INTRODUCTION |
Founded in 1945, the Odebrecht Organization is
active in Engineering & Construction, Chemicals
& Petrochemicals and Infrastructure &
Public Services and participates in Oil &
Gas, Tourism and Pulp Manufacturing ventures.
Odebrecht has over 36,000 members working in South
America, North America, Africa and Europe. Brazil
is its home base.
The ethical and cultural unity of the Organization
operations is ensured by the application of the
Odebrecht Entreoreunarial Technology a set of
principles, concepts and standards developed since
Construtora Norberto Odebrecht, the company that
gave rise to the Organization, was founded in
1945.
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HISTORY |
The first member of the Odebrecht family to settle
in Brazil was Emil Odebrecht. He arrived in 1856
at the height of German immigration to the Itajaí
Valley in the southern state of Santa Catarina.
An engineer educated at the University of Greifswald,
Prussia, he played an active role in the demarcation
of land, surveying and construction of roadways
in southern Brazil. Married to Bertha Bichels,
he had 15 children. Emílio Odebrecht, one
of his grandchildren and the father of Norberto
Odebrecht, helped pioneer the use of reinforced
concrete in Brazil.
In 1918, after studying at the Rio de Janeiro
Polytechnic, Emílio Odebrecht moved to
Recife in Northeastern Brazil. That city was modernizing
and expanding, thanks to the development of the
sugar economy. The following year, he started
his first company in Recife, the Isaac Gondim
e Odebrecht Ltda. construction firm. Then, in
1923, he founded Emílio Odebrecht Cia.,
which built several projects between the two World
Wars in the states of Pernambuco, Alagoas, Ceará
and Bahia. In 1926, he moved to Salvador, Bahia.
When World War II broke out, the supply of construction
materials imported from Europe dwindled rapidly,
sparking a crisis in the construction sector.
Disheartened, Emílio Odebrecht decided
to retire. His son, Norberto Odebrecht, replaced
him at the helm of the firm in the first half
of the 1940`s Corporate Structure.
Odebrecht S.A.
Odebrecht S.A. is the company that represents
and consolidates the Organization. Encompassing
the political-strategic sphere of governance,
it seeks to add quality to the entrepreneurship
of Odebrecht's businesses, foster people's development,
and preserve and develop Organization spirit.
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ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION |
The operations of Odebrecht's Engineering &
Construction subsidiaries are consolidated under
the leading company Construtora Norberto Odebrecht
S.A. and focus on rendering Engineering, Procurement,
Construction and Management (EPCM) services.
Their extensive experience in engineering and
construction includes buildings, thermal and hydroelectric
power plants, nuclear plants, steel mills, naphtha
crackers, roads, railroads, ports and airports,
as well as mining, sanitation and irrigation projects.
They also provide specialized engineering and
construction services for the Oil & Gas sector
by building, adapting and operating oil prospecting
and production equipment, particularly deep-water
production units.
Odebrecht's Engineering & Construction subsidiaries
have been present in other countries in South
America, North America, Africa and Europe for
over 20 years and are Brazil's leading service
exporters.
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CHEMICALS & PETROCHEMICALS |
Introduction
The Group has been present in Chemicals &
Petrochemicals for over 20 years.
In the Chemicals & Petrochemicals area, Odebrecht
and its partner the Mariani Group in 2001 acquired
control of Copene - Petroquímica do Nordeste
S.A., the Camaçari Complex's naphtha cracker.
Subsidiaries in that sector are being consolidated
to create Braskem, making Odebrecht the leading
petrochemical group in Latin America.
Braskem has operating units in the Brazilian states
of Alagoas, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul and São
Paulo. Today, the Odebrecht Group is South America's
leading producer of thermoplastics and Brazil's
top chlor-alkali manufacturer.
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INFRASTRUCTURE & PUBLIC SERVICES |
The Infrastructure & Public Services business
area was created in 1997 with the aim of gathering
under one umbrella all of the Odebrecht Organization
holdings in concession companies active in public
services (roadways), energy and sanitation.
Strictly speaking, however, the Organization
presence in this segments dates back to the 1970s
in Bahia through Sinart, a subsidiary that built
and managed bus terminals in that state.
Odebrecht's participation in concessions was bolstered
in 1989 by the creation of ORL - Operação
de Rodovias Ltda., a road management company that
focused on opportunities arising from the privatization
of Brazilian roadways.
OSI - Odebrecht Serviços de Infra-estrutura
is now a leader in the Brazilian road segment
through its participation in CCR - Companhia de
Concessões Rodoviárias, which manages
and operates 1,200-km of roadways in the states
of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and ParanáIn
partnership with other business conglomerates,
the Odebrecht Organization invests in concession
companies that provide public services in Brazil
(transportation and sanitation) and Portugal (roadways).
Created in 1997 and based in São Paulo,
Odebrecht Serviços de Infra-estrutura
Ltda. (OSI) administers the Odebrecht Organization
investments in public service concession.
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INFRASTRUCTURE & PUBLIC SERVICES Subsidiares
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LEADING COMPANY
OSI - Odebrecht Serviços de Infra-estrutura
Ltda.
Created in 1997 and based in São Paulo,
Odebrecht Serviços de Infra-estrutura Ltda.
coordinates the Odebrecht Organization investments
in public service concessions. In the area of
Brazilian road concessions, OSI manages Odebrecht's
20% share of the affiliate CCR - Companhia de
Concessões Rodoviárias.
OSI also participates directly in Portuguese road
concessions (in partnership with BPC) and a Brazilian
water and sewer concession company.
Odebrecht's Public Service Concession Holdings
THROUGH CCR - COMPANHIA DE CONCESSÕES
RODOVIÁRIAS
NovaDutra - Concessionária da Rodovia Presidente
Dutra S.A.
www.novadutra.com.br
Presidente Dutra Highway (BR-116), 407 km, linking
Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Presidente Dutra Highway (BR-116), 407 km, linking
Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
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CCR's share: 100%
Concession period: 25 years as of March
96
Rodonorte - Concessionária de Rodovias
Integradas S.A.
www.rodonorte.com.br
481-km stretch of routes connecting Curitiba to
Ponta Grossa, Apucarana and other towns and cities
in the state of Paraná.
CCR's share: 74,25%
Concession period: 20 years as of November
97
AutoBAn - Concessionária do Sistema
Anhangüera-Bandeirantes S.A.
www.autoban.com.br
Anhangüera-Bandeirantes System, 238 km, São
Paulo.
CCR's share: 100%
Concession period: 20 years as of May 98
Ponte S.A. - Concessionária das Ponte
Rio-Niterói S.A.
www.ponte.com.br
Road bridge connecting Niterói and Rio
de Janeiro, 13.7 km.
CCR's share: 100%
Concession period: 20 years as of June
98
Via Lagos - Concessionária da Rodovia
dos Lagos S.A.
60-km route between Rio Bonito, Araruama and São
Pedro d'Aldeia, Rio de Janeiro State.
CCR's share: 100%
Concession period: 25 years as of January
97
BPC/ OSI'S DIRECT HOLDINGS
Aenor - Auto-Estradas do Norte S.A (Portugal)
170 km of highways (20 km now operational) in
northern Portugal.
BPC's share: 13,87%
Concession period: 30 years as of July
99
Lusoponte - Concessionária para a Travessia
do Tejo S.A (Portugal)
www.lusoponte.pt
Vasco da Gama (18 km) and 25 de Abril (2.3 km)
bridges, spanning the River Tejo (Tagus) in Lisbon.
BPC's share: 14,84%
Concession period: 33 years as of April
94
AdL - Águas de Limeira S.A (Brazil)
www.aguasdelimeira.com.br
Sanitation company in Limeira, São Paulo.
Provides water and sewer services(over 68,000
connections) to the city's 245,000 residents.
BPC's share: 50%
Concession period: 30 years as of June
95
Lusoscut - Auto-Estrada Costa de Prata S.A.
(Portugal)
101-km highway (40 km operational since 19xx)
in northern Portugal, connecting the cities of
Mira and Vila Nova de Gaia.
BPC's share: 14,23%
Concession period: 30 years as of May 2000
Lusoscut - Beira Litoral e Alta S.A. (Portugal)
170-km highway in northern Portugal (Spanish border).
BPC's share: 14,23%
Concession period: 30 years as of June
95
Improvements and technological advances
Ponte S.A began projects aimed at reinforcing
the metal structure and replacing asphalt pavement
with concrete on a 4-km section of the Rio-Niterói
Bridge.
In São Paulo, AutoBAn - Concessionária
do Sistema Anhangüera-Bandeirantes introduced
technological improvements by launching the operations
of the new Operational Control Center, which monitors
the Anhangüera-Bandeirantes System with the
use of fiber optics (CTFV, Traffic Analyzers and
Environmental Monitoring System) and an automatic
toll collection system (AVI).
Financing and consolidation
In 2000, CCR completed its organization process.
It obtained financing for its operations, consolidated
an alliance among business groups and shareholders,
and defined its strategy.
AutoBAn obtained long-term loans from the IFC/IDB
(USD 161 million) and BNDES (USD 220 million).
The EFC/BNDES hailed NovaDutra for meeting its
obligations regarding the Project Financing for
the venture and authorized payment of shareholders'
dividends
Reducing accidents and injuries
For the five concession companies in which Odebrecht
invests in Brazil, road improvements and safety
measures reduced accidents by 6%, the number of
injured by 9% and the number of deaths by 8% in
2000 compared to 1999.
Client Satisfaction: over 85%
The concession companies' work in 2000 garnered
high Client approval ratings. Ponte S.A, the concession
company that operates the 13.7-km road bridge
linking Niterói and Rio de Janeiro, received
an 86% Client satisfaction rating in a poll conducted
by Enfoque; for NovaDutra, a Marplan survey found
approval ratings of up to 89%; a survey conducted
by Prospect resulted in approval ratings of approximately
88.42% for Rodonorte.
EDUCATION AND CULTURE
Confidence in People and their desire and ability
to develop is the essence of the Odebrecht Organization
Philosophical Concepts.
People's individual development shapes the development
of the Organization, thereby providing a sustainable
basis for competitiveness.
Within the organization, people's development
takes place in a working environment that fosters
learning.
Outside the organization, Odebrecht's commitment
to education is intensified by the Odebrecht Foundation,
the Hospitality Institute and sponsorship of cultural
initiatives.
For the Odebrecht Organization, individual development
essentially occurs on the job.
Therefore, the organization seeks to provide
a favorable learning environment in which the
daily task of serving Clients is transformed into
learning opportunities.
Odebrecht Members learn in two ways: via Education
through Work, as their basic schooling, and Education
for Work, as a supplement.
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ODEBRECHT FOUNDATION |
Created in 1965, the Odebrecht Foundation is
a private, non-profit institution maintained by
the Odebrecht Organization companies.
Its aim is preparing youths for life by encouraging
them to participate actively in their communities
with an autonomous, compassionate and productive
attitude.
To achieve this, the Foundation invests in educational
programs and the improvement of policies and programs
carried out by all sectors of Brazilian society.
In 1990, the Odebrecht Foundation's programs
benefited nearly 500,000 adolescents and 12,000
educators throughout Brazil.
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ODEBRECHT HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE |
The Odebrecht Foundation with the help of 32
governmental and non-governmental organizations
founded the Hospitality Institute in 1997.
Its mission is to promote hospitality education
and culture, improve the tourist sector and increase
its contribution to Brazil's socio-economic development.
Working as an agency that conceives and implements
programs and projects, the Hospitality Institute's
main focuses are as follows:
creating a widespread demand for better quality
services by raising the public's awareness and
mobilizing them in regard to the importance of
giving good service.
increasing the supply of quality services in this
area by educating people who are capable of rendering.
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