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image from <http://www.teleantioquia.com.co/>
The A.C.L. (Asociación Colombiana de Locutores) (Colombian Broadcasters
Association) is an organization that represents the majority of public
broadcasters in Colombia.
It was established in 1954 by Carlos Pinzón Moncaleano. It is known today as the
Asociación Colombiana de Locutores y Comunicadores.
Source:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociaci%C3%B3n_Colombiana_de_Locutores_y_Comunicadores
The flag is a white horizontal flag, with the
logo in the middle, as seen in this picture.
(Picture taken on February 28, 2010 from a tv interview broadcasted by
TeleAntioquia channel
For additional information please see: A.C.L. (official website)
http://www.vocesacl.com/
Esteban Rivera, 6 September 2010
image from <www.casaluker.com>
From <www.casaluker.com>:
The design and symbology of Casa Luker´s flag was created by the
manager of the commercial unit, Mr. Jorge Augusto Salazar Pineda,
along with the agency Crear Ideas of Bogota. The rising sun from
the green mountains of our native land symbolizes naturalness,
freshness, food and respect for nature. The sun, which casts its
rays over the work and Casa Luker´s dynamics in the market
place, is symbolized in the color of the earth. The sun has the
dynamics of the light projected towards the infinite blue that
invites us to act with dynamism, innovation and energy. That
rising sun that moves and changes in the day, that with the force
of its rays renders light, warmth and life, symbolizes our
professionalism, fellowship and daily commitment.
This is our flag, a symbol of who we are and how we live in Casa
Luker."
Dov Gutterman, 15 June 2003
Combuscol (Combustibles de Colombia S.A., Colombian Fuel) is a
company established in Colombia in January 2005 by all the Texaco
gas stations countrywide, and in 2008, Mobil gas tations join as
well.
Source: <www.combuscol.com>.
The flag is a plain
horizontal flag with the logo in the middle, as seen here.
E.R., 23 March 2010
image by Eugene Ipavec, 4 March 2010
Grupo Exito (Exito in Spanish means "success", and
has a punctuation mark in the "E", thus it sould be
written Éxito; however for commercial reasons to keep all the
letters equal to each other on the signboards and all the
publicity, the accent was stripped from the original word).
Grupo Exito started as Almacenes Exito (Exito stores) in 1922,
when Luis Eduardo Yepes, a native from Medellin opened up a store
in the city of Barranquilla to supply the people with all the
goods needed for the local carnival, called "Carnaval de
Barranquilla" (Barranquilla Carnival). Then later on,
with a much wider offer, he started a series of chains in the
Atlantic Coast of Colombia and named his stores LEY (an
abbreviation of his initials). It is also worth mentioning that
LEY in Spanish means law. Parallel to this, in 1949 Gustavo Toro
Restrepo opened up the first Exito store, owned by Almacenes
EXITO S.A. later on, Almacenes EXITO S.A. establishes a company
called Didetexco S.A. which manufactures most of the garments and
textiles sold in Exito stores.
Also parallel to this in 1905 Spaniard José Carulla Vidal
establishes a store in Bogota called El Escudo Catalán (The
Catalan Shield), later renamed to Carulla.
Later on LEY stores where transformed in 1959 into the holding
CADENALCO (Gran Cadena de Almacenes Colombianos S.A.) which
operated all LEY stores. Parallel to this, in 1967 Jorge and
Margaret Bloch opened up a store named La Huerta (Market Garden)
in Bogota, now called Pomona, and later expanded with several
stores. Also, parallel to this in 1969 Alberto Azout established
a chain store called Vivero in Barranquilla.
In 1974 CADENALCO acquires the chain store Pomona (previosuly
known as Almacenes La Candelaria). In 1992 CADENALCO opened up
SuperLEY stores under a new format, still keeping the old LEY
stores. In 1995 Almacenes EXITO S.A. acquires a percentage in
Venezuelan retail store Cativen which operates Supermercados Cada
and Hipermercados EXITO in Venezuela.
Then in 1999 Casino Groupe, a French retailer store acquires a
percentage in the shares of Almacenes EXITO S.A. , and in turn,
Almacenes EXITO S.A. acquires a percentage of shares in
CADENALCO, starting talks of a future merger, which took place
effectivelly in November 2001.
In 2000, Carulla and Vivero merge into one company called Carulla
Vivero S.A. and then in 2007 Almacenes Exito S.A. acquires
Carulla Vivero S.A., and also Groupe Casino acquires the majority
of shares in the newly created Grupo Exito.
In early 2010, Venezuelan President expropiated several EXITO
stores in Venezuela and opened up for allegedly manipulating
prices in the already turbulent Venezuelan Economy and its
hyperinflation. The stores's names were renamed Hipermercados
Bicentenario, but the EXITO logos are still seen in the stores as
well as the price tags.
Currently Group Exito operates several lines:
- Hypermarkets: EXITO, Vivero hypermarket stores
- Supermarkets: Carulla, Pomona and LEY stores
- Discount stores: Bodega Surtimax stores
- Specialized stores: Home Mart stores
- Local stores: Merquefacil stores.
The flag is a yellow horizontal flag with the logo on the middle.
Sources: <www.almacenesexito.com>
and wikipedia.
E.R., 4 March 2010
image by Eugene Ipavec, 20 February 2010
Servientrega is a Logistics and Delivery company established
in 1982, currently serving several cities in Colombia, as well as
six countries abroad.
Its flag is a green horizontal flag with the logo on the middle.
Source: <www.servientrega.com.co>
E.R., 20 February 2010
image contributed by E.R., 23 July 2009
In Colombia there's an economic group (holding) called Grupo
de Inversiones Suramericana S.A. (established in 1999 as
Suramericana de Inversiones S.A., INVERSURA) the parent of the
following subholdings:
- Suramericana de Seguros S.A. (<www.suramericana.com>)
first established as Compañía Suramericana de Seguros S.A., in
1944. This company in 1997 split its investments in other related
companies, aside from its core business in the insurance sector,
thus creating Suramericana de Inversiones S. A., SURAMINV, which
in turn became the mother company). Currently the name
Suramericana de Seguros S.A. gathers actually two companies (for
legal government reasons and regulatory rules in the country that
states that a company that sells life and health insurance cannot
be the same company that sells automobile and general insurance
in order not to concentrate too much risk for operational
reasons, thus having actually two companies, but in practice is
just one). These two companies are: Seguros de Vida Suramericana
S.A. and Seguros Generales Suramericana S.A.
- Compañía Suramericana Administradora de Riesgos Profesionales
y Seguros de Vida S.A., SURATEP (<www.suratep.com>)
established in 1996, now called Seguros de Riesgos Profesionales
Suramericana S.A
- Compañía Suramericana Administradora de Servicios de Salud
S.A., and Susalud Medicina Prepapgada, SUSALUD (<www.susalud.com>)
established in 1990, now both merged and called EPS y Medicina
Prepagada Suramericana S.A.
- I.P.S. Punto de Salud S.A., now called Servicios de Salud IPS
Suramericana S.A.
Sources: <www.suramericana.com>,
<www.gruposuramericana.com>.
Image attached:
The flag of Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana S.A., INVERSURA, as
well as its subholdings mentioned above, branded for maketing
reasons as SURA is the logo and the "SURA" letters in
white over a blue background, as seen in the pictures (taken May
29, 2009) here,
here,
here
and here.
The internal
company bulletin is showing the new change in logo and flag.
E.R., 23 July 2009
