María Luisa Ferré Rangel
President & CEO,
Grupo Ferré Rangel
Publisher, GFR Media
BUSINESS
LINES
Our business growth-seeking strategies, creative culture and multi-talented leadership guarantee the success of our diversified portfolio.
Website main photography and portraits by Manuel Velez
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.
President & CEO,
Grupo Ferré Rangel
Publisher, GFR Media
Our business growth-seeking strategies, creative culture and multi-talented leadership guarantee the success of our diversified portfolio.
Kingbird Properties is a real estate investment firm that seeks value-added opportunities in secondary and tertiary markets in the U.S. and investments in South America by using in-depth market research and an extensive relationship network to identify real estate assets that stand to grow through strategic investment.
With a commitment to transparency, Kingbird Properties creates value through thoughtful investment in capital improvements, repositioning of properties, and collaborative property management arrangements with local operating partners.
The Company seeks multifamily investment opportunities in select markets with a focus on the workforce housing sector and targets markets that have demonstrated strong population growth but lack new supply.
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.
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
TELEOPERATORS
1,000 COMUNICATION
STATIONS
+175,000 MONTHLY
CAMPAIGN HOURS
+60M YEARLY PIECES
OF MAIL HANDLED
The Partner Of Choice
For more than 100 years, the Ferré Rangel family has played an integral role in the civic and business life of Puerto Rico. In addition to operating a consortium of well-respected businesses, Grupo Ferré Rangel also partners with private equity and venture capital firms on strategic investments.
We leverage our operational expertise, as well as our key relationships and in-depth knowledge of the island, in order to foster long-term, sustainable growth. We invest globally, and also remain committed to targeted investments in Puerto Rico, which we believe offers win-win opportunities to leverage tax incentives while rebuilding and fundamentally enhancing the communities we serve.
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
We are deeply committed to the belief that every individual has potential. Beyond traditional giving, our focus is social empowerment.
GFR’s social empowerment and social entrepreneurship partnerships seek lasting change, by formally providing the tools, guidance and support that power an individual to positively influence their own lives, their families, their communities and society at large.
We encourage the involvement of our executives in providing networking opportunities, custodial oversight, and long-term strategies for the sustainability of the institutions we support.
The social footprint of all the organizations supported by the Group has directly impacted more than 175,000 people since 2017.
Our efforts are concentrated in the areas of: Human and Social Development, Civism, Arts and, Culture and Education.
Human & Social Empowerment
Centros Sor
Isolina Ferré
Serving residents of 22 municipalities from 5 locations throughout Puerto Rico, our programs focus on prevention, corrective social services, and human and community development. The centers serve more than 37,000 people directly and impact more than 100,000 yearly.
Civism / Democracy
Agenda Ciudadana
Educating about accountability by the public and private sector, and incentivizing citizens to build an active democracy that can transform society. The organization facilitates dialogue, alliances and the sharing of ideas and proposals to better the quality of life for everyone in Puerto Rico.
Education
Universidad
del Sagrado Corazón
COMMUNICATIONS SCHOOL
Among the leading communication schools on the Island, balancing academic theory with field experience for its graduates. The school operates two radio stations and a virtual TV channel.
Arts / Culture
Museo de Arte
de Ponce
The museum contains one of the most important Pre-Raphaelite collections in the Western hemisphere. The largest art museum in the Caribbean, Museo de Arte de Ponce houses over 4,500 pieces.
THE WONDERS of MUSEO DE ARTE DE PONCE
INVESTMENTS