INTERNATIONAL Brazil: Odgers among £70m Rio 2016 deals for UK firms
3 October 2012
UK-based executive search firm Odgers Berndtson has entered into a partnership to provide executive search services for the Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Wed, 3 Oct 2012
UK-based executive search firm Odgers Berndtson has entered into a partnership to provide executive search services for the Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It is one of 22 British companies to have won a combined total of 36 contracts worth £70m for Brazil’s 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS).Other companies include Blue Cube, which will provide 64,000 seats for a football stadium in Fortaleza, stewarding training provider AKONA, and professional services firms Ernst & Young and PwC.
Prime Minister David Cameron comments: “This summer Britain set a new Olympic benchmark. We delivered London 2012 on time and under budget, and showed the world that Britain has the skills, capacity, creativity and expertise to put on the greatest show on earth.
“With UK companies already working closely with Rio 2016, winning contracts and building business links, we are in an ideal position to boost British business in Brazil from Rio 2016 and beyond.”
There have been 160 Olympic missions to and from Brazil on planning and delivery of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, covering everything from transport to budget monitoring, sustainability to volunteering, says a BIS statement, which claims that “no two adjacent host nations have worked so closely together”.
UK-based executive search firm Odgers Berndtson has entered into a partnership to provide executive search services for the Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It is one of 22 British companies to have won a combined total of 36 contracts worth £70m for Brazil’s 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS).Other companies include Blue Cube, which will provide 64,000 seats for a football stadium in Fortaleza, stewarding training provider AKONA, and professional services firms Ernst & Young and PwC.
Prime Minister David Cameron comments: “This summer Britain set a new Olympic benchmark. We delivered London 2012 on time and under budget, and showed the world that Britain has the skills, capacity, creativity and expertise to put on the greatest show on earth.
“With UK companies already working closely with Rio 2016, winning contracts and building business links, we are in an ideal position to boost British business in Brazil from Rio 2016 and beyond.”
There have been 160 Olympic missions to and from Brazil on planning and delivery of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, covering everything from transport to budget monitoring, sustainability to volunteering, says a BIS statement, which claims that “no two adjacent host nations have worked so closely together”.
