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The Colombian videogame industry have a healthy participation in Gamescom 2016, a fair that eight local companies are visiting, and using this opportunity to take their products to consumers and establish commercial relations with some of the largest company of this industry at a global level.

Colombia has consolidated as a world-class player in the videogame industry. With sales of US$264 million, the country is ranked as the fourth most important country in this industry in Latin America.

100 Colombian companies from the IT and digital content industry are expected to attend the Colombia Bring it on -  On tour Business Matchmaking Forum in Miami, FL on September 8th and 9th at the Diplomat hotel (3555 S Ocean Drive. Hollywood) during its third edition in North America. The event aims to showcase Colombian suppliers along with its campaign that began in 2013 when it was first launched in New York City.

ProColombia is thrilled to announce an all-star group of speakers will be joining us for the upcoming Business Matchmaking Forum for ICT companies in Toronto. From angel investors to entrepreneurs to futurists, we have rounded a fantastic team of experts who will shed a light on the local ICT industry for visiting Colombian companies.

A year ago, Colombia launched its “Colombia Bring IT On” campaign to promote the country’s growing IT, Software and Digital services sector with a high-profile event in New York City that gathered hundreds of entrepreneurs and buyers under one roof with a conference and business matchmaking forum. Next month, the ambitious campaign will launch in Canada with a similar event in Toronto, hosted by ProColombia and the Colombian Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications. (Stay tuned!).

The president of ProColombia, María Claudia Lacouture met with Colombian businessmen in South Korea to show trade opportunities between the two countries in the South Korea, Latin America and The Caribbean Business Summit.

ProColombia presented investment opportunities in Colombia to a group of 50 multinational companies from South Korea. These companies are of the same size as Daewoo, Samsung, Korea Expressway and Engine Biz team.

Two of the most important international business media channels and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development noted in recent days that Colombia offers advantages over other countries in the region for foreign investment.

In the most recent assessment of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD highlighted Colombia as the fourth largest economy in Latin America that continues to have short-term solid growth prospects compared with other OECD countries and within the region.

The completion of the FTA will open Colombia up to an additional 503 million consumers across 27 countries. Research shows that the consumption of a 'Euro consumer' is close to USD 32,000 - four times that of Colombia, so a significant new buying power.

With this agreement, Colombia is predicted to not only witness a rise in the exports of goods and services, but to attract more European investment and serve as a platform for other countries in the region without agreement with the Europeans.

This is the result of the international promotion of Colombia as destination for direct foreign investment in sectors other than Mine and Energy, which also generated 329 opportunities in 14 provinces.