Vigatec is a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an corporation

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 founded in 1980. The company headquarters is based in Santiago de Chile and it has subsidiaries

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 in Ecuador

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, Bolivia

Bolivia

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 and Brazil

Brazil

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. Vigatec currently has about 200 employees.

Vigatec has several products and services:

• The reselling and marketing
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   of various types of plastic cards (like: ATM cards, various credit card
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  s, phone cards
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  , loyalty program cards, etc.).
• Mail handling equipment.
• Control & security systems.
• Packaging equipment.

In Chile, Vigatec is the exclusive reseller of the following brand

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s: Datacard

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, Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes

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, Kyocera Mita, Rexel

Rexel

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, Tempo, Linear, Synel, Secom

Secom

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, and Thermo Electron

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.

History

Vigatec was founded in 1980 as a division of Vigamil, a paper

Paper

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 envelope

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 manufacturing

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 company.

In 1991, Vigatec started selling products for attendance & access control.

In 1999 the company started selling security products (alarms, CCTV

Closed-circuit television

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 equipment)

Labor oriented initiatives

Vigatec has initiated several labor environment improvement projects:

• The Second generation plan is a summer work program directed at the children (between 14 and 18 years of age) of the employees.
• Vigatec is willing to pay, for children of the employees, the registration and monthly costs of studies in the pre-university institute of the Catholic
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   University
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   in San Joaquín
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• An Internet for all program which means that in the summer months there is a special room with computer
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  s connected to the Internet
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  , so the employees, with or without their children, could use them to for their personal interests.
• A Vocational & professional orientation program to help the children of their employees to explore their motivations and interests