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SABMiller launches entrepreneurship programme in Colombia
Bavaria, the Colombian subsidiary of world leading brewer SABMiller, is addressing the problems faced by small entrepreneurs as they try to grow their businesses.
The new initiative builds on Bavaria’s Destapa Futuro entrepreneurship programme, which has already been running for three years. Destapa Futuro has supported the creation of 184 businesses and invested over US$6 million in training, mentoring and assessing business plans for more than 1,000 entrepreneurs.
However, in Colombia the principle challenge for small projects is the difficulty in resourcing private capital to grow further once they have exhausted their seed funding. In response to this need, Destapa Futuro has launched a social networking website – http://www.redemprendedoresbavaria.net – to connect business people and entrepreneurs across the country.
The site helps small entrepreneurs build connections with individual investors who offer information, advice, contacts and, in many cases, investment. It has already attracted over 18,000 registered users from more than 500 towns and cities, 12% of whom have engaged in business deals with other users.
Barry Smith, MD of SABMiller Latin America said: “Destapa Futuro has provided training, seed capital and support to entrepreneurs. But beyond this there has been a significant gap between start-up businesses and the formal providers of capital. We hope that our new entrepreneur network will result in many stories of new businesses bridging this gap and becoming significant, thriving and established.”
written on 06.07.2010 um 18:55.
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