Latin America’s 1,000 largest companies have total assets of $4.5 trillion, according to Latin Trade’s new LT1000, which ranks the firms by revenues, assets, net income, gross profits and EBITDA. A lot of the companies’ results show the effects of a slowing regional economy, brought by falling commodity prices and political crises in some cases. But many companies achieved outstanding results despite these conditions. One of these was Argentine real estate firm Irsa, whose total assets went from $1.08 billion to $10.07 billion in one year. Another such case was Colombian retailer Grupo Exito, with total assets growing from $4.84 billion to $16.49 billion. The biggest ever and latest addition to Latin Trade’s range of business intelligence products, the LT1000 […]