The Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño (GEA, Business Group of Antioquia) also known as Sindicato Antioqueño, is a Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n conglomerate

Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate structure , usually involving a parent company and several subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company...

 composed by around 125 companies, most of them based in Antioquia Department

Antioquia Department

Antioquia is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea. Most of its territory is mountainous with some valleys, much of which is part of the Andes mountain range...

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Though, legally speaking, such an entity does not exist, it is commonly regarded as the first Colombian keiretsu

Keiretsu

A is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. It is a type of business group. The keiretsu has maintained dominance over the Japanese economy for the greater half of the twentieth century....

. It is "controlled" by three companies: Cementos Argos

Cementos Argos

Cementos Argos is the leader in the Colombian cement industry, with 51% of market share. It is the fourth largest cement producer in Latin America with investments in Panama, Haiti. and the Dominican Republic...

 (cements), Suramericana de Inversiones or Inversura (financial), and Grupo Nacional de Chocolates

Grupo Nacional de Chocolates

Grupo Nutresa formerly Nacional de Chocolates S.A. is a food processing conglomerate headquartered in Medellín, Colombia....

 (food). The group, through these companies, has 10,000 shareholder

Shareholder

A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or institution that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a public or private corporation. Shareholders own the stock, but not the corporation itself ....

s. GEA's 2007 income amounts to 5.5% of Colombia's gross domestic product

Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product refers to the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living....

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Companies

• Bancolombia
  Bancolombia
  Bancolombia is the largest commercial bank in Colombia and one of the largest in Latin America. The bank is headquartered in Medellín, the second largest city in Colombia and was founded in 1945....
  
  
• Grupo Nacional de Chocolates
  Grupo Nacional de Chocolates
  Grupo Nutresa formerly Nacional de Chocolates S.A. is a food processing conglomerate headquartered in Medellín, Colombia....
  
  
  • Compañía Nacional de Chocolates
    Companía Nacional de Chocolates
    Compañía Nacional de Chocolates S.A. is a food and beverage company headquartered in Medellín, Colombia and one of the largest companies in Colombia. It was founded on April 12, 1920 in Sonson, Antioquia, Colombia, as the Red Cross Chocolate Company. Expansion and diversification in coffee and...
    
    
  • Compañía Nacional De Chocolates de Perú S.A.
    Compañía Nacional De Chocolates de Perú S.A.
    Compañía Nacional de Chocolates de Perú S.A. is a food and beverage company headquartered in Lima, Peru. Compañía Nacional de Chocolates de Perú S.A. was incorporated February 1, 2007 as a subsidiary of the parent company Grupo Nacional de Chocolates S.A...
    
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  • Compañía de Galletas Noel
    Compañía de Galletas Noel
    Noel, formally known as Compañía de Galletas Noel S.A. is a food and beverage company headquartered in Medellín, Colombia.-External links:*...
    
    
  • Compañía de Galletas Pozuelo D.C.R.
  • Industrias de Alimentos Zenú
  • Dulces de Colombia
  • Colcafé
  • Meals de Colombia
  • Pastas Doria
  • Rica Rondo
  • Frigorífico Suizo
  • La Bastilla
  • Hermo de Venezuela
  • Frigorífico Continental
  • Tecniagro
  • Comarrico
• Fabricato
• Inversiones Argos
  Inversiones Argos
  Inversiones Argos is a Colombian Conglomerate that concentrates on the production of cement and concrete. However, since becoming the majority shareholder of Colinversiones in early 2008 it has also has focused on investment of hidroelectric projects...
  
  
  • Cementos Argos
  • Cementos Colón
  • Corp. Incem
  • Port Royal
  • CINA
    CINA
    CINA is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts multicultural programming at AM 1650 in Mississauga, Ontario.Approved by the CRTC on April 23, 2007, the station is owned by Neeti Prakash Ray and began testing at 1650 kHz in late 2008....
    
    
  • Savannah Cement
  • Southern Star Concrete, Inc.
    Southern Star Concrete, Inc.
    Southern Star Concrete, Inc. or simply Southern Star is a concrete supply business headquartered in Irving, Texas. Southern Star is owned by Cementos Argos S.A., the largest cement producer in Colombia, South America...
    
    
  • Concrete Express
  • Ready Mixed Concrete
• Inversura
  • Seguros SURA formerly Compañía Suramericana de Seguros
  • Compañía Suramericana de Seguros de Vida
  • Interoceánica de Seguros
  • EPS SURA formerly Susalud
  • ARP SURA formerly Suratep
  • Seriauto
  • Administradora de Fondos de Inversión Suramericana
  • Gerencia Prestación servicios de Salud
  • IPS Punto de Salud, IPS Punto de Vista, AVANCE, Salud en Casa
  • Compañía Suramericana de Capitalización
  • Centro para los Trabajadores CPT
  • Interoceanica de seguros