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MINCIN tenders 133 food-service and 41 service premises in Havana, per Martí Noticias
The tender for 16 facilities belonging to Cimex, part of the military conglomerate GAESA, is part of a larger process run by the Ministry of Domestic Trade under Resolution 40 of 2022, with a 30-day window for applications.
Cimex’s Havana West branch put 16 facilities up for tender, among them Tiendas Panamericanas stores, kiosks and fast-food outlets, as well as the BimBom ice cream factory and the Dola Nelly bakery, in Holguín. Those offers add to a process driven by the Ministry of Domestic Trade (MINCIN) under Resolution 40 of 2022, which covers the leasing of 133 food-service establishments and 41 service outlets in Havana, with a 30-day window to file applications, according to Martí Noticias.
Cimex belongs to GAESA, the business conglomerate of the Armed Forces. Ángel Marcelo Rodríguez Pita, a strategic consultant for mipymes who lives in Spain, told Martí Noticias that he links these moves to a gradual reorganization of the military group’s assets: “GAESA has been gradually dismantled… its assets pass to different ministries and those ministries to different companies. The transfer does not happen directly from the GAESA company to the private sector,” he said, in remarks translated by Yamacoa. Without naming specific beneficiaries, he argued that the process favors intermediaries of those in power.
The consultant raised three questions about the tenders: the verification of where applicants’ capital comes from (“Who are these private operators, where does the original capital come from?”), the viability of businesses that depended on supply chains built on imports, and the protection of state workers under the new management. He said layoffs could occur, though he acknowledged that such an outcome is not yet settled.
The tenders add to other government initiatives for trade, such as the neighborhood markets set up to sell food. Economist Elías Amor questioned their results: “The neighborhood markets do not manage to sell at cheap prices and they have no variety, and they do not make electronic transactions easy,” he told the same outlet, in remarks translated by Yamacoa.
Sources: Martí Noticias
Data updated: 2026-10-23T04:15:00.000Z