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Article

12 Oct 2005

Author:
Tara Carman, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Latin American companies find new business partners in unexpected places

International companies in Colombia and El Salvador are learning what it takes to do business with the low-income communities in their own backyards...ColCerámica...which makes sanitary devices like toilets and sinks...has now come out with a line of new products to serve [low-income customers]...who typically have modest houses in need of renovation...Salvadorian cement company Cessa, a Holcim subsidiary, is making its technology available to small-scale brick producers to help improve their productivity.