{"id":82260,"date":"2020-02-11T14:29:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.noticel.com\/ahora\/comercio\/economia\/20200211\/pep-boys-compra-a-su-competidor-tecnicentros-mundial\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:01:54","slug":"pep-boys-compra-a-su-competidor-tecnicentros-mundial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/ultima-hora\/20200211\/pep-boys-compra-a-su-competidor-tecnicentros-mundial\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Boys compra a su competidor Tecnicentros Mundial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Tendr\u00e1 seis nuevos locales<\/i><\/p>\n<p>La cadena de servicios automotrices Pep Boys anunci\u00f3 su expansi\u00f3n en Puerto Rico tras la compra de la cadena Tecnicentros Mundial y sus seis locales en la Isla.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed lo anunci\u00f3 Icahn Automotive, empresa que opera Pep Boys, al revelar que los locales de Tecnicentros Mundial en Caguas, San Juan, Carolina, Dorado y Ponce pasar\u00e1n a convertirse en Pep Boys, incluyendo sus empleados, public\u00f3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20200211005805\/en\/Icahn-Automotive-Acquires-Tecnicentros-Mundial\" target=\"_blank\">Business Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;La adquisici\u00f3n de Tecnicentros Mundial nos provee una plataforma fuerte para el crecimiento en Puerto Rico y nos permitir\u00e1 responder al incremento en la demanda de servicios automotrices&#8217;, dijo Brian Kaner, director de la divisi\u00f3n de Operaciones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Le damos la bienvenida a Tecnicentros Mundial a la familia de Pep Boys y nos comprometemos a ayudar en la recuperaci\u00f3n de Puerto Rico&#8217;, agreg\u00f3.<\/p>\n<p>Con la adquisici\u00f3n, el n\u00famero de locales de Pep Boys en la Isla aumenta a 33. Pep Boys tiene presencia en Puerto Rico hace m\u00e1s de 25 a\u00f1os y emplea a m\u00e1s de mil personas.<\/p>\n<p>Por su parte, la vicepresidenta de Tecnicnentros Mundial, Jacklin Tirado, dijo que &#8216;estamos felices de unirnos a Pep Boys, una compa\u00f1\u00eda con un extenso historial de estabilidad. Nuestro fundador, Efra\u00edn Tirado, desarroll\u00f3 a Tecnicentros Mundial como una empresa de fuerte reputaci\u00f3n que ha sido pilar en nuestras comunidades hace m\u00e1s de 30 a\u00f1os y agradecemos el compromiso de Pep Boys con nuestros empleados, clientes y nuestro legado&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>{&#8216;url&#8217;:&#8217;https:\/\/twitter.com\/pepboysauto\/status\/1227296186664652800&#8242;,&#8217;author_name&#8217;:&#8217;Pep Boys&#8217;,&#8217;author_url&#8217;:&#8217;https:\/\/twitter.com\/pepboysauto&#8217;,&#8217;html&#8217;:&#8217;lt;blockquote class=&#8217;twitter-tweet&#8217;gt;lt;p lang=&#8217;en&#8217; dir=&#8217;ltr&#8217;gt;JUST ANNOUNCED: Pep Boys is expanding our footprint in Puerto Rico, a promising market for automotive service, as Icahn Automotive has completed its acquisition of Tecnicentros Mundial, a six-location automotive service chain. More info here: lt;a href=&#8217;https:\/\/t.co\/55UP5neBXx&#8217;gt;https:\/\/t.co\/55UP5neBXxlt;\/agt; lt;a href=&#8217;https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pressrelease?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8217;gt;#pressreleaselt;\/agt;lt;\/pgt;&#8211; Pep Boys (@pepboysauto) lt;a href=&#8217;https:\/\/twitter.com\/pepboysauto\/status\/1227296186664652800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8217;gt;February 11, 2020lt;\/agt;lt;\/blockquotegt;<\/p>\n<p>lt;script async src=&#8217;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&#8217; charset=&#8217;utf-8&#8217;gt;lt;\/scriptgt;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;,&#8217;width&#8217;:550,&#8217;height&#8217;:null,&#8217;type&#8217;:&#8217;rich&#8217;,&#8217;cache_age&#8217;:&#8217;3153600000&#8242;,&#8217;provider_name&#8217;:&#8217;Twitter&#8217;,&#8217;provider_url&#8217;:&#8217;https:\/\/twitter.com&#8217;,&#8217;version&#8217;:&#8217;1.0&#8242;}<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tendr\u00e1 seis nuevos locales La cadena de servicios automotrices Pep Boys anunci\u00f3 su expansi\u00f3n en Puerto Rico tras la compra de la cadena Tecnicentros Mundial y sus seis locales en la Isla. As\u00ed lo anunci\u00f3 Icahn Automotive, empresa que opera Pep Boys, al revelar que los locales de Tecnicentros Mundial en Caguas, San Juan, Carolina, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":422427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comercio","category-economia","category-ultima-hora"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422429,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82260\/revisions\/422429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}