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KBR

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Company Snapshot: 

KBR specializes in engineering and construction, and is a major contractor for the US Military. It is a former subsidiary of Halliburton, and is the largest non-union construction company in the United States. KBR is the largest US private employer in Iraq with roughly 20,000 employees and 40,000 subcontractors.

Website: 
http://www.kbr.com/
Corporate accountability
Human rights: 

In 2007 KBR attempted to cover up the drugging and rape of an employee by multiple coworkers. Jamie Leigh Jones alleged that the company locked her in a shipping container and posted a guard over her, where she was left without food or water for 24 hours after the crime was committed. The company misplaced the victim's rape kit after it was given to KBR by army doctors. The victim was refused a criminal trial, and took the suit to civil court, where the company enforced the victim's mandatory arbitration agreement, pushing the trial into private session with a company hired arbitrator.

Financial information
Stock ticker symbol: 
KBR
Total revenue: 
$9,633.0 (Mil)
Fiscal year: 
2006
Net Income: 
$168.0 (Mil)
Fiscal year: 
2006
Additional descriptive data
Link to full list of subsidiaries: 
SEC Form S-1/A EX-21.1 from December 20, 2005
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