Making a Whopper may be similar around the world, but staffing across borders is no routine task. Burger King, like most multinationals, grapples with relocating managers and their families, language issues, differing expectations on compensation and even questions about which car to assign to a top executive. Lazaro Acosta, Burger King’s director of Human Resources for the Latin America and Caribbean region, shared his experience at WorldCity’s latest HR Connections event in a laughter-filled session that noted Americans’ propensity to focus more on salary and Latins’ tendency to look more… Read More
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WorldCity connects the top executives at South Florida’s multinational companies through six event series, its web site and e-newsletters.
Four event series are for specific executives of the multinational community: the “CEOs” at the multinationals, the Human Resources directors, the Marketing directors and the Government Affairs directors. A fifth is a panel discussions for the multinational community at large and the sixth is a panel discussion for the import-export community.
Representative sampling of the attendees at these event series are included in the media kit. Stories are posted on the website.
WorldCity also has produced a series of TradeNumbers publicatons, including for Miami, Los Angeles, Georgia, Boston, New York, Houston, New Orleans, Seattle, the United States and the Americas. It has also produced TradeNumbers special reports for China, South Korea and Perishables.
Because of the company’s expertise in import-export trade data, WorldCity is frequently quoted in media. (Click on Press Room in the upper left corner of this page.)
For information about marketing your company through WorldCity “Connections” events or annual TradeNumbers publications, please contact:
Ken Roberts, president, 305-441-2244,
You can download our media kit: 2010_WorldCity_Media_Kit.pdf
You can download information about becoming a sponsor of our annual Who’s Here Global Economic Impact Study, which includes an annual Who’s Here celebration for South Florida’s 1,100 multinational companies as well as yearlong research: Who’s Here Global Economic Impact Study
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