Peru has a "highly specialized, competitive and innovative" services sector with "high added value and differentiated costs," making it the country's second source of exports that will now be marketed globally under the brand name Peru Xpert.
The Peru Xpert brand will be officially presented this week during the 10th edition of the "Peru Service Summit," Latin America's largest service sector platform, which this year will be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Peru Xpert will be born here. It is the sectoral brand that will identify the country's exportation of services, which is among the largest source of exportables in Peru and which is extensive in terms of promoting human capital and technological innovation for services," Exports and Tourism Promotion Board (PromPeru) Executive-President Luis Torres told Efe.
Image of a sector
The idea behind the brand is to enhance the image of the sector and of a country where there is "an ancient legacy of the use of technology" and currently "where Peruvian entrepreneurs have added quality and excellence when offering variety, solutions, guarantee of trust and competitiveness, and "a notorious cost differential," Torres added.
"Peru Xpert will provide an identity, like the one already given for other products such as the 'superfoods' pisco or alpaca ... It will be an important brand, which will reaffirm good business practices and give an identity to an international marketing that supports service providers in Latin America, the US and Europe," he said.
For Alvaro Borda, general producer of the Peruvian animation studio Maneki, the existence of this new brand that serves as an umbrella for a sector "that has a lot to offer" is a "great opportunity for Peru."
"In our case, animation, the industry is becoming more and more powerful and until a few years ago we did not think that Peru would be able to export and that the eyes of the world would see the quality of the animation. But for about the last two or three years the content industry has grown exponentially," Borda said.
In his opinion, advances made "in the creative part," in having "interesting prices," providing "optimal services" and having "a technique that allows quality and speed" are equations that the Peruvian sector can contribute to growth in the foreign market.
Specific niches
The "Peru Xpert" brand will also serve to show the world some specialized and high-tech services that the country can offer, Javier Martinez, director of company Vibrotechnology, told Efe.
This Peruvian company offers —with its own technology and software— services to the mining and energy sectors and infrastructure for the control and prevention of industrial vibrations.
"We are technology in a mining country that always has these types of problems. And we have generated our own solutions. And that helps us to go out to the Caribbean, to the rest of America ... that a mining country unites its experience in this field with software is something rich and interesting. But as a single company we are young, our voice would not be heard. The country brand will allow us to make things more fluid," Martinez explained.
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Published: 9/21/2020