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**Being the best in one's field is not enough to work within the Mantel Group.**

It also takes heart, a notion the corporate world has disregarded for too long now, preferring to focus on profit and market share.

We see things in a very different way.

**Everyone at Mantel** is committed to a single common goal: making a difference. **As a responsible company we encourage all our employees to get involved with Global Community Projects.** In this way they can stay in touch with the needs and problems of their fellow citizens, and find answers to these problems. As a company, Mantel facilitates this involvement by providing a wide array of services to its employees, in addition to competitive salaries and the best healthcare benefits on the market, provided by Mantel Financial Solutions, the world's leader in health and life insurance.

**Working at Mantel** is also a chance to get a unique, global, trans-national point of view on the world. Mantel Global Industries is composed of a myriad of entities and has its offices and production units scattered between **170 different countries**, making it a wonderful corporate melting pot. Consequently, we strongly encourage our employees to change workplace locations every four to five years. Why limit yourself to one horizon when the whole world is there for you to discover? **Our head office may be in Geneva, but our heart beats at the same rhythm everywhere else in the world;** Bombay, Moscow, Shanghai, Toulouse, London, The Cape, Sao Paolo or Kinshasa, all these places are just a few of the possible destinations for you to go and make a difference.

To illustrate this difference, we asked several of our employees what they think makes Mantel different, and/or how they make a difference through their daily activity. Here are some answers.

### Valerie Miskaya, ballistic engineer at Mantel Avionics, Moscow, New Republic of Russia

"What I like about working at Mantel is that everyone in the company is driven by passion. We are encouraged to take initiatives; there is a lot of (positive) competition between the teams, but in the end we all win as a company and that really makes things move and improves the world we live in. Mantel supports parents; they take care of my two children during the day, which gives me the opportunity to better focus on the challenges I face at work. When I come back home at night, I know I don't have to worry because Mantel will have watched over my two little angels. This helps me be a better engineer, and a better mother of course! That's the Mantel difference (laughs)."

### Nathan Johnston, small arms and tactics trainer at Mantel Arms, Canberra, Australia (when not travelling around the world):

"I was raised in the bush, I'm a man of the country. My position involves a lot of trips around the world, which is perfect for me; I couldn't have stayed behind a desk seven hours a day all week long (laughs). Mantel Arms gives me the opportunity to travel around the world. I go to remote places whose names I could only read on the map in the days when I was young and dreaming of exploring the world. And believe me, the people in the rest of the world need us to go to them and help them. That's what I do as a trainer for the local police forces in the countries I visit, because everyone on the planet needs and deserves to be kept safe by a proper police. That's the difference I make. That's the Mantel difference."

### Nandji Rafassaji, chemical researcher at Mantel Care, New Dehli, India:

"I wasn't always a doctor at Mantel Care. I was born in the slums of New Delhi, and if it wasn't for the Mantel doctors I don't think I would be here today speaking to you. They saved me, just as they have saved thousands of destitute boys and girls like me. At that time, no-one else cared about us, they were the only ones. Later I was selected for an education program and this is how I managed to learn to read and write. There was a mentoring program for kids like me, which helped me make it to high school and eventually university. All of this was Mantel. I can tell you the difference they make, because I am the result of it.

Of course, helping Mantel to make a greater difference seemed natural to me, so I joined them when I graduated. It is normal for me to try to give back as much as I can from what I received. And believe me, this will keep me busy for a life or two (laughs)."

### Randy Bryste, reporter at Mantel Television Live Network (MTL Network), Houston, USA:

"After 15 years spent in several big news companies I was tired of the old way in which information was treated, how it is dumbed down for the public. "People have the right to know" had become a very relative notion. It was more a sorry excuse for feeding them with commercials between each report. More to it, the system felt broken. There was too much cynicism and not enough purpose. Joining MTL Network totally changed my views. For the first time I found a company with a goal, a vision.

MTL Network is a wide open window on the world. We reporters are really given the means to do our job. Also, as MTL Network is a Mantel subsidiary, we benefit from the Mantel group's other companies. For example, thanks to Mantel Military and its boys, we can go where no other reporter would go, into the most dangerous war zones of the planet. This way, we are able to inform people in the best possible way. And as you know it, freedom of the press and information is what will make people free. Contributing to the spreading of liberty and democracy around the world through real, unfiltered information is how I make a difference. That's the Mantel difference."