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Our growth-seeking strategies, creative culture and multi-talented leadership guarantee the success of our diversified portfolio.
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Grupo Ferré Rangel is a Puerto Rico-based, family-owned, consumer-centric, strategic investment holding company committed to bringing results and producing value where it really matters: our businesses, our families and our communities.
Guided by a commitment to entrepreneurship, Grupo Ferré Rangel pursues investment discipline, sustainable growth, value creation and social empowerment.
This discipline has been a constant throughout our 100 years of entrepreneurship and the Company's relentless transformation has been the result of anticipating change and laying the groundwork for future growth.
The focus of our diversified portfolio of companies responds to business growth-seeking strategies, our creative culture and an engaged and multi-talented leadership. The group selectively owns and invests in a value growth portfolio of leading companies that include Real Estate, Media, Customer Engagement and Social Innovation.
The group’s iconic properties include GFR Media, its media arm and the parent company of many brands, including Puerto Rico's leading newspapers El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora.
Headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico with operations on the Island, the United States and Latin America.
Our growth-seeking strategies, creative culture and multi-talented leadership guarantee the success of our diversified portfolio.
Kingbird Investment Management invests in underserved renter-by necessity multifamily workforce housing through ventures with local operating partners. Its global institutional lens and capital management capabilities have allowed it to gain access to a universe of investment opportunities with compelling risk-adjusted returns.
Kingbird executes its value-add investment strategy by using a research-driven approach that targets high-yielding multifamily investment opportunities that benefit from mispriced risk, demographic growth trends and supply/demand voids.
The Company's executive management team has over 60 years of real estate investment experience with first-tier public companies, institutional real estate funds and family offices. The team capitalizes on market inefficiencies to achieve stable cash flow, and value appreciation, while minimizing downside risk exposure.
Kingbird provides a vertically-integrated investment management capability starting from the initial investment through the exit process.
Risk-adjusted opportunities in secondary and tertiary U.S. markets that have growing demand, particularly for workforce housing.
Risk-adjusted opportunities in primary first-tier Latin America markets that have growing demand, particularly for multifamily rental apartments and student housing.
Partner with local property managers / Invest with high net worth individuals / Invest with family offices as partners.
GFR Media is a content/media company providing audience-centric, intelligence-driven solutions, powered by the reach of the leading print and digital platforms in Puerto Rico.
GFR Media and its brands have a strong and long-standing commitment to the values of independent, in-depth and responsible journalism, and its potential to enhance democracy and to strengthen society.
A multi-decade legacy of publishing the most influential Spanish language newspapers in the United States, Puerto Rico’s #1 and #2 publications, GFR Media has the broadest audience reach and engagement in the Island, throughout its digital touchpoints and brands.
PUERTO RICO'S
NEWSPAPER OF RECORD.
LEADING MIDDLE-MARKET
FREE NEWSPAPER.
Brandshare Studio creates and distributes branded content campaigns that amplify a client's brand awareness and reach.
We distribute the content through our ecosystem and third-party points of contact to increase reach, influence and conversions for our clients.
Reaching customers through event productions, promotions, activations and customized experiences that create intimacy between the brand and its customers.
View case studies and more info (in Spanish)With an ever-expanding inventory of billboards throughout Puerto Rico, GFR Media provides constant brand presence to a car-centric society.
View more info (in Spanish)Whether through classifieds, daily deals or foodie reviews, our brands cater to consumer tastes, wants and needs.
Audiences are constantly on the lookout for content, entertainment or to fulfill their needs. Our commercial brands do all of this and more, while enriching our audience intelligence:
We deliver ‘intelligent’ audience targeting and contactability, leading to improved customers' ROIs. Our data sources are complemented with strategic data partnerships to amplify reach, touchpoints and enhance audience segmentation.
Digital, print and real-world experiences derived from audience insights.
Linkactiv Group is a Business Process Outsourcing solutions provider that serves global brands through carefully crafted multi-lingual, multi-channel programs that interact with a consumer base to capture and create value for our clients.
25 years delivering world class customer solutions through the total integrations of our multi-channel, bicultural contact, mailing and fulfillment center.
From one original site in Guaynabo, the operation has developed into a multi-site, multi-company division partnering with top industry leaders, and always seeking for new business opportunities.
As the #1 customer engagement solutions provider in Puerto Rico it has the experience, scale and skills to offer clients unparalleled customer engagement ROI.
Customer Engagement Division is a one-stop-shop for all your customer engagement needs. It has the capacity to manage the whole process from initial outbound lead generation to fulfillment of offers.
The printing capabilities allow it to produce from simple direct mail letters to complex directories.
The technological capability can help you design and implement the most up-to-date digital and data solutions.
1,400 BILINGUAL
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1,000 COMUNICATION
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+175,000 MONTHLY
CAMPAIGN HOURS
+60M YEARLY PIECES
OF MAIL HANDLED
The Partner Of Choice
In addition to owning a portfolio of established and well-respected businesses, Grupo Ferré Rangel is actively pursuing direct private equity and venture capital investments in high growth industries.
We invest globally, yet remain committed to investments in Puerto Rico that offer win-win opportunities that leverage tax incentives while rebuilding and enhancing the communities we serve.
For more than 100 years the Ferré Rangel family has leveraged its operational expertise, key relationships and diversified industry knowledge to foster long-term, sustainable growth.
These are the industries that we seek to invest in. We are especially interested in innovative business models drawing on data science and artificial intelligence.
If you have an investment opportunity that you would like us to evaluate, please contact [email protected].
Social
Innovation
For more than a century, social commitment has been at the center of our family's entrepreneurial tradition, allowing the Group to create social value by leveraging on our core business competencies, philanthropic work and employee engagement. We established a dedicated Social Innovation structure within the business to systematically and formally engage in social entrepreneurship, impact investing and employee-led initiatives.
Grupo Ferré Rangel's Social Innovation division is guided by the United Nation's sustainable development goals
Our Objectives
Create social change through collaborative and innovative strategies that make use of entrepreneurial principles and strategies to tackle the root of social problems and systematically nurture and invest in permanent solutions.
Pursue global and local partnerships that drive sustainable economic development at all socioeconomic levels.
Exchange knowledge, experience, talent and resources to create socially innovative ventures that serve our communities.
Our efforts follow a multi-disciplinary approach centered on individual and collective empowerment, civic engagement, democracy, arts, culture and education.
Our areas of focus
Impact Investing
We support organizations that help generate beneficial social and environmental impact.
BackEmployee-led Initiatives (Abrazo Solidario)
Employee-led social commitment initiatives impacting internal stakeholders and the communities surrounding our businesses.
Projects have ranged from post-hurricane disaster relief efforts to back-to-school initiatives and emergency funds for employees.
BackSocial Entrepreneurship
We seek lasting change by backing entities that deploy effective solutions to challenge systemic social and environmental issues.
Entities we collaborate with:
- Centros Sor Isolina Ferré
- Agenda Ciudadana
- Universidad del Sagrado Corazón´s Escuela de Comunicaciones Ferré Rangel
- Museo de Arte de Ponce
- Multisensory Reading Centers
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