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~ 05/09/07

by Rod Hughes

The four-year-old Hewlet-Packard operation here is expanding, adding another 2,000 jobs, The Tico Times reported recently. The computer multi-national’s offices in Heredia north of San Jose currently has nearly 5,000 Costa Ricans in service-related posts. HP operates 2 divisions in Costa Rica, one does sales and marketing in Central America and the other offers global outsourcing services to business customers.

The announcement was made last week at H-P headquarters in a press conference attended by First Vice President Kevin Casas, Foreign Trade Minister Marco Vinicio Ruiz and Minister of the Economy Jorge Woodbridge.