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region. Design and architecture of its streets are
geared to promote pleasant open-air walks. It has
a total social and cultural activity center for all ages,
a 1,750-seat Cinemark chain distributed in 8 movie
theaters, shows, concerts, restaurants, bars and
coffee houses. It has more than 123 concepts that
offer from national to international food for all ages.
It offers over 2500 eating spaces in the same place,
over 100 shops with the most popular brands, as well
as, Almacenes Siman, the largest department store
of the Central American region with 14 departments
spread over 10,000 square meters.
“Gran Vía is evolving to a multiuse place with
the Marriott Courtyard Hotel, the surrounding
construction of commercial and housing
development to put together everything needed for
home and decoration, an office center where Banco
Promerica has its headquarters, plus, over 2000
parking spaces to provide more comfort to visitors.”
Coralia Guerra, General Manager
LABORATORIOS LÓPEZ
Gustavo López Davidson
President
Blvd. del Ejército Nacional Km 5½, San Salvador
Tel: (+503) 2277 8333 / 2277 6166
Fax: (+503) 2227 2783
info@lablopez.com.sv
www.lablopez.com.sv
Date of creation: 1949
Income: approximately 40 million US Dollars
Number of Employees: 450
Laboratorio López S.A. de C.V. was founded in 1949
by Dr. Gustavo Adolfo López and his wife Doña
Thema Davidson de López.
Currently, Laboratorios López has approximately
19,553.81 square meters, with buildings that shelter
the different departments, at Blvd. El Ejercito in the
city of San Salvador.
There are over 450 people among Chemists-
Pharmaceutical professionals, Chemists Analysts,
Industrial Engineers, Business Administrators,
Marketing and Finance Experts working in the
different phases, to manufacture 180 products:
antibiotics, anti-ulcers, eye drops, vitamins, anti-
inflammatory, anti-hypertension, anti-parasites, anti-
histaminic, mucolytic, anti-viral, antimycotic, etc. Its
presentations include tablets, syrups, pills, creams,
drinkable ampoules, injections, for which the
following control divisions have been established:
• Éticos (Ethics)
• GAL
• Productos Populares (Popular Products)
• OTC
National acceptance of the different products,
move the company to cross the national borders,
beginning exporting to the neighboring countries of
Guatemala and Nicaragua. Currently, Laboratorios
López also exports to Mexico and is considering the
possibility of export to several Eastern European and
African countries.
Laboratorio López, like the majority of companies,
has had to adapt to the demanding changes from
globalization. For this reason, it established the
representation to El Salvador of a world company,
BAXTER, that has a long experience in the
preparation of saline solutions, production of dialysis
equipment and manufacturing of surgery clothing,
among others.
In 2000 the company was nominated distributor
of important companies such as BDF, with Nivea
brand, among others and recently the house
GRUNENTHAL.
“Laboratorio López manages itself in
pharmaceutical, (innovation, trust and excellence)
looking to improve human quality.”
SIGMA Q
Henry Yarhi
President
Calle La Mascota 979, San Salvador
Tel: (+503) 2254 2523 / 2277 1681
Fax: (+503) 2227 4411
Tessay@corp.sigmagroup.com
www.sigmaq.com
Sigma was founded in 1969 as a merger of sev-
eral packing companies. It produces plastic, flexible
plastic packing reels, laminates. Previously known
as Yarhi, S.A. it joined other companies that had the
same interests. Among them are Cartonera Cen-
troamericana, S.A., Rotoflex, S.A. and Industrias
Gráficas Salvadoreñas, S.A. The name of Sigma
was selected for its relation with the Greek letter “sig-
ma”, that describes as integration. What it was actu-
ally doing was integrating interests and companies.