Monday, 20 June 2011

Bridgestone Costa Rica Announces Expansion


Bridgestone de Costa Rica (BSCR) – announced the opening in Costa Rica of its Financial Shared Services Centre for Latin America, the Bridgestone Americas Tyre Operations
“Costa Rica is a great place to do business”, said Gary Garfield, CEO and President of Bridgestone Americas. “We have received government support. The human resource is highly trained and motivated, so there are many strategic advantages for investing in the country. Placing our financial services centre here, we will be able to function much more efficiently to all financial requirements with operations throughout Latin America”, he said.
“This structure will improve financial services for business units throughout Latin America”, said Humberto Gomez, President of BATO”. This centre of excellence will help the company grow and strengthen our talented team of collaborators so that can provide world class service to our business in the present and the future.”
“My administration will continue to advance the deepening of the educational processes, development of technical expertise, strengthening human capabilities and technological innovation and mastery of the languages ​of our trading partners, with the aim of meeting the demands of foreign direct investment”, said Chnchilla.