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Odebrecht
Odebrecht S.A. (), officially known as Novonor, is a Brazilian conglomerate, headquartered in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, consisting of diversified businesses in the fields of engineering, construction, chemicals and petrochemicals. The company was founded in 1944 in Salvador by Norberto Odebrecht, and is active in the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Its leading company is . Odebrecht S.A. is a holding company for Construtora Norberto Odebrecht S.A., the biggest engineering and contracting company in Latin America, and Braskem, the largest petrochemicals producer in Latin America and one of Brazil's five largest private-sector manufacturing companies. Odebrecht controls Braskem, which by revenue is the fourth largest petrochemical company in the Americas and the seventeenth in the world. The name Odebrecht has become shorthand for an unprecedented regional bribery scandal. Between 2001 and 2016, Odebrecht paid US$788 million in bribes across Latin A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odebrecht USA
Odebrecht S.A. (), officially known as Novonor, is a Brazilian conglomerate, headquartered in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, consisting of diversified businesses in the fields of engineering, construction, chemicals and petrochemicals. The company was founded in 1944 in Salvador by Norberto Odebrecht, and is active in the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Its leading company is . Odebrecht S.A. is a holding company for Construtora Norberto Odebrecht S.A., the biggest engineering and contracting company in Latin America, and Braskem, the largest petrochemicals producer in Latin America and one of Brazil's five largest private-sector manufacturing companies. Odebrecht controls Braskem, which by revenue is the fourth largest petrochemical company in the Americas and the seventeenth in the world. The name Odebrecht has become shorthand for an unprecedented regional bribery scandal. Between 2001 and 2016, Odebrecht paid US$788 million in bribes across Latin Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odebrecht São Paulo
Odebrecht S.A. (), officially known as Novonor, is a Brazilian conglomerate (company), conglomerate, headquartered in Salvador, Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, consisting of diversified businesses in the fields of engineering, construction, chemicals and petrochemicals. The company was founded in 1944 in Salvador by Norberto Odebrecht, and is active in the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Its leading company is . Odebrecht S.A. is a holding company for Construtora Norberto Odebrecht S.A., the biggest engineering and contracting company in Latin America, and Braskem, the largest petrochemicals producer in Latin America and one of Brazil's five largest private-sector manufacturing companies. Odebrecht controls Braskem, which by revenue is the fourth largest petrochemical company in the Americas and the seventeenth in the world. The name Odebrecht has become shorthand for an unprecedented regional bribery scandal. Between 2001 and 2016, Odebrecht paid US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odebrecht Agroindustrial
Odebrecht S.A. (), officially known as Novonor, is a Brazilian conglomerate, headquartered in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, consisting of diversified businesses in the fields of engineering, construction, chemicals and petrochemicals. The company was founded in 1944 in Salvador by Norberto Odebrecht, and is active in the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Its leading company is . Odebrecht S.A. is a holding company for Construtora Norberto Odebrecht S.A., the biggest engineering and contracting company in Latin America, and Braskem, the largest petrochemicals producer in Latin America and one of Brazil's five largest private-sector manufacturing companies. Odebrecht controls Braskem, which by revenue is the fourth largest petrochemical company in the Americas and the seventeenth in the world. The name Odebrecht has become shorthand for an unprecedented regional bribery scandal. Between 2001 and 2016, Odebrecht paid US$788 million in bribes across Latin Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Car Wash
Operation Car Wash (, ) was a landmark anti-corruption probe in Brazil.Kurtenbach, S., & Nolte, D. (2017). Latin America's Fight against Corruption: The End of Impunity. GIGA Focus Lateinamerika, (03). Beginning in March 2014 as the investigation of a small car wash in Brasília over money laundering, the proceedings uncovered a massive corruption scheme in the Brazilian federal government, particularly in state-owned enterprises. The probe was conducted through antitrust regulator. Evidence was collected and presented to the court system by a team of federal prosecutors led by Deltan Dallagnol, while the judge in charge of the operation was Sergio Moro. Eventually, other federal prosecutors and judges would go on to oversee related cases under their jurisdictions in various Brazilian states. The operation implicated leading businessmen, federal congressmen, senators, state governors, federal government ministers, and former presidents Collor, Temer and Lula. Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelo Odebrecht
Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht (; born 18 October 1968) is a Brazilian businessman and the former CEO of Odebrecht, a diversified Brazilian Conglomerate. In March 2016, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison for paying more than $30 million in bribes. The jail sentence was reduced to ten years in prison in December 2016 for paying a fine, admitting guilt and providing evidence to authorities. Early life He was born in October 1968, the son of Emílio Odebrecht and Regina Bahia, and the grandson of Norberto Odebrecht, the company's founder. They trace their descent from a family of German immigrants to Brazil in the 1850s. Career After received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Marcelo joined Odebrecht in 1992, and was appointed CEO in 2008. He became vice president of the Brazilian Association of Infra-Structure and Primary Industry (ABDIB) in 2005, and vice president of COINFRA, FIESP in 2004. He is chairman of Odebrecht Óleo E G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norberto Odebrecht
Norberto Odebrecht () (October 9, 1920 – July 19, 2014) was a Brazilian engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of Odebrecht. Early life Odebrecht was born on October 9, 1920, in Recife, Brazil. He was the son of the pioneer and a grandson of , a German geodetical engineer and cartographer, who emigrated to Brazil in 1856. He studied at the Polytechnic School of Bahia. Career Odebrecht founded a construction company from which the Odebrecht Group in Salvador da Bahia was created in 1944. Today, the company has become an international conglomerate and employs more than 167,500 people in over 60 countries. In 1991, he passed the presidency of Odebrecht to his son Emílio Odebrecht, and remained as chairman. Norberto Odebrecht's "thoughts" have been compiled in three volumes distributed to all employees of the group. Philanthropy Odebrecht was the founder of the Brazilian Odebrecht Foundation ( Portuguese: Fundação Odebrecht). Death Odebrecht die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odebrecht Foundation
The Odebrecht Foundation ( Portuguese ''Fundação Odebrecht'') is a private Brazilian institution created in 1965. It was launched by Norberto Odebrecht, a Brazilian engineer and businessman, who in 1944 founded the Odebrecht company, in order to provide company members benefits that the Brazilian Social Security system either did not provide, or only could cover partially. In 1988 the Odebrecht Foundation began focusing on preparing and grooming adolescents for life due to the realization that adolescence is the period when people consolidate the values and ideas that shape their character. By 2000, the Odebrecht Foundation’s work in this area had benefited 500,000 adolescents and 12,000 educators in several Brazilian states. That year, while maintaining its focus on the objectives established in 1988, the Foundation began concentrating its efforts on the Brazilian Northeast – more precisely on areas with low human development indexes that were outside the dynamic hubs of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odebrecht Energia
Odebrecht Energia is a Brazilian power company founded in 2010 by the Brazilian multinational Odebrecht. References Further reading * https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-27/odebrecht-seeks-renewable-energy-partners-as-brazil-funds-dry-up * http://oglobo.globo.com/economia/negocios/santo-antonio-deve-atrair-duas-chinesas-brookfield-20032846 * https://books.google.com/books?id=ebDZDAAAQBAJ External links * Odebrecht Energiaon Bloomberg Bloomberg may refer to: People * Daniel J. Bloomberg (1905–1984), audio engineer * Georgina Bloomberg (born 1983), professional equestrian * Michael Bloomberg (born 1942), American businessman and founder of Bloomberg L.P.; politician a ... Electric power companies of Brazil Odebrecht Companies based in Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian companies established in 2010 Energy companies established in 2010 {{Brazil-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Guidolin
Luciano Nitrini Guidolin (born October 1972) is a Brazilian businessman, the president and CEO of Odebrecht, a diversified Brazilian conglomerate, which is Latin America's largest construction company, since May 2017. Early life Luciano Nitrini Guidolin was born in October 1972. He is a São Paulo native of Italian descent. He has a bachelor's degree in Production Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP) and an MBA from Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma .... Career In May 2017, Guidolin, a "longtime executive", succeeded Newton de Souza as CEO of Odebrecht. References 1972 births Living people Brazilian chief executives Odebrecht people Harvard Business School alumni University of São Paulo alumni [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrobras
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., better known by and Trade name, trading as the portmanteau Petrobras (), is a Brazilian state-owned enterprise, majority state-owned multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The company's name translates to Brazilian Petroleum Corporation — Petrobras. The company was ranked #71 in the 2023 Fortune Global 500, ''Fortune'' Global 500 list. In the 2023 Forbes Global 2000, ''Forbes'' Global 2000, Petrobras was ranked as the 58th-largest public company in the world. History Petrobras was created in 1953 under the Second presidency of Getúlio Vargas, government of Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas with the slogan "The Oil is Ours" (Portuguese: "O petróleo é nosso"). It was given a legal monopoly in Brazil. In 1953, Brazil produced only 2,700 barrels of oil per day. In 1961, the company's REDUC refinery began operations near Rio de Janeiro, and in 1963, its Cenpes research center opened in Rio de Janeiro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foz Do Brasil
Foz do Brasil is a Brazilian waste management company, founded in 2008 and headquartered in Limeira. The company is owned by Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht. The company operates in 150 cities in 18 Brazilian states and has about 9.0 million of customers. The company invests, operates and develops projects in three segments: Water and Sewer - Public sanitation concessions; Industrial Operations - Outsourcing Centers Utilities, and Waste - diagnosis and remediation of contaminated sites, monitoring of surface and groundwater, and disposal end of MSW. The company closed the year 2011 with the supply of 77 million cubic meters of water, with the collection of 72 million m³ of wastewater beyond 1 million tonnes of waste properly for clients. The company also has several projects in partnership with various public and private companies in Brazil as the state Sabesp, Copasa, Cesan and others. In the industrial area, Foz do Brazil provides services to major industries in the sectors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braskem
Braskem S.A is a Brazilian petrochemical company headquartered in São Paulo. The company is the largest petrochemical company in Latin America and has become a major player in the international petrochemical market (8th largest resin producer worldwide). Products Braskem is the Americas’ top thermoplastic resin producer. With 36 industrial plants spread across Brazil, United States, Mexico and Germany, the company produces over 16 million tons of thermoplastic resins and other petrochemicals per year. Braskem is the world’s leading biopolymers producer with its 200,000 tons Green PE plant that produces polyethylene from sugarcane-based ethanol. Basic petrochemicals Braskem controls the three largest petrochemical complexes in Brazil, located in the cities of Camaçari, Bahia, Mauá, São Paulo and Triunfo, Rio Grande do Sul. Besides these three petrochemical complexes, Braskem also controls a complex in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, which is based on gas rather than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
