Big Latin American industrial companies and groups

This article seeks to summarize the results of some studies on the structure and dynamics of the big domestically owned industrial companies and groups in five Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) and presents supplementary elements for placing them in an overall perspective. The studies include individual analyses of 46 leading companies (in Brazil, Chile and Colombia) and 15 economic groups with an industrial base (in Brazil and Mexico), together with aggregated studies of such groups in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.