Mercado Libre The Most Valuable Company in LATAM

[Rich One]

ML number One, Ahead of 14 top Brazilian Companies and 4 Mexican ones. Founder and major Stockholder Marcos Galperin moved to Uruguay ..Only Argentinian Company to make the list...

Mercado Libre becomes the most valuable company in Latin America

The e-commerce retailer giant Mercado Libre has become the most valuable company in Latin America, surpassing giants like Petrobras. Read on LABS

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• Argentinian Mercado Libre is worth $60.6 billion;
• Of the 20 most valuable companies, 14 are Brazilian and four are Mexican on Economatica’s ranking.

The e-commerce retailer giant Mercado Libre has become the most valuable company in Latin America, surpassing giants like Vale, Petrobras and Itaú Unibanco, according to a survey by Economatica, reported InfoMoney.

The fight between Marcos Galperin and the banking union grows: can he "move" Mercado Libre to Uruguay?

The technological giant is fighting union pressure in Argentina and its CEO does not hide his annoyance. What benefits does the neighboring country offer?

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[QuilmesSlo]

The Argentina that can.

 

[jblaze5779]

And they still can't shake the unions. They have a huge target on their back since they are successful, everyone wants a piece.

 

[on the brink]

In tune with the times, MercadoLibre has a new logo. The two shaking hands have been replaced by two bumping elbows.

 

[Rich One]

Mercado Libre has now its own payment Platform in an agreement signed with Paypal creating MercadoPago that aims to eliminate all other payment forms.

PayPal Signs Commercial Agreement with MercadoLibre

Earlier this year, we made a strategic investment in MercadoLibre, one of the largest online commerce and payments ecosystems in Latin America. Our two companies share a common vision: we both want to help businesses compete globally, and offer innovative financial solutions to help people who are u

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[antipodean]

They are trying to be the Latin American version of Amazon, but unlike Amazon they are on the right side of the protectionist wall.
Have seen they have even launched their own branded products "Mercado Basics" similar to "Amazon Basics".
I just hope that their model continues to serve small retailers well and gives them options to expand their markets.
Like anything in this part of the wold, being big you deserve a shake down. Fail to pay up, expected that protection to disappear.

 

[jblaze5779]

Rather than improve your business to be successful it's easier to just make your competition's life miserable.

 

[FrankPintor]

Just a heads-up to anyone using MercadoLibre or MercadoPago on their phones: both applications now read the copy/paste buffer when they’re started, in the case of MercadoPago before authenticating the user. It’s a serious privacy violation, the last item you copied before opening the application is being read by them.

 

[Str4tu5]

Wow. Sounds illegal. How do you get around that?

 

[Str4tu5]

How can my family in the US receive funds from Argentina via MercadoPago?