June 7, 2024 - World Trade Center Monterrey has been selected as one of the three outstanding centers that are driving economic impact and international business education. Under the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) model, WTC Monterrey contributes to the distribution of knowledge and drives towards economic growth by helping MSMEs be competitive through advice and training. Read More
June 3, 2024 - World Trade Center Monterrey conducted for second consecutive year the Retailer Vendor Fair where more than 300 SME's showed up to link themselves with the main food and retail vendors in the state of Nuevo Leon. In the years to come we intend to team up with the Chamber of Commerce so we can enlarge the program and have tens of big boxes and thousands of SME's in the same event. Read More
May 31, 2024 - What a way to build bridges! In collaboration with WTC Monterrey director, Eugenio José Reyes Guzmán, MXLAN International Economic Summit combined three robust panel discussions: education, future of banking and USA - Mexico relations with a sistercity trade mission. Kudos to Daniella Plata, MPA, and Javier Villalobos for their leadership. Read More
March 29, 2024 - Eugenio Reyes, member of the WTCA board, participated in the MSME dialogue of the Americas sharing the best practices of mexican SBDC expansion. Is it not true that 97% of all exporting units are SMEs. Right, but, in USD terms, they are collectively less than 10% of the total export value. In the USA, less than 1% of companies are currently exporting. SMEs in LATAM are not the same. Due to the size and vulnerability of their economies, they share a different mandate. How can they fulfill their need to export? Companies such as UPS, FedEx , DHL could certainly pitch in and quote accordingly. Read More
February 29, 2024 - By an invitation made by the USA Embassy in Mexico, World Trade Center Monterrey transferred the Small Business Development Center model to the Mexican southern states of Yucatan and Quintana Roo. This first-time ever effort happened during the third week of February and was made possible with the investment of the Interamerican Bank of Development. Read More
September 10, 2021 - Around the world, women play an essential role as leaders. They transform lives and are innate change agents.Recognizing their capabilities and talents, WTC Monterrey joins efforts with the Coordinating Council of Entrepeneurs Women chapter Nuevo Leon, to strengthen women’s leadership skills, make their potential visible and promote their advancement. In colaboration, we carry out our first annual foum “FOMUF Foro Mujeres Fuertes 2021: Undertaking the future”. This event integrates a combination of conferences, face-to-face discussions with experts, panel presentations and teamwork. It will take place virtually every Thursday of October (the 7th, 14th, 21th and 28th) and will be broadcast in Mexico and Latin America, looking forward to have at least 2500 women as attendees, mainly businesswomen and entrepeneurs. Read More
July 28, 2021 - In recent months, the WTC Monterrey has signed memorandums of understanding with various local organizations that work for small and medium-sized companies, as we do. We recognize the importance of working through alliances and collaborations that benefit the business community as they help us reach more people and companies, and fulfill our mission of ensuring that small and medium-sized companies develop and continue to grow. Some of the local organizations with which we have signed these agreements of understanding are: China Chamber of Commerce and Technology in Mexico, Wadhwani Foundation, Cluster Agroalimentario, Consejo Mexicano de Comercio Exterior del Noreste, Consejo Coordinador de Mujeres Empresarias, among others. Also this year we began to work together with other WTCs to offer free webinars for the business community with different views of the countries to which we belong, which has been very enriching for the audience. We have conducted webinars in conjunction with WTC Almeda Park, Spain and WTC Valencia, Venezuela. Read More
March 5, 2021 - The World Trade Center Monterrey through the Wadhwani Foundation, will provide free advice to 300 SMEs in the state of Nuevo Leon with the aim of doubling their production and keeping at least six thousand jobs. The World Trade Center Monterrey and the Wadhwani Foundation, which is from India, signed a collaboration agreement that will allow state businessmen to receive advice from experts from international firms. This program is called Wadhwani Advantage. It was launched on February 2021 here in Nuevo Leon in collaboration with the state’s Secretary of Economy and the goal is to help 300 SMEs by the end of the year. The program is free for the companies that will participate and where the stabilization of their operation and economic recovery are sought. The World Trade Center Monterrey sought for the agreement to be collegiate, multi-year and collaborative so that it transcends in the long term, beyond the government in turn. Read More
April 14, 2020 - In alliance with an enterprise called Territorium which offers a digital platform for online trining and education, WTC Monterrey will provide free Online Training for SMEs, and the training will be available for all the SMEs in Mexico. The contents of this training will be provided by Pearson Education. Read More
April 6, 2020 - To help the SMEs of our community during this difficult time because of the COVID 19, the WTC Monterrey launched today a program called "Speed Business Coaching" in which our team of expert business advisors are providing business counceling online to give the SMEs a guide of alternatives about what they can do to diversify their products and services in this quarentine. Read More
January 27, 2020 - Seeking to grow our business community, the last January 23rd 2020 at the WTC Monterrey was held the first business networking event of this year. The event started with the conference titled “Business growth in times of Crisis” in which Arturo Medellin Milan talked about his experience being the CEO of Grupo NAMM, a company with more tan 45 years in the market and that has survived different times of economic crisis. After the conference, the attendees had the opportunity to connect between them and looked for business opportunities. Read More
October 15, 2019 - Last October 1st, the Ministry of Economy and Labor of the goverment of Nuevo Leon, announced that in search of an economic improvement in the State, they will create in 2020 the SME Development Center, led by the World Trade Center Monterrey. The main purpose of this center will be to generate new Jobs and to get an exponential impact of sales in the SME. “Perhaps the most latent pain of of SMEs, worldwide, is the loneliness in making decisions to make their business grow” - said Eugenio Reyes, Director of the WTC Monterrey - “so this Center will help the SMEs in Nuevo Leon with that, providing them a guide in decision making. It is a great honor that the WTC Monterrey has been chosen as the figure that will lead the effort for the development of SMEs”. Thanks to the satisfactory results that the WTC Monterrey has obtained in recent years regarding the SMEs economic development, the state agency chose it as the headquarters to lead the work of supporting SMEs in Nuevo Leon. Read More