PETROPERU leads the ranking of hydrocarbon companies in talent retention

The Business Monitor of Corporate Reputation (MERCO), which measures the reputation of the leading companies at the world level, presented its ranking of the companies with the greatest potential to attract and retain talent, highlighting the advantageous position of PETROPERU, because it’s occupying the first place amongst oil companies.

One of the hardest tasks that companies must fulfill, as the markets grow, is retaining and attracting talent and, in that sense, PETROPERU has diversified its strategies to achieve that only the best professionals in the hydrocarbon sector (and others) work with us, in this way empowering the credibility and generating more profitability.

This year, a base of 14,687 polls amongst workers, human resources experts, college students and business schools, as well as the general audience, was taken. In the general listing, the state-run company is located in the 28^th place. amongst leading companies.

MERCO (Business Monitor of Corporate Reputation) is already one of the reference monitors in the world. It’s a reputational evaluation instrument launched in the year 2000, based in a multi-stakeholder methodology made up of five evaluations and 12 sources of information. It has presence in 11 countries: Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brasil, Mexico, Perú, and it is underway in Central America (Costa Rica and Panama).

This positioning in the professional talent field is consistent with the results of the Company in terms of profitability and financial solvency. Thus, in the first quarter of this year, PETROPERU obtained profits for S/ 176  million, more than twice what was achieved by the company in the same period during the last year. In 2015, profits for S/ 503 million were achieved.

It must also be highlighted that PETROPERU has achieved the international investment ranking ranking BBB- by Standard & Poor’s, BBB+ Fitch Ratings and a local score of AA+(pe) by Apoyo & Asociados.