Retail, food, beverage, finance and technology are the top five sectors that create jobs in Latin America, according to Latin Trade’s Top 100 Employers of 2018 ranking. Twenty-four retailers account for 31.4 percent of jobs in the region, with more than 1.8 million employees total. The top employer in the ranking is Wal-Mart, with more than 363,000 employees, followed by Mexican beverage and retail firm FEMSA, which operates the largest independent Coca-Cola bottling group in the world, and the country’s largest convenience store chain, Oxxo. Two Chilean companies stand out for jumping nine spots in the ranking from the year before: Sigdo Koppers, a conglomerate that operates in the Americas, Europe and Asia, and Sodimac, a home improvement warehouse store […]
Latin America’s Top 100 Employers 2018
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