A little-noticed feature of globalisation is that, besides goods and technologies, knowledge and skills are also exchanged and “stored”: Qualifications increase on a global scale, too. The example of Compañía Cervecera de Nicaragua shows that this does not simply apply to emerging nations. With a workforce of roughly 1,500 people, the company is the only industrial brewery in Nicaragua that meets European standards in terms of technology and has highly qualified local employees at its disposal. Otherwise, says Christian Schlotter, Head of ProLeiT Iberia, “this type of rapid and smooth installation of a new control system would not have been possible.”