Tradition does not fail and in this year, where the tourism coming from Argentinawas clearly reactivated, important businessmen from the neighboring country they chose Punta del Este and surrounding spas to spend the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025.
As happens with most tourists, the peak of business visitors began to occur on December 23, although this year it was predicted that some will spend more days than expected, even arriving in mid-January, beyond those who already live all year round in the main resort of the Uruguay.
He summer It is also a reason for informal meetings for many of them, where, at the tables of distinguished restaurants such as La Huella de José Ignacio, The Breezes of Enjoy Punta del Este (where the Noble Herrera spent the end of the year, in addition to several former athletes) or Medio y Medio de Ballena Point, Important deals have been concluded.
Two days later, the party continued, after December 27, when the business group Lot 8 organized an exclusive lunch to present its line of extra virgin olive oils, bringing together prominent business figures from Argentina and Uruguay. Among those attending were José Luis Manzano, owner of Lot 8; Alejandro Bulgheroni, Jorge Brito, Cristiano Rattazzi and Alejandro MacFarlane, entrepreneur in the energy sector.
The international presence was marked by John Pfeffer, founder of Pfeffer Capital; Brian Falik, investment director of Mercuria; and Luis Mornaghi, president of Global Equity, brokerage company, who enjoyed cocktails and evening talks at José Ignacio. Some of them arrived in open-top cars and even by helicopter.
In fact, many of them are regular sunsets on those beaches in the border area between Maldonado and Rocha, which also attend Marcos Galperin, director of Free market, and the couple made up of the businessman and sports leader Rodolfo D’Onofrio and the businesswoman too Zulema Menem.
Now that 2025 has begun, another important meeting moment for businessmen and politicians, in this case from the Río de la Plata, was the presentation of Carolina del Mar, a real estate venture promoted by the La Nación group. The family was there Saguier, headed by Julio and Alejandro, but presences such as those of Bulgheroni, Ratazzi were also repeated, and that of the magnate was added Eduardo Costantini and the former manager of Diego Armando Maradona, William Coppola, inter alia. The presence there of the former court prosecutor, lawyer and future pro-secretary of the presidency, caught the attention of many. Jorge Diaz, apparently with strong business and personal ties to the hosts.
Strong intervention in gastronomy and real estate
This summer, it seems that the focus on which businessmen are putting their interest to invest is the real estate sector and also gastronomy. In fact, they have been very active in different events Manuel Valdez, commercial director of the construction company Screen, and Alejandro Ginerva, president of Madero Harbor and CNV Group, both with several projects in charge in Punta del Este.
The Argentine gastronomic businessman also arrived in the East with strong investments. Rafael Pereira, owner of pizza chains Kentucky, the restaurants Dandy (which opened its premises this year in The Bar) and the mythical Guerrin of Buenos Aires. Pereira also invested in the recovery of a historic hotel in La Barra, one block from the bridge, which he transformed into a modern apartment with 14 rooms named “La Posta Beach”. In addition, this year he plans to spend more time on the peninsula to manage his businesses in Uruguay, as an agricultural project in Carmel and the installation of a chicken-based fast food chain.
The legal and political stability of the Uruguay It is what attracts them, agree the businessmen consulted by Scope.
Source: Ambito
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