Who comes to Costa Rica?

Intel, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble...

The beauty of this opportunity is synonymous to adding paint to a blank canvas. Well funded international corporations continue to expand and create high paying jobs by adding infrastructure to the surrounding area, resulting in a priceless work of art. Costa Rica has everything that a sophisticated, international investor needs in a global financial center.

It's a beautiful, stable and peaceful country with good privacy laws, and hard working, qualified professionals who will ensure that your assets are protec-ted. Intel has a sizable operation here in Costa Rica and contributes a very significant amount to the gross domestic product of the country.

No doubt Intel considered carefully their decision to start operations in Costa Rica. Many other multinational companies such as Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, HP, INTEL ( watch the CNBC story on this issue ) Lucent and Bristol Myers have taken advantage of the Costa Rican IT level. In thatregard, companies like Abbott Labs, Chiquita Brands, Esso, Texaco, 3M, UPS, DHL, Gillette, Warner Lambert, Xerox, Glaxo Smith Kline, Johnson & Johnson, SC Johnson, Sherwin Williams, Sony Music, Pfizer, Kimberly Clark, Manpower, Dole Fresh Fruit, Colgate Palmolive, LL Bean, Alcatel, BASF, KPMG, Price Waterhouse, Deloitte & Touche, 3-Com, Motorola, Oracle, Perkins Elmer, Western Union, Unisys and Cisco Systems have made huge investments in Costa Rica.

It is estimated that non Costa Rican companies invested over US$600 million in Costa Rica just in the year 2000 alone. Just as Intel carefully considered their decision to invest in Costa Rica so should you. So keep in mind as these large corporations increase the purchasing power of the local consumer thru well paying jobs demand for real estate will increase.