WC.V.G. Aluminio del Caroní S.A., known as Alcasa, is a state-owned aluminium producer in Venezuela. Founded in 1960, it began operations in 1967. It is part of the Corporación Venezolana de Guayana mining company, and one of the world's largest aluminium producers. In 1999 it had around 9000 employees. In 2005 the BBC reported that Alcasa had instituted a "co-management" initiative, with workers electing managers and participating in the budgeting process, as well as being involved in decisions on technical issues related to production. The experience was evaluated negatively by President Nicolás Maduro in 2013: "The model of worker control failed in Guyana, it never existed; neither control nor worker."
WAvior Regional was a Venezuelan airline that was a subsidiary of Avior Airlines. It began operations in March 2015 with flights from Caracas to Barinas and Valera. Flights to Curaçao commenced in July.
WBanco de Venezuela is an international universal bank based in Caracas. It was the market leader in Venezuela until 2007, when it fell to third place, with an 11.3% market share for deposits; its major competitors are Banesco, Banco Mercantil and BBVA Banco Provincial. As of June 2008, it had 285 branches in Venezuela.
WBanco Nacional de Crédito, commonly abbreviated as BNC, is a Venezuelan commercial bank headquartered in Caracas. It was founded in 1977 in San Antonio del Táchira as Banco Tequendama branch of the Banco Tequendama Colombia.
WBanco Occidental de Descuento is a Venezuelan bank. With around 6.6% of the Venezuelan market, it was Venezuela's fifth-largest bank in 2009.
WBanesco Banco Universal C.A. is a Venezuelan financial institution whose principal branch is located in Caracas. The bank is part of the Asociación Bancaria de Venezuela.
WBBVA Provincial is a financial institution in Venezuela.
WCacique is a Venezuelan brand of rum first marketed in 1959. It is the best-selling rum in Venezuela and a leading exporter to other South American countries and Europe. The Cacique product lines are owned by Diageo, the largest multinational beer, wine and spirits company in the world. The word "cacique" means "chief of the tribe" in Spanish.
WCANTV is the state-run telephone and internet service provider in Venezuela. It was one of the first telephone service enterprises in the country, founded in 1930. The largest telecommunications provider in Venezuela, it was privatized in 1991, and re-nationalized in 2007 by Hugo Chavez.
WCervecería Polar, C.A. is a subsidiary of the Venezuelan Empresas Polar, C.A. conglomerate. It was founded in 1941. The enterprise makes beers and malt beverages.
WChocolates El Rey is a Venezuelan chocolate manufacturer. The company uses only premium-grade, locally grown raw material in the formulation of all its products. El Rey's family-run business is one of oldest chocolate manufacturers in Venezuela.
WChurromania is an international franchise of churro stores founded in Venezuela by Ariel Acosta-Rubio, his wife Maria Alejandra Bravo, and Miguel Bravo in 1997.
WCinex is Venezuela's largest cinema chain, with 27 locations in 12 Venezuelan cities. It was founded in 1998 through the merger of three companies.
WDigitel is a mobile phone company in Venezuela, and the country's first to deploy a GSM network and to establish a per second charging scheme. Early in 2007, Digitel surpassed 3 million subscribers and is currently placed third, behind CANTV's Movilnet and Telefonica's Movistar.
WEmpresas Polar is a Venezuelan corporation that started as a brewery, founded in 1941 by Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Fleury, Rafael Lujan and Karl Eggers in Antímano "La Planta de Antimano", Caracas. It is the largest and best known brewery in Venezuela, but has since long diversified to an array of industries, mostly related to food processing and packaging, also covering markets abroad.
WFrescolita is a Venezuelan cola. It is very similar to red cream sodas found in the United States, with a taste similar to gum. Frescolita is also used to bake cakes in some places in Western Venezuela. It is marketed by Coca-Cola. Its ingredients include carbonated water, sugar, sodium benzoate, citric acid, artificial flavor, artificial color. Besides Venezuela, it is available in stores that specialize in Latin American groceries in the United States and Spain.
WIndustrias Pampero, C.A. is a Venezuelan rum distiller, and a subsidiary of Diageo. It was founded in 1938 and produces a range of rums, including a white rum Pampero Blanco, an aged rum Pampero Especial, and an aged rum Pampero Aniversario.
WThe State Railways Institution is a state-run organization of Venezuela that manages the railway systems of the country. Its headquarters are located in Caracas, Venezuela.
WThe Instituto Postal Telegráfico (IPOSTEL) is a Venezuelan public regulatory organization of the national postal sector, provider of postal, logistic and printing services.
WProducción y Distribución Venezolana de Alimentos (PDVAL) is a nationwide food supply network in Venezuela. It was created by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) in response to the high food demand and presumed stockpiling by private food sectors, creating food shortage. Along with the related Mission Mercal, it was started following the Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003, which saw concerns about corporate control of food distribution.
WCentro Sambil Caracas, located in Caracas, Venezuela, is the sixth largest shopping mall in South America. It was completed in 1998 and has over 500 stores in approximately 3 million square-feet. The mall has five levels: Autopista, Libertador, Acuario, Feria, and Diversión. There are other Sambil malls located in Valencia, Margarita, Maracaibo, San Cristóbal, Barquisimeto, Paraguaná, Santo Domingo, Curaçao and Madrid.
WSíragon, C.A. is a Venezuelan manufacturer and assembler of computer hardware and other electronic products such as digital cameras, tablet computers and LCD televisions. Siragon also designs and manufactures its own RAM and flash memory and printed circuit boards. The company was created in an alliance between Venezuelan and Japanese investors. Its plant is located in the North Industrial Zone of Valencia, Carabobo.
WTeleven is a private Venezuelan national television network headquartered on the Caracas neighborhood of Horizonte. For this reason it is also called 'Canal de Horizonte'. Televen was inaugurated as the TELEVEN Corporation on July 10, 1988 by Omar Camero Zamora and T Radioven, S.A. As an alternative for the two-leading-private TV Networks on Venezuela, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) and Venevision, Televen distanced itself from this trend and made a different oriented programming in some cases the middle classes who do not usually watch TV and it was open and being composed of talk shows, sports, movies, a full range of series, mainly American, and Brazilian, Colombian, Mexican, and U.S. Hispanic telenovelas, and in the 1990s, anime.
WTranscarga International Airways C.A. is a cargo airline based in Caracas, Venezuela. It operates domestic charter cargo services.
WVenezolana - Linea Aérea de Venezuela RAV S.A. is a Venezuelan charter airline headquartered in Maracaibo.
WThe Vergatario is a model of CDMA mobile phone designed by the Venezuelan state owned corporation Vtelca with assistance from the Chinese manufacturer ZTE. The "Vergatario" name was announced by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Vergatario is not one of rebranded ZTE phones because it is exclusively designed in Venezuela.
WVIT, C.A. is a Venezuelan manufacturer of desktop computers and laptops, supported by the Venezuelan government and a Chinese information technology company Inspur. The first computer they produced was called Computador Bolivariano, which came with the Kubuntu Linux operating system.