Business
opportunities
& key industries
Uruguay provides opportunities and displays success
stories around two main models:
Trade & Global Services
HQ, SSC, Trading, Regional distribution, IT, BIO, Financial, Creative services, R&D
See moreSustainable production
Agribusiness & Food, Renewables & Fuels, Manufacturing, Tourism & Real estate
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Uruguay moves forward to consolidate its position as “LATAM Headquarter”. The high quality of life as well as the beneficial framework to develop holding activities generates favorable conditions to centralize top regional positions.
Some of Uruguay’s main advantages include regional stocks, minimal lead times and deferring import taxes.
By centralizing these commercial activities in Uruguay (with or without passage of the merchandise through the territory) it is possible to optimize services and tax costs in the purchase and sale of products (trading activities have less than 1% of income tax).
Shared Services Centers (SSC or GBS) is the most extended model. It goes from support services center to commercial activities such as trading, procurement, sales and logistics.
Is one of the main activities in Uruguay for several tech companies that are part of an ecosystem of more than 500 companies.
Uruguay has a powerful innovation ecosystem and a mature tech industry. It also offers a dynamic biotechnology-based ecosystem, including more than 150 research groups.
Trade &
Global Services Hub
Aimed at the centralization of activities in different platforms usually combined, to deliver the region, the Americas, or the world.
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Sustainable production Hub
Uruguay stands out for its competitiveness in value chains associated with the natural resource endowment as well as other productive activities where location, quality of human resources and tax incentives play a key role.
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These operations are often combined with regional distribution centers and centralized services. Among the most important verticals are the Food, Pharmaceutical, and Chemical industries, as well as Advanced manufacturing operations.
Uruguay has opportunities mainly in dairy, meat, grains, oilseeds, fruit, wool, and wood/pulp meal, both for investments in primary production and in industrial processes of first transformation.
Uruguay has recently positioned itself as a regional key player, with investment opportunities and projects throughout the upstream and downstream chain of green hydrogen production/export.
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