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Article: BRAZIL: COMPANY MANAGES A TRUE TOWER OF BABEL.
- Article from:
- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- July 5, 2009
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According to ANBA: Aside from know-how, material, equipment, and machinery, Odebrecht had to bring to Libya an army of workers of 31 different nationalities to carry out the construction that it has been entrusted in the country. There are approximately 5,000 direct jobs and 1,100 indirect ones, according to the company's CEO in Tripoli, Leonardo Villar. From that total, 260 are company employees who have been reassigned from other countries, and who are considered "strategic." According to Villar, the company's policy is to have people from its own ranks in at least half the technical and managerial tasks, so as to "bring in the company's culture." "The ...