• A new meeting with more than 1,000 entrepreneurs and businessmen from Bogota and the region to recognize their dedication and constant effort to generate new opportunities and continue to be the engine that drives the economy.

• To inspire all participants, during the day there will be the intervention of Allison Avendaño, 10-year-old entrepreneur, CEO of a digital marketing company called Digitally School who created her business project as a result of an economic crisis that her parents had and now has her own school for other children to learn about entrepreneurship.

• In total, Bogota and the region have 479,378 active companies as of October, 6.7% more than in 2021.

Bogota, November 2022. Through its business strengthening services, the Bogota Chamber of Commerce has assisted this year more than 152,000 companies and entrepreneurs who have sought to consolidate their business and have been accompanied by the entity to move forward with their business initiatives. This is equivalent to 31.7% of the active companies in the business fabric of Bogota-Region.

More than 1,000 of them will be recognized next Tuesday, November 22 at Agora Bogota, in a conference in which four of these entrepreneurs will share their experiences to boost their businesses and how, with the support of the CCB, they have found real answers to their needs.

During the event, the figures of active companies and companies created so far this year will be presented. According to preliminary data, business activity in Bogota and the region continues to improve, for the first ten months of the year in Bogota and the 59 municipalities under the jurisdiction of the CCB there are 479,378 active companies, 6.7% more compared to the same period of 2021 and 13.3% more compared to 2020.

Nicolás Uribe Rueda, president of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce, stated that "We make this recognition to the companies for their great effort to remain at the forefront of the market and with them be more competitive. With this, we are contributing to the economic and social development of Bogota and the region through support services, mentoring and a portfolio of more than 500 free services, among others.

Inspiring entrepreneurs

Among the success stories present at this event, attendees will learn the story of Milena Seco of the company RISCATTO BENDITO REGALO, an enterprise in which the hands of craftswomen, heads of households, give the best of their work every day so that customers receive a true love story through jewelry and costume jewelry items that allow them to show off their faith and sow hope.

She has strengthened her business project hand in hand with the CCB with training and consulting services and today she feels that she has "reached an MBA level" given the extensive use she has made of the entire portfolio.

Carlos Andrés Segura - Co-founder and CEO of TRYCORE SAS, a young company that offers digital services and solutions for digital transformation, who says that he built his company since it was an idea supported by the tools of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota. He participated in the Young Entrepreneurs Fair and began to take advantage of these resources for the growth of my company. "It was thus, for example, through the CCB that I got my first important corporate client, which marked a before and after in my company."

He added that "The Chamber has helped us to set a clear horizon of where we want to take the company, which is mainly internationalization. This route has given us every step and has accompanied us to achieve this great dream. We have increased productivity by improving our internal processes, with projects of the Chamber of Commerce, supported by the national government, and we have increased efficiency by 40% in productivity in our software factory. We are operationally preparing the whole process to achieve the export of our products".

Also present will be the case of María Adelaida Pereria - General Manager of CALZADO CAPRINO one of the most important companies in the leather, footwear and leather goods sector that this year celebrates its first 50 years with the firm conviction that all its products not only keep memories but also tell the dreams of those who have worked in this company.

And finally John Santafé - General Manager of the company OUTSOURCING SAS BIC, BPO & Contact Center company, with over 27 years of experience managing the acquisition, service and maintenance of customers, seeking the welfare and care of its customers and employees. This company was recognized as the first Contact Center and BPO Industry in the country to become BIC, where the CCB played an important role in accompanying this management.

John Santafé understood the need to share his experiences, skills and knowledge to the service and benefit of other entrepreneurs, as a committed actor in that more and more actors take real actions for the growth and competitiveness of the country and therefore is linked as a mentor of the CCB Mentor Network. It has had the support of the CCB in its different processes, being today one of the main referents within the MEGA Companies in Trajectory initiative.

Business reactivation is a country-building commitment; strengthening the business fabric, especially at a time when small and medium-sized companies throughout the country are betting on the continuity of their businesses, has given us the opportunity to offer new possibilities for companies to grow and forces us to play a more active role in generating proposals to promote their competitiveness and sustainability. From the CCB we are very proud that our entrepreneurs and businessmen allow us to accompany them in this process.