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BUSINESS, Page 47Business NotesSELLINGYou Pay Nothing Now!
With the Kuwaiti government still disorganized and short of
cash, the anticipated bonanza in postwar recovery contracts for
U.S. firms has proved something of a mirage. But one
enterprising U.S. company has shown how to get business anyway:
Don't wait for the contract -- just start working.
Waste Management, a firm in Oak Brook, Ill., with revenues
last year of $6 billion, beat a number of international rivals
to take on Kuwait's dirty work by simply sending in its own
army of 100 sanitation workers within days of the war's end.
"We just wanted to get started," says the company's Kuwait
manager, Nick Harbert. "If they wanted to pay us, fine. If they
wanted us to leave, that was fine too."
The Kuwaitis have accepted Waste Management's $500,000
bill, and this month awarded the company one of the country's
heftiest contracts so far: $12 million to provide all basic
sanitation services in Kuwait City for a year. Waste Management
sees even greater potential in areas such as environmental
reclamation and oil spills.