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more mouths.”
The vast majority of overall business is done in the Ba-
hamas, though the occasional project or venture has
taken operations to Jamaica, and Mosko said the com-
pany is looking to do some infrastructure work else-
where in the Caribbean region. The Mosko’s United
Construction arm does $100 million in annual reve-
nue, he said, while site development accounts for $70
million, marine construction is between $10 million
and $15 million and concrete is between $4 million
and $8 million.
And while the business is spread across many inter-
ests, its centralized operation pays dividends.
“We were competing for a project and they said ‘Why
should we give it to you?’” Mosko said. “And I told the
guy, ‘If you’ve got a problem, you call me up and you
get an answer. If you deal with (a foreign competitor),
he’s got to go check with someone in England, who’s
got to check with someone in Scotland, and if you’re
lucky in two weeks you might get an answer. You call
me, I speak to my brothers and you’ve got an answer
in five minutes.’”
Close relationships with major investors in the country
have yielded positive results, too.
“It’s not like there’s any one particular driver,” Mosko
said.
“There’s not one dominant business. It’s opportunis-
tic. When work comes for one end of it, we take it on
board. We get as close as we can to the people who
are investing in the country, and we piggyback on the
back of that and pick up as much work as we possibly
can from the relationships with the major developers.
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