Service platform: How do we support our customers?

June 22, 2016

MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY - WTC Montevideo Free Zone invited its clients to participate in a networking activity aimed at presenting its service platform that provides them with tools to optimize the development of their global business activities.

With almost 97% of its tower already occupied and over 1200 people working in it, the strategy of WTC Montevideo Free Zone aims at developing ever-innovative processes and services in order to fully satisfy the needs of its clients and their human resources. It cooperates with companies in retaining their employees by providing benefits and carrying out effective actions so that they feel happy at their workplace and continue their professional training in house.

When a company considers starting its operations at WTC Montevideo Free Zone firstly, it ponders, among other factors, the country, its sound democracy and judicial system, its community, its location, the level of education of its population and the unique benefits that Uruguay’s Free Trade Zones legal framework offers. After settling into the Free Trade Zone, the development of the company’s business project will require an increasing amount of efficient services.

As a result, the professional team of WTC Montevideo Free Zone designed the service platform which was presented on Thursday, June 16th.

Some of the services are:

  • Consultancy services on legal and financial matters and human resources recruitment.
  • Training courses in healthcare and quality of life.
  • Strategic alliances which directly benefit employees’ productivity.
  • An annual calendar with corporate and theme events.
  • Direct benefits and promotions with WTC Montevideo Member affinity card.
  • Promoting business relationships and matchmaking between companies. With the purpose of internationalizing services exported from WTC Montevideo Free Zone, Business Units have been developed. Their objective is to organize trade missions and companies’ participation in international fairs and congresses abroad.

Within this operational framework, we provide our clients with the following business services: identifying potential strategic partners, coordinating and conducting business meetings with the assistance of the Commercial Management of the Free Trade Zone.

We also provide technical and corporate support in those business meetings, and we stress the importance of strengthening cultural ties and companies’ requirements.

  • Organizing and conducting corporate events. With regard to this, the synergy of our strategic alliances with Chambers of Commerce of different markets and continents facilitates establishing objectives related with the dissemination and realization of international events. They are free and and include the participation of prominent foreign professionals who provide information on topics related to the financial, economic and legal sectors, and interact with renowned Uruguayan professionals.
  • Training courses. Organized according to a calendar of topics, WTC Montevideo Free Zone conducts a variety of training workshops in its Meeting Rooms and it also coparticipates in other training sessions held at the Auditorium of World Trade Center Montevideo Complex. In order to make training easily available, efficient accesibility and in-company courses are provided.

These services, coupled with those that will be offered in 2017, add value to companies and their employees as well, which tips the balance when the strategic decision of settling into and starting operations at WTC Montevideo Free Zone is taken.

For further information about WTC Montevideo Free Zone, visit our website: www.wtcmontevideofreezone.com

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