PUBLICAR

Publicar, a Carvajal Group company specializes in multimedia information focused on providing solutions aimed at generating business contacts and integrated value added content.

Publicar contributes to its clients’ productivity and people’s development by offering competitive, profitable and innovative products and services that guarantee sustainable development. Here are some of its services:   

Telephone Directories.

With over 47 years of experience Publicar is the leader in the Latin American market where it distributes over 25 million books in 7 countries, offering reliable, timely, effective and easily accessible information.

Publicar, working with cutting edge technology, has developed three separate platforms: DIRTEL to help manage telephone directory data bases. DIRSEC manages the information for specialized directories, and ADMINARTE managing diagramming and prepress. In this way, Publicar guarantees optimum quality standards in its telephone books, from sales, billing and payments, to the production and information processes to produce the final information media.    

Industry Specific Guides
Printed and electronic publications segmented by market and designed as business to business guides so that you may find the best opportunities with complete information about the most convenient suppliers for your company in Central America, Colombia and Ecuador.

Packaging Guide

Printed publication and web page that gathers packaging and bottling suppliers, equipment and parts, raw materials and area service suppliers in Colombia.
It is strategically distributed so as to reach the packaging industry’s purchasing decision makers as well as reaching the trade and industry at large.

www.CatalogodelEmpaque.com

Colombian Exporters Guide

The most complete printed and electronic guide of the Colombian Export Trade.

It includes more than 3,500 companies that export and they can be accessed by name or by product, with the information available both in English and in Spanish.

With 33 years behind it, this directory has been published for the past 37 years with the help of such organizations as Proexport, Analdex and several binational chambers of commerce in 52 countries, thus becoming the most important way of promoting Colombian products worldwide.

www.ColombiaExport.com

Food, Beverage and Supplies Guide. 

This guide both printed and on the web is directed toward those institutions that account for sizable food and beverage consumption. It brings together the most complete and specialized list of food, beverage, equipment, machinery, services and furnishings suppliers.

It is strategically distributed in Colombia to food processors, food and beverage wholesalers and distributors, supermarket chains, industrial bakeries, hotels, casinos, restaurants, hospitals and health care centers.

www.CatalogodeAlimentosyBebidas.com



Graphic Arts Industry Guide

This is the guide of the Colombian graphic arts industry backed by ANDIGRAF, the Colombian Graphic Arts Industry Association. This publication brings together products and service suppliers for the graphic arts industry as well as technology and resources available from Colombian companies for the printing processes such as pre-press, printing and finishing. 

www.CatalogoComunicacionGrafica.com

Health Care Providers Guide

Printed and Internet guide dedicated to the health care industry. It brings together equipment, supplies, furnishings and other services required by health care organizations and professionals
for their optimum performance.   

It is distributed free of charge to the purchasing decision makers in hospitals, health care centers, government health services, medical centers, diagnostics laboratories, City Halls, cities’ health facilities, subsidized medicine providers, medical associations and health professionals.

www.CatalogodelaSalud.com

Educational Services Guide

This is a search tool for the educational area, bringing together furniture, equipment, furnishings, materials, educational aids and service suppliers for this sector in Colombia.
 
It is distributed free of charge throughout the country to the purchasing decision makers in public and private educational institutions at the elementary, middle, high school and higher education levels.

www.CatalogoEducativo.com

Technology Suppliers Guide

This is a web portal specialized in equipment providers, supplies, furnishings, technology products and services, software, telecommunications and products covering all aspects of this sector.

www.CatalogodeTecnologia.com

Logistics Guide

A specialized publication that brings together the most complete list of services related
with distribution, transportation, warehousing and international shipping services as well
as logistics organizations and complementary products and services providers.

www.CatalogodeLogistica.com

PáginasAmarillas.com and Listaonline.com.br

Since 1996, the Publicar Yellow Pages on the web are the only sites of their kind operating in 15 countries in Latin America, bringing together complete information about more than 1.500.000 companies in the region.

These are sites equipped with cutting edge search engines that allow the person to find commercial information by country, city, industry, business type or simply by the use of key words, offering instant answers for accurate decision making. Classified and updated daily, they are the most accurate and trustworthy electronic directories for commercial, industrial and professional information available. 

These sites provide information on over 700 product and service categories and today they boast over 6.000.000 visitors a month.  

Contacto Inteligente

This is Publicar’s Business Unit in charge of managing our data bases both nationally and internationally.

The benefits of our data bases are:

• Effective business contacts.
• More than 6,500 business areas grouped in 25 sectors.
• Constant updating.

With these data bases, your company will improve these processes:

• Information verification
• Security
• Credit approvals
• Collections
• Client search
• Distribution
• Marketing and advertising
• Logistics
• Sales
• Communications

Services:

• Online search.
• Verification and search for NIT numbers, addresses and phone numbers nationally.

Information cross-referencing

• Off line validation and completion in batch mode of NIT numbers, company names, addresses and phone numbers on a national level.

Direct marketing

• Corroboration, market intelligence, personalized direct mail and telemarketing.

Business Analysis

• Geographically referenced reports that allow our clients to identify the business or residential segments that are of interest to their companies on a national level.

Audio Products

Publicar also offers the possibility of finding all the information available through printed or electronic media through audio channels.

• Publicar operates Directory Assistance lines (113) and in agreement with information services and telecommunication operators, provides residential and commercial phone numbers and addresses as well as up to date general interest information such as movie shows and times, cultural events, lottery and sports results, tourist guide, restaurants and delivery services, economic indicators and other handy information that clients might need.

• A series of the Call Center’s inbound and outbound services are offered either through operator or virtually through audio response tools.

• Among the many services offered are sales and post-sale management, customer service, payments and collections reminders, data base management, appointment management, help desk and marketing and survey management. 

All these services are operated in Colombia in conjunction with Contact Center Americas that is operated jointly with Empresa de Telefonos de Bogota and is able to offer these services to millions of users in different countries.
It is present through different companies in these countries: Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama.

Countries where Publicar Operates

It operates directly in Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama.

In Brazil, two companies, Listel and Editel, publish the Yellow Pages in the following states: Acre, Alagoas, Amazonas, Amapá, Creará, Distrito Federal, Espiritu Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pará, Paraná, Pariba, Pemambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Roaraima, Rondonia, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe, Tocantins. In some of these states they publish the directories for several cities.


In Colombia it operates under the names of Publicar de Colombia and Publicar S.A.

In Ecuador, through Offsetec* S.A. in association with El Comercio newspaper it publishes phone books for Quito and the central and northern provinces. And now Publicar de Ecuador publishes La Guia de Guayaquil.


www.publicar.com

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