new Government Martelly, investments in Haiti had increased by 20% and that for the current fiscal year, the CFI had recorded $225 million of foreign direct investment.

In its latest information bulletin the CFI mentions a series of direct investment, foreign and domestic, totaling 26.16 million dollars, which will eventually create 1,406 jobs, not to mention the investment of the month, the Haytrac Power & Gas, Promigas and Andinat https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9267-haiti-economy-lng-gas-terminal-official-launch-of-work.html including the launch [Tuesday, August 20], of construction work of the first liquefied natural gas, an investment of $123 will create 159 direct jobs qualified and nearly 6,000 indirect jobs.

CFI cites several foreign and local investments that directly include :

Investissements directs étrangers :
SURTAB S.A., working in the manufacture of tablets, phones and accessories. An investment of U.S. $ 300,000, which will create 39 jobs ;
TDC COMBUSTIBLES S.A., in the field of treatment of waste oil and sludge hydrocarbon, an investment of $760,000, which will create 21 jobs ;
LIFE S.A., that will manufacture textile goods (handbags, t-shirts, belt, pants), an investment of U.S. $ 100,000, which will generate 20 jobs ;
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION II HAITI S.A., who work in the garment knitted a 10 million investment that will create 780 jobs ;
HAITI LEATHER S.A. that will produce leather goods for export, an investment of $ 2.2 million that will create 355 jobs ;
AYITI LINGE SERVICE S.A., a laundry and linen processing, an investment of U.S. $ 2 milion which will create 20 jobs.

New local investment :
SOPASA S.A. who work in the production of pasta, an investment of 1.8 million that will create 54 jobs ;
PREFAB S.A. a plant for the production of aggregates and derivatives, a 5 million investment that will create 87 jobs ;
DMS ENTREPRISE S.A. a manufacturing plant of electrical copper wire, a 4 million investment that will create 30 jobs.

See also :
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9246-haiti-reconstruction-lng-terminal-of-$103mm.html

HL/ SL/ HaitiLibre