News (Noticias) Tagged ‘Chile’

Wines of Chile invites professionals and amateurs alike to experience the evolution of Chilean wines during the third annual Salud! Chilean Wine Fest. This citywide celebration begins on September 18, Chile’s Independence Day, and runs until the end of September. Thirty of New York’s most acclaimed restaurants and ten of the city’s best wine shops have joined with Wines of Chile to offer consumers the opportunity to sample Chilean wines by the glass and participate in free in-store tastings. Salud! will give consumers the opportunity to better familiarize themselves with Chile’s premium quality wines and diverse terroirs.
Participating restaurants will be showcasing a sampling of Chile’s most celebrated varietals including Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenere, as well as a host of top-notch red blends. In addition, retailers will be offering Chilean wine tastings throughout the 2 weeks of the celebration, featuring some of Chile’s emerging varieties such as Pinot Noir and Syrah.
“The Salud program has enabled some of New York’s best restaurants to introduce their customers to the exciting wines that are now emerging from Chile,” explains Juan Somavia, Managing Director of Wines of Chile. “In hosting Chilean wine tastings, retailers around the city have come to recognize the growing demand for wine education and we are thrilled to be able to satisfy this need.”

Participating New York Restaurants Include:

154 South Gate
2 West at The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park
A Voce
Blue Fin
Blue Water Grill
Calle Ocho
Churrascaria Plataforma
Churrascaria Riodizio Tribeca
Crema Restaurante
Ditch Plains
Dos Caminos - Park Avenue
Dos Caminos - Soho
Dos Caminos - Third Avenue
Dylan Prime
Eighty One
Landmarc - Time Warner Center
Landmarc - Tribeca
Los Dados
Lucy
Paris Commune
Pipa
Porcao Churrascaria
Rosa Mexicano - Midtown East
Rosa Mexicano - Union Square
Rosa Mexicano - Upper West Side
Spice Market
Suenos
Thalassa
The Modern
Tribeca Grill

Participating New York Wine Stores Offering Chilean Wine Tastings Include:

67 Wines & Spirits
Saturday, September 20th
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
179 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023

Astor Wines & Spirits
Saturday, September 20th
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
399 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003

Beekman Liquors
Friday, September 19th
4:00 - 7:00 PM
500 Lexington Avenue
NY, NY 10017

Bottlerocket
Friday, September 19th
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
5 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011

Chelsea Wine Vault
Thursday, September 18th
7:00 - 9:00 pm
75 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
*$30 per person

Morrell & Company
Thursday, September 25th
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
One Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10020

Red, White, and Bubbly
Sunday, September 21st
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
211-213 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215

September Wines & Spirits
Thursday, September 18th
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
100 Stanton Street
New York, NY 10002

Union Square Wines & Spirits
Wednesday, September 24th
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
140 Fourth Avenue
New York, NY 10003

Zachys Wine
Saturday, September 27th
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
16 East Parkway
Scarsdale, NY 10583

In recent years, Chile’s winemakers have pushed the frontiers to seek new regions to plant cool climate varieties. They have experienced great success with Pinot Noir and Syrah, which have been growing in popularity in the U.S. According to the most recent Gomberg-Fredrikson Report, which included statistics through June 2008, Pinot Noir from Chile has increased in the U.S. by 21,300 nine-liter cases (+44%) over 2007 and Chilean Syrah has increased by 14,800 nine-liter cases (+56%). Sauvignon Blanc and Carmenere, Chile’s unique grape, have also shown marked gains, increasing by 25,900 nine-liter cases (14%) and 5,300 nine-liter cases (7%) respectively. Overall, Chilean wine has rapidly increased its presence in the U.S. market, climbing 13% by volume in 2007.
About Wines of Chile
Wines of Chile is a promotional body that represents 77 Chilean wineries with offices in Santiago, London and New York. Its members belong to Vinos de Chile. Wines of Chile was founded in July 2002 to position Chilean wine around the world through strategic marketing and promotional activities. For more information please visit www.winesofchile.org

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Sorpresa!, America’s fastest-growing Spanish-language children’s network, will launch the popular live-action Chilean teen TV series, Karku, for U.S. Hispanic tween and teen audiences on August 25 at 9 p.m. ET. Premiering as part of Sorpresa!’s “back-to-school” celebration, Hispanic teens across the U.S. are invited into the world of 13-year-old Emilia and her five friends as they experience the trials and tribulations of growing up.
“Karku offers our audience of Hispanic youth an in-culture, in-language experience that reflects the universal fears and excitement of transitioning from a child to a young adult,” said Maria Badillo, SVP of Programming for Sorpresa!. “The tween and teen audience will identify with the challenges and successes of the characters, and parents will appreciate the show’s emphasis on the value of hard work to achieve goals.”
Set in metropolitan Santiago, Chile, Karku is the first TV series for kids produced in Latin America that follows a telenovela format. The premiere season of Karku follows Emilia and her friends, Fernanda, Valentina, Zico, Alex and Martin, as they work together to earn money for their school’s year-end trip. The series not only represents the reality of the teenage world - their language, their music, their dreams and their fears - but it also promotes traditional values like diligence, teamwork and friendship.
New episodes of Karku will premiere on Sorpresa! on every Monday through Thursday at 9 p.m. ET. “

The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC), the leading advocate for the more than 2.5 million Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States, is pleased to announce that Hilda Rayas will serve as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the organization. Rayas brings to the USHCC more than 25 years of documented success in global leadership, minority business advocacy and executive level management.

“We are very pleased to have Hilda join our team,” said USHCC Chairman David C. Lizárraga. “Her wide ranging experience with organizational management, strategic planning, and oversight, along with her deep commitment to the Hispanic community will be an exceptional asset to our organization. She will play a vital role as we continue to refine the focus of our organization, strengthen our structure, and develop exciting new partnerships.”

Most recently, Rayas served as Director of the Interracial Council for Business Opportunities (ICBO) in New York. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Sales and Community Outreach for the New Jersey-based Liberty Science Center, where she managed organizational objectives ranging from revenue generation to streamlining operations.

Her many professional achievements include: obtaining $8B in international consumer long distance revenue in a highly competitive Mexico market, managing budgets of up to $160M and a work force of 5,000 employees, and designing and developing an integrated $135M marketing plan for Puerto Rico while strengthening client relations in a competitive Latino market. In almost ten years of working for AT&T, Rayas also navigated complex political situations in both the USA and Latin America/Caribbean resulting in the company’s entry into Spain, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.

“Rayas is a perfect example of the strong Latina leadership that is so prominent in our Hispanic business community today,” Lizáarraga continued. “She joins our organization during an exciting time as we gear up for the 29th Annual Convention and Business Expo in Sacramento, California, this September. I couldn’t be more confident that she will help lead and strengthen our events, programs and initiatives in order to better serve our constituents.”

“The political landscape is rapidly changing and now is the time for immense progress in this arena,” said Hilda Rayas. “I am passionate and excited about the key role Hispanics will continue to play in America’s future. I am honored to be of service to this organization to help move this necessary and important agenda to the forefront of mainstream America.”

As COO of the organization, Rayas will have dual responsibility for the financial management and all internal operations of the Chamber as well as oversight of the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

Rayas was born in Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico, and raised in El Paso, Texas. Rayas has been appointed to various leadership positions for the United States Hispanic Advocacy Association (USHAA), Hudson County Chamber of Commerce and the Hispanic B2B Committee. She is a graduate of numerous Executive Level Education Programs including: University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Dartmouth University, and Harvard University. “

PODER Magazine acquires Hispanic Enterprise magazine and launches local editions in Venezuela, Argentina and Peru, in addition to its existing publications in Miami, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. “*

La banda chilena Lucybell presentó en Ciudad de México su nuevo disco Primitivo, con el cual regresaron a sus raíces y que es el más roquero de su historia.”*

Marketwire, a full-service newswire and communications workflow solutions provider, today announces the debut of NoticiasDigitales, the newswire industry’s first real-time business-to-consumer digital news service to publish Spanish-language news on Latin American websites. An enhancement to its Spanish-language press release distribution circuits, Marketwire’s NoticiasDigitales displays press releases on more than 100 leading newspaper, financial and economic news, and media websites and portals that bring corporate news to millions of influential Spanish-speaking viewers across North America, Central America and South America.

“With the rapid growth of social media and ‘citizen journalism,’ the future of the newswire industry depends on leveraging new technologies to offer effective business-to-consumer news delivery solutions,” commented Marketwire Vice President of Emerging Markets Hector Botero. “Ethnic, emerging and international markets represent enormous, untapped opportunities for an online digital news distribution service, and we are extremely excited to launch an industry first to our clients who target Spanish-speaking audiences.”

Participants in the large web network at the core of Marketwire’s NoticiasDigitales include major news media, business, finance and technology websites published in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. Examples of participating websites are Caracol Radio, Clarín.com, Dinero.com, El Universal.com and Nacion.com.

A 30-day testing period revealed that between June 11 and July 11, 2008, Marketwire’s NoticiasDigitales received more than 4 million total impressions from visitors in 21 countries. Thirty percent, or 1.2 million of those impressions came from visitors in Colombia, an economy growing at 6.8 percent a year (two full points faster than the Latin American average); 29 percent, or 1.18 million of the impressions were from the United States; 13 percent, or 520,000 impressions, came from visitors in Argentina, a country that has experienced four consecutive years of more than 8 percent growth in GDP; and 11 percent, or 431,000 impressions, came from Mexico, a country counting the United States as its largest trading partner.

Now, by adding more than 100 websites and 3 million-plus monthly views to its comprehensive Latin America distribution circuits that, combined, reach more than 80,000 media points in Latin America, Marketwire reinforces its position as the leading Latin American market press release distributor. NoticiasDigitales is included in all of Marketwire’s Spanish-language press release distribution circuits: five Latin America/South America distribution packages; newslines to 17 Latin American countries; and its industry-leading North America Hispanic newsline that reaches more than 5,000 journalists and editors through Marketwire’s NoticiasFinancieras news syndicate generating news for print publications with combined circulation exceeding 3 million daily, and readership, including web properties, exceeding 10 million.

About Marketwire

The only fully integrated North America-based global newswire, Marketwire, Inc. is a full-service partner to IR, PR and MarCom professionals seeking top-tier news distribution, media management, multimedia and monitoring solutions. Marketwire’s customer-centric corporate philosophy focuses on being the best by infusing every aspect of its business with the following core attributes: precision, adaptability, innovation and simplicity.

Marketwire delivers its clients’ news to the world’s media and financial communities, fulfilling disclosure requirements in North America in compliance with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), and serving as Primary Information Provider (PIP) with the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA). With a reputation for technology leadership, Marketwire offers innovative products and services — including Social Media, Search Engine Optimization, Dashboard Mobile Financial, News Dashboard coverage reports, exclusive access to networks such as the Canadian Press Wire Network, Easy IR and Easy PR workflow solutions, and more — that help communication professionals maximize their effectiveness while ensuring accuracy and best practices.

Having merged companies (Market Wire and CCNMatthews) in April 2006, and enjoying a combined history of 25 years of service, Marketwire is now majority-owned by OMERS Capital Partners, the private equity arm of one of Canada’s largest pension funds. Marketwire distributes the majority of press releases issued by publicly traded companies in Canada and serves more than 8,000 clients worldwide through 19 offices on four continents. For more information, visit us at www.marketwire.com. “*

Bach, Woody Guthrie, Led Zeppelin and the Chilean tonada “Yo vendo unos ojos negros” — with a Mexican accent.

That’s just a sample of the music the Chicago band Sones de México may play during its New York debut tonight at Joe’s Pub.”*