A survey by consultancy firm Euromonitor points out that the industry is growing, and so is coffee consumption. In 2009, Egypt and Saudi Arabia received US$ 120 million investment in new coffee shops.
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Marins Paolillo will open a soy chaff and degummed soybean oil plant in the city of Arinos, in the state of Minas Gerais. It will be ready in 2011 will post US$ 66 million in annual revenues.
Brazilian sales in the first five months of the year grew by 79% in comparison with the same period of last year. In May, exports totalled US$ 158 million.
According to the automaker, the new unit, due to open in Morocco in 2012, will reduce its carbon emissions by 98%. The remaining 2% will be compensated with carbon credits.
The Oil Libya Holding Company wants to buy Shell’s oil distribution activities in 21 African countries. The company is willing to invest US$ 2 billion for the deal to be closed.
The structure is 267 kilometres long and cost 1.28 billion Brazilian reals (US$ 704 million). It will supply the Steel Valley and two thermoelectric plants.
The Moroccan government signed an agreement with Spanish company Ditema for building an industrial park in the country, in the municipality of Settat. Investment will total US$ 120.4 million.
The news story is ‘A new diet for the crop,’ by ANBA journalist Isaura Daniel, is a finalist in the internet category of the Massey Ferguson Journalism Prize. The winners will be announced in August.
The Brazilian athletes to play the Youth Olympic Games, in the second half of August, in Singapore, should acclimatise for the dispute in Dubai, between August 14th and 26th.
Shipments of agricultural products generated US$ 7.2 billion in May. In the accumulated result for the year, foreign sales reached US$ 28 billion, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Sales of Brazilian beef totalled US$ 447 million. Shipments totalled 175,000 tonnes, growth of 11% over May 2009. In the year, exports total almost US$ 2 billion.
Brazilian sales totalled 2.4 million bags in the month. Since the start of the crop year, the country posted US$ 4.5 billion in revenues from shipment of 29.28 million bags.
The coexistence of Arab-Muslim women and Brazilian culture is the subject of a lecture due Monday (7th) at the Art Gallery of the city of São Bernardo do Campo.
Six laboratories of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture are going to receive US$ 25 million in 2010. The labs conduct analyses of products of animal and vegetable origin.
