At Grupo HAME we celebrate the start of planting two new banana farms for export in the Ayutla area, San Marcos. This achievement has been possible thanks to the perseverance and teamwork of the great HAME family. The new banana plantations located in the Valle Verde farms have two packing plants that meet the highest quality standards, complying w...
Grupo HAME joins the efforts for the conservation of the Ocosito basin
As part of the actions promoted through the Ocosito Basin Technical Roundtable, Grupo HAME participated in the launch of reforestation programs with the assistance of authorities and different sectors that actively participate in the conservation of the basin. This reforestation day was carried out within the framework of Arbor Day, which is commem...
Grupo HAME promoting development
Guate is your Land, stay! The 2021 edition ends in the Frontera and Coatepeque area, with the closing event and graduation of 130 young people from the town. Guate es tu Tierra ¡Quédate! is Grupo HAME's social platform that focuses on working with women and young people, making them protagonists of their own development, which allows them to improv...
Grupo HAME recognized for its social management and environmental performance
During the XVI Edition of the "Recognition of Business Sustainability", carried out by the Guatemalan American Chamber of Commerce -AmCham-, Grupo HAME was awarded the award in the social category for its Guate es tu Tierra ¡Quédate! Program. Likewise, with the honorable mention in the environment category. This Recognition rewards companies for th...
Grupo HAME joins the reforestation actions of the Ocosito River basin
At Grupo HAME we joined the awareness and reforestation activities of the Sembrando Huella 2022 program, as members of the Technical Table of the Ocosito River Basin that took place on the San José La Gloria farm, Retalhuleu, on May 26, where They planted 300 bushes of species native to the region. We work together Through the Ocosito River Basin T...
Grupo HAME receives recognition from the Ministry of Labor for generating decent work
At Grupo HAME we received the Certificate of Good Labor Practices (BPL) from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, for being a socially responsible employer that promotes decent, fair and equitable work, faithful to our purpose of being a place where our collaborators can grow and develop. This recognition was delivered to our companies Olmeca...
Grupo HAME participates in the annual RSPO Round Table conference
Eduardo Castañeda, Deputy Director of Sustainability and Irene Aycinena, Sustainability Assurance Manager, together with Karen Rosales, Executive Director of GREPALMA, participated in the event "Partners for the next 20", organized by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil - RSPO , in Jakarta, Indonesia, in which the main challenges facing the sus...
Grupo HAME supports the development of communities
REPSA, a Grupo HAME company, closed the third promotion of the Guate es tu Tierra, ¡Quédate! program. where 150 young people participated, who received technical courses such as gastronomy, baking, electricity, crafts, hair cutting and a specialty as a beauty instructor. The event held at the Agroecological Field School (ECA) included th...
At Grupo HAME we reaffirm our commitment to the environment
Santa Rosa, a Grupo HAME company, participated in a garbage collection and cleaning day on El Semillero beach, in Tiquisate, Escuintla, as part of the Clean Beaches Program of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, which aims to conserve beaches free of waste and solid waste, and avoid contamination of water sources. This day inclu...
Grupo HAME sustainability and transparency
On the way to sustainable palm oil production, since 2018 we have been part of the transparency audit carried out by the Zoological Society of London, through its SPOTT * platform, ranking fourth highest in Latin America, thanks to responsible practices. and sustainable that we implement in our operations. In 2019 and 2020 we participated with our ...
Entrepreneurship Fair held at REPSA
Music, food and fun was the ideal setting for the Entrepreneurship Fair promoted by REPSA, a HAME Group company, in which more than 50 microenterprises promoted their services and sold their products made from their own manufacturing. On this occasion there were sales of typical food, bakery, pastries and sweets; crafts such as baskets, hammocks an...
We participate in the United Nations Forum
Eduardo Castañeda, Deputy Director of Sustainability, and Irene Aycinena, Sustainability Assurance Manager, are part of the Guatemalan delegation participating in the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. Aycinena will participate in the session "Worker-Driven Solutions in Global Supply Chains: A Practical Perspe...
Deputy Director for Latin America of RSPO visits Grupo HAME
The HAME Group Sustainability team received a visit from Camilo Santos Arévalo, Deputy Director for Latin America of the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil – RSPO (for its acronym in English) with the aim of identifying future actions to advance production sustainable palm oil.
Cobblestone project will benefit Tiquisate communities
The companies Bellamar and Santa Rosa, part of Grupo HAME, delivered a 5,500 square meter paving project that will benefit the communities of Champas Pinula, Almolonga and Pinula in the municipality of Tiquisate, Escuintla. The ceremonial event was attended by the municipal mayor Juan Francisco Carias Vivar, the priest José Luis Paiz and members of...
What a pride to belong to the HAME Family!
Our large HAME Family has been recognized among the 50 Most Attractive Companies to Work for by Tecoloco, a leading regional recruitment company. It is an achievement and a great pride to be among the companies with the best quality of work life and the best organizational culture. #SomosHAME We Cultivate Prosperity
REPSA works for the prevention and safety of its collaborators
The team at the REPSA Extractor Plant II, a HAME Group company, celebrated its first record of 365 without work accidents, an achievement achieved thanks to teamwork, cooperation and faithful monitoring of safety measures. To guarantee the safety of employees, the Extractor Plant II team has drawn up a plan focused on proactive risk prevention and ...
We participated as Exhibitors in the First Inter-American Conference of the RSPO
Irene Aycinena, Sustainability Assurance Manager, participated in the "Verifying what matters" Forum sharing about our actions in palm oil compliance and traceability systems. This Conference was held in Miami from May 30 to 31 and brought together key players in the palm oil industry in Latin America and North America. It focused on the topic "Fro...
We present our practices in Occupational Health and Safety in the 9th. Pan American Congress of Occupational Hygiene
At Grupo HAME we participated this May 4 in the Forum: Sustainable Development Goals. Decent Work and its relationship with Safety and Health at Work in which we present the good practices implemented in our operations to achieve a safe and healthy work environment. Rolando Mérida, Business Management Manager, was one of the six invited panelists. ...
Reforestation Day celebrates National Tree Day
This Wednesday, May 22, in the national celebration of Tree Day, REPSA carried out a reforestation day with more than 100 students from different communities in Sayaxché, Petén. The Agro-Environmental Field School received students from the El Pato, La Ceiba and Mirador communities to carry out different topics around raising awareness of the impor...
Sharing our experiences in important national forums
We participated as exhibitors of our good environmental practices for the protection of biodiversity in our palm operations in the presentation of the study "Evaluation of existing biodiversity in the oil palm plantation system in Guatemala", prepared by GREPALMA with the support of the Center of Environmental and Biodiversity Studies at the Univer...