Editing Vigatec (Chile)

{{Short description|Chilean corporation}}
{{Infobox company|
| name = Vigatec
| type = '''Corporation'''
| logo = <!--  Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:Vigatec Logo 2.JPG]] -->
| foundation = 1980
| location =  [[Santiago, Chile]]
| industry = [[Office equipment]]
| products = [[Plastic Cards]], [[Mail Handling Equipment]], etc.
| revenue = {{profit}} [[Chilean peso|S/.]] '''?''' [[1000000000 (number)|million]] (2006)
| net_income = {{loss}} [[Chilean peso|S/.]] '''?''' [[1000000000 (number)|million]] (2006)
| key_people =
| num_employees =
| homepage = https://web.archive.org/web/20060901194139/http://www.vigatec.cl:80/
}}

'''Vigatec''' is a [[Chile]]an [[corporation]] founded in 1980. The company headquarters is in [[Santiago de Chile]], and it has [[subsidiary|subsidiaries]] in [[Ecuador]], [[Bolivia]] and [[Brazil]]. Vigatec currently has about 200 employees.

Vigatec has several products and services:
*The reselling and [[marketing]] of various types of plastic cards (like: [[Automatic teller machine|ATM]] cards, various [[credit card]]s, [[Telephone card|phone cards]], loyalty program cards, etc.).
*[[Mail handling]] equipment.
*Control & security systems.
*[[Packaging]] equipment.

In Chile, Vigatec is the exclusive reseller of the following [[brand]]s: [[Datacard]], [[Pitney Bowes]], [[Kyocera Mita]], [[Rexel]], Tempo, Mach, Linear, [[Synel]], [[Secom]], and [[Thermo Electron]].

== History ==

Vigatec was founded in 1980 as a division of [[Vigamil]], a [[paper]] [[envelope]] [[manufacturing]] company.

In 1991, Vigatec started selling products for ''attendance & access control''.

In 1999 the company started selling security products (alarms, [[Closed-circuit television|CCTV]] equipment)

== Labor oriented initiatives ==
Vigatec has initiated several [[labour (economics)|labor]] environment improvement projects:
* The ''Second generation plan'' is a summer work program directed at the children (between 14 and 18 years of age) of the employees.
* Vigatec is willing to pay, for children of the employees, the registration and monthly costs of studies in the pre-university institute of the [[Catholic]] [[University]] in [[San Joaquín]].
* An ''Internet for all'' program which means that in the summer months there is a special room with [[computer]]s connected to the [[Internet]], so the employees, with or without their children, could use them to for their personal interests.
* A ''Vocational & professional orientation program'' to help the children of their employees to explore their motivations and interests

==External links==
*[http://www.vigatec.cl Vigatec web site]

[[Category:Companies of Chile]]
[[Category:Companies based in Santiago, Chile]]
[[Category:Business services companies established in 1980]]
[[Category:Chilean companies established in 1980]]


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