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image by Zoltan Horvath, 18 January 2014
ETB (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogotá, Bogotá Telecommunications
company) known before as Empresa de Teléfonos de Bogotá (Bogotá Telephone
Company), was originally established in 1884 as CTC (Companía de Teléfonos de
Colombia, Colombian Telephone Company).
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETB_(company)
The flag is the
logo in inverted colors (that is the letters in white on a blue background),
on a horizontal flag.
Image of flag taken from
CM& tv news on March 19, 2013.
For additional information go to: ETB
(official website) http://www.etb.com.co/
Esteban Rivera, 14 January 2014
image by Zoltan Horvath, 27 December 2011
Grupo Exito (Exito in Spanish means "success", and
has a punctuation mark in the "E", thus it sould be
written Éxito; however for commercial reasons to keep all the
letters equal to each other on the signboards and all the
publicity, the accent was stripped from the original word).
Grupo Exito started as Almacenes Exito (Exito stores) in 1922,
when Luis Eduardo Yepes, a native from Medellin opened up a store
in the city of Barranquilla to supply the people with all the
goods needed for the local carnival, called "Carnaval de
Barranquilla" (Barranquilla Carnival). Then later on,
with a much wider offer, he started a series of chains in the
Atlantic Coast of Colombia and named his stores LEY (an
abbreviation of his initials). It is also worth mentioning that
LEY in Spanish means law. Parallel to this, in 1949 Gustavo Toro
Restrepo opened up the first Exito store, owned by Almacenes
EXITO S.A. later on, Almacenes EXITO S.A. establishes a company
called Didetexco S.A. which manufactures most of the garments and
textiles sold in Exito stores.
Also parallel to this in 1905 Spaniard José Carulla Vidal
establishes a store in Bogota called El Escudo Catalán (The
Catalan Shield), later renamed to Carulla.
Later on LEY stores where transformed in 1959 into the holding
CADENALCO (Gran Cadena de Almacenes Colombianos S.A.) which
operated all LEY stores. Parallel to this, in 1967 Jorge and
Margaret Bloch opened up a store named La Huerta (Market Garden)
in Bogota, now called Pomona, and later expanded with several
stores. Also, parallel to this in 1969 Alberto Azout established
a chain store called Vivero in Barranquilla.
In 1974 CADENALCO acquires the chain store Pomona (previosuly
known as Almacenes La Candelaria). In 1992 CADENALCO opened up
SuperLEY stores under a new format, still keeping the old LEY
stores. In 1995 Almacenes EXITO S.A. acquires a percentage in
Venezuelan retail store Cativen which operates Supermercados Cada
and Hipermercados EXITO in Venezuela.
Then in 1999 Casino Groupe, a French retailer store acquires a
percentage in the shares of Almacenes EXITO S.A. , and in turn,
Almacenes EXITO S.A. acquires a percentage of shares in
CADENALCO, starting talks of a future merger, which took place
effectivelly in November 2001.
In 2000, Carulla and Vivero merge into one company called Carulla
Vivero S.A. and then in 2007 Almacenes Exito S.A. acquires
Carulla Vivero S.A., and also Groupe Casino acquires the majority
of shares in the newly created Grupo Exito.
In early 2010, Venezuelan President expropiated several EXITO
stores in Venezuela and opened up for allegedly manipulating
prices in the already turbulent Venezuelan Economy and its
hyperinflation. The stores's names were renamed Hipermercados
Bicentenario, but the EXITO logos are still seen in the stores as
well as the price tags.
Currently Group Exito operates several lines:
- Hypermarkets: EXITO, Vivero hypermarket stores
- Supermarkets: Carulla, Pomona and LEY stores
- Discount stores: Bodega Surtimax stores
- Specialized stores: Home Mart stores
- Local stores: Merquefacil stores.
The flag is a yellow horizontal flag with the logo on the middle.
Sources: <www.almacenesexito.com>
and wikipedia.
E.R., 4 March 2010
Previous flag
image by Eugene Ipavec, 4 March 2010
Exito stores has changed its flag. The current flag is the
new logo in the middle in a horizontal yellow flag.
Image (third flag from left to right):
Picture taken on 24 November 2011
Esteban Rivera, 25 December 2011
image by Zoltan Horvath, 22 June 2014
FEDEGAN (Federación Colombiana de Ganaderos, Colombian Federation of Cattle
raisers) was established on December 13, 1963 during the IX Congreso Nacional de
Ganaderos (IXth National Congress of Cattle raisers).
Source:
http://www.fedegan.org.co/quienes-somos/nuestra-historia
The current flag is a white horizontal flag with the
logo in inverted colors (that is, the logo in green, with green letters) in
the middle. The explanation of the new image is found
here.
The previous logo is seen
here
and the first logo is seen here.
Screenshot from
CM& tv news broadcast of October 2,
2013.
For additional information go to:
FEDEGAN (official website)
Esteban Rivera, 21 June 2014
image by Randy Young, 06 February 2015
Formacol is a plastic packaging Colombian company established in 1964.
Source:
http://www.formacol.com/quienes-somos/
Its flag is a white horizontal flag with the
logo
in the middle. The flag however, only has the logo, without the logo's
inscription below. There's a picture seen
here
(third flag from left to right).
Source:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=814370&page=61
Image of flag. (Picture taken yesterday at their main office).
For additional information go to:
Formacol (official website)
Esteban Rivera, 05 February 2015
Is the attached graphic an accurate representation of the Formacol flag? It
was a little difficult for me to tell from the photograph, but I tried to follow
your description by placing the company's logo on a white field and then erasing
the inscription beneath it.
Randy Young, 06 February 2015
image by Eugene Ipavec, 31 May 2010
On March 1 I found the flag of the Colombian Government company Positiva
Seguros (Positiva Insurance). The flag can be seen in this link:
http://www.cmi.com.co/?nt=48419
(Source: CM& local tv news. The link is dated July 19, 2010) The flag is an
orange horizontal flag with the logo in the middle.
The logo of Positiva seguros can be located here:
http://www.tiqal.com/userfiles/positiva-seguros.jpg (notice that this
version of the logo has the letters in orange, while in the flag, the colors are
inverted, that is, the letters in white.) The explanation of the logo can be
found here:
http://www.positiva.gov.co/Portal_pos/LaCompania/NuestraCompania/NuestraMarca.aspx
The company was created by Decree No. 3147 of 2008 (
http://www.positiva.gov.co/Portal_pos/Documentos/Compania/decreto-3147-de-2008.aspx)
For additional information please go to: Positiva Seguros (official
website).
Esteban Rivera, 30 May 2011
image by Eugene Ipavec, 20 February 2010
Servientrega is a Logistics and Delivery company established
in 1982, currently serving several cities in Colombia, as well as
six countries abroad.
Its flag is a green horizontal flag with the logo on the middle.
Source: <www.servientrega.com.co>
E.R., 20 February 2010
image by
Miles Li, 14 March 2015
Here is flag of SCADTA (Sociedad Colombo Alemana de
Transporte Aéreo, Colombian-German Air Transport Society). Formed in
1919, it is the oldest predecessor of the modern-day Colombian airline
Avianca. Given SCADTA's German ownership, it is little surprise that
that its saltire flag recalls that of Lufthansa and of the pre-WWII
Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei.
Miles Li, 24 January 2014
Having worked in the aviation sector myself, and being an aviation enthusiast
also, I have never seen a flag for this aviation company (only logos mainly on
their airmail and flight schedules, but I have never seen a flag attributed to
this company).
Esteban Rivera, 24 January 2014
Here is a reference:
http://aviacionyturismo.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/tiquete.jpg The light
blue color of the cross is really a green St. Andrew's cross.
A similar flag with St. Andrew's cross had the German-Russian airline "Deruluft"
(DEutsch-RUssische LUFTverkehrsgesellschaft AG). See please:
http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/images/deruluft.gif at
http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/USSRved.htm#deru
Jens Pattke, 24 January 2014
May I controvert your opinion on this, and say that the file you mention is
not a flag, but a logo on some airmail.
Again, if anybody can mention a credible source where we can actually find a
real flag of this company, I look forward to see it.
Esteban Rivera, 24 January 2014
The best image of the flag can be found here:
http://www.sandafayre.com/stockimages/72311851.jpg
Another one (used as the background of a ticket) can be found here:
http://catalog.stamplibrary.org/InmagicGenie/ImageFolder/scadta%20correspondence%20330602.jpg
Of course, not every rectangular emblem is a flag. However since SCADTA had
another logo (a simplified version of which was placed on the saltire), there is
little doubt that this was indeed a flag.
Miles Li, 25 January 2014
If that's a flag, then there are two versions, as one has blue diagonals and
the other green.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 January 2014
Here is yet another image:
http://aviacionyturismo.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/tiquete.jpg%3Fw%3D210
The saltire appears bluish green. Maybe the green shade was just the result of
limitations in printing technology available locally at the time?
Miles Li, 25 January 2014
An airplane model builders wrote me. The last original flag of SCADTA is
found in a glass case at the airport "Ernesto Cortissoz" in Barranquilla. The
German-Colombian airline SCADTA had throughout its history three flags. A 1927
flag was the Lufthansa flag (blue with yellow St-Andrew-cross), instead of the
Lufthansa-crane, the German-Colombian company introduced a SCADTA-condor. Image
unkown. The white-red-green flag is then the second version.
Jens Pattke, 26 January 2014
I am still a bit skeptical about SCADTA having a flag (because no mention of
it has appeared on any written or graphical material). However, I have to rely
on Jens' comments that an airplane modeler told him there's one at the airport.
I would like too see an official response from airport authorities, but that is
going to be a little dificult: the Enersto Cortissoz International Airport was
operated from 1996 until 2011 by a private contractor,
ACSA (Aeropuertos del Caribe S.A.), even having an
official website for the airport, but then
Aerocivil took over management due to bad
performance results.
Now, regarding the different logos of SCADTA, I have seen the following (but
again, not all logos made it to become part of a flag...)
-
http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Avianca (and here
logo in hi res)
-
http://scadta.co/fundacion-de-scadta/ (logo in color, seems to be a
metal pin)
-
http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130120151116/logopedia/images/2/2d/Scadta_1929-1936.png
(logo in red/green scheme, different typography)
-
http://www.filaposta.com/imagenes/jorgesurcl-scadta.prop.jpg (logo in
a newspaper add)
-
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e376/ruben77/Ford/Ford-tri-013.jpg
(picture of a paper scale model kit for a Ford Tri-Motor operated by SCADTA,
displaying the first logo on the fuselage).
And here's another logo, with a more elaborate landscape, in different color
composition:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uLUpU5oXzXE/TrwRCj47MxI/AAAAAAAABhE/j69ceRmvWXA/s1600/Scadta%2B1919.jpg
and
http://www.timetableimages.com/i-lab/av2l1.jpg
Here's a
photograph of what seems to be a meeting of SCADTA personnel (maybe
administrative staff or shareholders, I'm not really sure) .
There seems to be a SCADTA flag in that picture, but since it is in black and
white, I'm not certain of what colors are there.
Source:
http://www.scadta.de/Scadta-Fluggesellschaft/Scadta-Fluggesellschaft/Geschichte.html
During 2012 and the commemoration of the Centennial of aviation in Colombia, a
special gallery was opened in the Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in
Barranquilla, to display the history of SCADTA and
the origins of aviation in Colombia. This
exposition was possible through the
collaboration of many people among them Universities, the city's Mayor and
historians as well. Maybe it is in this
gallery, that Jens came to the fact that there's an actual flag of SCADTA.
Esteban Rivera, 26 January 2014
I do concede that the satire on the SCADTA flag could be green.
Miles Li, 27 January 2014
There's a special group in Facebook (kind of "official") where relatives of
founding members of this airline, as well as former and current pilots,
historians, professors, etc., take part in recovering the history of this
airline.
In this group there's a
picture gallery of the Aviation Hall in the Ernesto Cortissoz Airport in
Barranquilla where the supposed flag is found.
Here are
two pictures that show the flag (if you can't access the file for not being
member of the group, (here's the
image link).
In this picture, one can see the Colombian flag (left) and the SCADTA right
next to a Junkers Ju-52 flown by the airline. (if you can't access the file for
not being member of the group, (here's
the image link). In this picture, encased on a glass there's the flag of SCADTA.
Here's the cockade used in the first years of SCADTA :
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150270804432284&set=o.115986611764504&type=3
(if you can't acces the picture,
here's the image.)
The source for this, is this picture of a Junkers F-13, showing it on the
side (Image.)
Esteban Rivera, 05 February 2014
Possibily erroneous version with blue saltire
image by
Miles Li, 14 March 2015
image by Randy Young, 21 February 2015
In Colombia there's an economic group (holding) called Grupo
de Inversiones Suramericana S.A. (established in 1999 as
Suramericana de Inversiones S.A., INVERSURA) the parent of the
following subholdings:
- Suramericana de Seguros S.A. (<www.suramericana.com>)
first established as Compañía Suramericana de Seguros S.A., in
1944. This company in 1997 split its investments in other related
companies, aside from its core business in the insurance sector,
thus creating Suramericana de Inversiones S. A., SURAMINV, which
in turn became the mother company). Currently the name
Suramericana de Seguros S.A. gathers actually two companies (for
legal government reasons and regulatory rules in the country that
states that a company that sells life and health insurance cannot
be the same company that sells automobile and general insurance
in order not to concentrate too much risk for operational
reasons, thus having actually two companies, but in practice is
just one). These two companies are: Seguros de Vida Suramericana
S.A. and Seguros Generales Suramericana S.A.
- Compañía Suramericana Administradora de Riesgos Profesionales
y Seguros de Vida S.A., SURATEP (<www.suratep.com>)
established in 1996, now called Seguros de Riesgos Profesionales
Suramericana S.A
- Compañía Suramericana Administradora de Servicios de Salud
S.A., and Susalud Medicina Prepapgada, SUSALUD (<www.susalud.com>)
established in 1990, now both merged and called EPS y Medicina
Prepagada Suramericana S.A.
- I.P.S. Punto de Salud S.A., now called Servicios de Salud IPS
Suramericana S.A.
Sources: <www.suramericana.com>,
<www.gruposuramericana.com>.
Grupo Sura has a
new
corporate reorganization and also a variant flag, with colors inverted, as
seen on this
desktop
flag
Sources:
http://www.rpp.com.pe/2012-04-13-peruanos-podran-acceder-a-seguros-de-vida-a-s--10-mensuales-noticia_471642.html
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Sura
Esteban Rivera, 21 February 2015
Previous variant
image contributed by E.R., 23 July 2009
The flag of Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana S.A., INVERSURA, as
well as its subholdings mentioned above, branded for maketing
reasons as SURA is the logo and the "SURA" letters in
white over a blue background, as seen in the pictures (taken May
29, 2009) here,
here,
here
and here.
The internal
company bulletin is showing the new change in logo and flag.
E.R., 23 July 2009
image by Zoltan Horvath, 28 January 2015
"TransMilenio is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that serves
Bogotá, the capital of
Colombia. The system
opened to the public on December 4, 2000 (hence the name Trans
Millenium). The bus fleet, the terminals and all its operation is
managed by the company Trasmilenio S.A."
Sources: http://www.transmilenio.gov.co/es/articulos/historia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransMilenio
The flag is a horizontal red flag with the
logo in
the middle.
Image is screenshot of RCN news channel
broadcast on January 19, 2015.
For additional information go to TransMilenio (official website)
Esteban Rivera, 28 January 2015
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