The company of great consumption and food Unilever announced on Friday an investment of 30 billion pesos (about 1,528 million dollars) in Mexico between 2025 and 2028, amid the uncertainty for commercial tensions with the United States.
“With enormous pride I am pleased to reaffirm our investment announcement in Mexico for a total of 30 billion pesos that will be implemented between 2025 and 2028”.
Willem Uijen.
These investments, he explained, will be allocated mainly to the northern state of Nuevo León, and aim to increase the productive capacity in factories, new manufacturing lines, logistics projects and boost the digitalization of their operations.
He recalled that for the company Mexico is one of the main markets, since the growth that its brands have had in the country “gives us the confidence to invest in this factory” that will serve not only to the Mexican market, but to all of Latin America.
For his part, Marcelo Ebrad, Secretary of Economy of Mexico, stressed that this investment is a decision that supports the Mexico Plan, and said that it occurs in a context of “uncertainty” that the country is experiencing.
The announcement occurs after Mexico has announced that it will maintain tariff exemptions with the United States thanks to T-MEC which could give the country competitive advantages over other investment destinations.
Mexico closed 2024 with a new historical maximum in foreign direct investment (FDI), by registering 36 thousand 872 million dollars, an increase of 2.3 % compared to 2023, according to official data from the Ministry of Economy, although uncertainty due to the threat of imposition of tariffs by the United States has slowed the perspectives for this year.
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