AeroDreams S.A. is a defense contractor based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It has been working since 2001 in developing unmanned aerial vehicles for military and non-military use. The company's CEO is Raúl Fernández.
Aerolíneas Argentinas, formally Aerolíneas Argentinas S.A., is Argentina's largest airline and the country's flag carrier. The airline was created in 1949 from the merger of four companies, and started operations in December 1950. A consortium led by Iberia took control of the airline in 1990, and Grupo Marsans acquired the company and its subsidiaries in 2001, following a period of severe financial difficulties that put the airline on the brink of closure. The company has been run by the Argentine government since late 2008, when the country regained control of the airline after it was taken over from the Spanish owners. As of December 2014, Aerolíneas Argentinas was state-owned. It has its headquarters in Buenos Aires.
Agrinar SA is a tractor manufacturer located in Santa Fe, Argentina. It was founded in 2002, utilizing a former Massey Ferguson factory and designs. A lawsuit from AGCO, Massey Ferguson's parent company, brought about design changes.
Grupo Arcor is an Argentine food company specialized in confectionery. The firm was founded on July 5, 1951 in the city of Arroyito, Córdoba. It specializes in the production of foodstuff, sugar and chocolate confectionery, cookies and ice cream in 39 industrial plants throughout Latin America. Currently, Arcor is the main foodstuff company in Argentina.
Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. is McDonald’s largest franchisee in the world in terms of systemwide sales and number of restaurants. As of December 31, 2010, it represented 6.7% of McDonald’s franchised restaurants globally. As the largest operator of McDonald's restaurants in Latin America and the Caribbean, it has more than 94,000 employees, being one of the region's leading employers of young, first-time job holders. It serves more than 4.3 million customers daily and is the largest quick service restaurant (QSR) chain in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Aroma Café (S.A.) is an Argentine coffee chain, founded in London, England in 1991 and started in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2000. It has numerous branches in the United Kingdom in places as far afield as Barnsley and Edinburgh. McDonald's owned a small share of the company from 1999 to 2001.
Cielos del Sur S.A., operating as Austral Líneas Aéreas, more commonly known by its shortened name Austral, is a domestic airline of Argentina, the sister company of Aerolíneas Argentinas. It is the second largest domestic scheduled airline in the country, after Aerolíneas Argentinas itself. As a subsidiary of Aerolíneas Argentinas, the company shares its headquarters with that airline, which is located in the Aeroparque Jorge Newbery of Buenos Aires, the main base of operations of the company.
Banco Macro is the second largest domestically-owned private bank in Argentina, and the sixth-largest by deposits and lending.
Grupo Emepa is an Argentine manufacturer of railway vehicles and owner of Ferrovías, with headquarters located in the city of Buenos Aires. It had formerly owned Ferrocentral, which ran services from Buenos Aires to Córdoba and San Miguel de Tucumán on the Mitre Network, however the state-owned company SOFSE took over these services in 2014 and the subsidiary now remains inactive.
Establecimiento Las Marías is a company specializing in infusions, It develops them all the way from plant to package. It is a source of tea, and its lands are the producers of yerba mate. Taragüi, Unión and La Merced are some of the products that has been relying on over 85 years in the market.
Fibertel is an Argentine Internet service provider. It worked as a stand-alone organization until 2003, when it was merged with Cablevisión, a cable television provider. Cablevisión is part of the Grupo Clarín, thus Fibertel became part of it. Fibertel has over a million clients, and it is the third ISP of the country. The ongoing controversies between Clarín and Kirchnerism led to the revoke of Fibertel's licence in 2010, which generated great political stir. However they are now legally operating due to a Judge from Córdoba giving them their license back.
Grupo Financiero Galicia is a financial services holding company based in Buenos Aires, and its banking operations are the fifth largest in Argentina, as well as the largest among all domestically-owned private banks in the country.
Industrias Aeronáuticas y Mecánicas del Estado was a state entity and autarchic conglomerate of factories of Argentina created in 1951 to promote the manufacture of aircraft and automobiles. In 1956 it was renamed Dirección Nacional de Fabricación e Investigación Aeronáutica.
INVAP S.E. is an Argentine company that provides design, integration, construction and delivery of equipment, plants and devices. The company operates in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and delivers projects for nuclear, aerospace, chemical, medical, petroleum and governmental sectors.
Kikai Labs was an Argentinian company that produced 3D printers until late 2016, when it went bankrupt due to poor financial management.
Lagarde or Bodega Lagarde is a family-owned winery located in the Luján de Cuyo Department located in the west of the Mendoza Province, Argentina and was founded in 1897. Lagarde consists of five Mendoza vineyards and is currently owned and managed by the Pescarmona family. The winery is currently run by the third generation Pescarmonas: Sofia Pescarmona and Lucila Pescarmona, with Juan Roby Stordeur as the winemaker since 2002.
Loma Negra Companía Industrial Argentina S.A. is an Argentine manufacturer and the country's leading maker of cement, concrete, and lime.
Under the brands Mantecol and Nucrem is marketed a typical dessert of the cuisine of Argentina, a sort of semi-soft nougat made from peanut butter. It was originally created and marketed in the 1940s by the confectionery company Georgalos. Founded by a Greek immigrant family, his main reference, Miguel Georgalos, took the inspiration in a dessert of Greek cuisine, the halva.
Materfer is an Argentine manufacturer of railway and road vehicles, located in the city of Ferreyra in Córdoba Province. The company was established by FIAT Ferroviaria in the late 1950s, being its subsidiary until 1998.
Mirgor is an Argentine manufacturing firm. A maker of auto air conditioning units, the firm has diversified into the production of household appliances and cell phones, which are now its main source of revenue.
Motomel S.A. is a brand of Argentine motorcycle, based in Buenos Aires Province; founded in 1992 by the La Emilia investment group.
Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado is an Argentine State-owned company created in 2008 to operate passenger services in Argentina. It is a subsidiary of the Ferrocarriles Argentinos holding company.
Palitos de la selva is a brand of soft, chewy candy produced by Cadbury Stani Adams Argentina since the 1950s. It is one of the most popular and iconic confections in Argentina, and has also spread to Uruguay and Paraguay.
Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes is an Argentine brewery founded in 1888 in Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province, by Otto Bemberg, a German immigrant.
SABB S.A. is an Argentine rolling stock manufacturer based in María Juana, Santa Fe Province. The company was founded in 1951 and has supplied over 10,000 vehicles to the Argentine railways over the years. The company was the first Argentine rolling stock company set up after the nationalisation of the railways in 1948 and was the first company to produce cargo cars in the country after Ferrocarriles Argentinos ordered 2,000 cars in 1951. The company currently has a 32,000 square metres factory in María Juana where it is based.
SanCor is one of the leading dairy producers in Argentina. It holds one fifth of the total production in the country, and 90% of the Argentine exports of dairy products. It is a large cooperative made up many smaller ones, based on the Argentine "central milk basin" around the border between the provinces of Santa Fe and Córdoba.
Schneider is the brand of beer produced by the Compañía de Cervercerías Unidas Argentina (CCUA), or Company of United Beer Producers, in Spanish. The CCUA is as of 2006, the 3rd largest producer of beer in Argentina. It controls around 16% of the beer market in the country, and is the official importer of foreign brands Heineken and Budweiser in Argentina. It also imports and commercializes Corona and Guinness.
Signia is an Argentine sportswear brand which manufactures footwear and clothing. The brand has experienced some restructuring plans in the past due to financial problems, even disappearing from the market for some periods of time. Signia has also sponsored some Primera División football teams in Argentina, mostly at the beginning of the 2000s.
Supermercados Disco is an Argentine supermarket chain. It is one of many supermarket chains in South America to be owned by Cencosud. The Uruguayan company Supermercados Disco del Uruguay is an unrelated supermarket chain, but the Argentine chain was, in their beginning, part of the Uruguayan conglomerate and used the Uruguayan chain's logo.
TecnoTren is an Argentine manufacturer of railbuses. Its products are designed to be very low cost vehicles intended for use in rural parts of the country where railway privatisation and the subsequent deterioration of the network left small rural villages isolated.
Telecom Argentina is the major local telephone company for the northern part of Argentina, including the whole of the city of Buenos Aires. Briefly known as Sociedad Licenciataria Norte S.A., it quickly changed its name, and is usually known as simply Telecom within Argentina.
Trapiche is a winery in Mendoza, Argentina. It was founded in 1883 and consists of over 1000 hectares between several Mendoza vineyards. It is a two-time winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition Argentinian Wine Producer of the Year award, and is the largest producer of wine in Argentina. Trapiche is owned by Grupo Peñaflor, one of the first ten wine producers in the world.
Vassalli Fabril S.A. is an Argentine capital company that produces combine harvesters and tractors, including the brands Vassalli and Don Roque. It has three manufacturing plants located in Firmat, Santa Fe Province, occupying a total area of 99,000 m² and production capacity of 600 units a year. At the regional level, Vassalli Fabril competes with international producers based in Brazil and Argentina.
YPF is a vertically integrated Argentine energy company, engaged in oil and gas exploration and production, and the transportation, refining, and marketing of gas and petroleum products.