Best managed companies in Latin America 2013: Chile’s Falabella is Latin America’s best

Euromoney’s best-managed Latin American company, Falabella, prides itself on serving the investor community as assiduously as it does its retail customers. And best company in Brazil Bradesco seeks to apply the IT skills it uses in banking to its relations with investors.

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Chile-headquartered retailer Falabella is rated as Latin America’s best-managed company in this year’s survey of analysts. The Chilean retailer has been expanding its operations throughout the region and is typical of the increasingly common phenomena of multi-Latina organizations. However, Alejandro González, Falabella’s CFO, says that the company has deliberately avoided taking a regional approach to its investor relations strategy. “The retail business is mainly a local business,” he says. “One can plan globally but you must act locally in order to succeed.

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