Elegance, a Brazilian maker of lingerie, already exports 30% of its annual produce of one million units and plans to double these figures over the next five years.
Author: Geovana Pagel
Textile mill Razão Social, based in the city of Petrópolis, already has its own store and exports organic cotton clothing, PET fabric and bamboo fibre to France. The aim is to reach new destinations.
Poet Michel Sleiman, a Professor in Arabic language and literature at the University of São Paulo, is going to promote a Diwan of contemporary poetry with Arab dance and music interventions.
Up to the end of 2008, the Brazilian lingerie factory should open seven franchises in Portugal. The brand already exports to countries in Latin America, the European Union and the Middle East.
A Brazilian inventor has established an innovative solution for public lighting that economises energy, may use solar energy, has received awards and should soon be exported to the Emirates.
Arab marquetry inspired the colours and forms of the checkers of the summer 2009 collection by stylist Faissal Makhoul. He is a son of Syrian immigrants with a strong tradition in the textile sector.
In the second half of 2008, the first 20 kilograms should be shipped to the United States. This initial shipment should capacitate brand Quilombola’s to enter markets like Dubai, in the Emirates.
Pet Passion specialises in perfumes for dogs and cats. The brand, which is already sold in nine Brazilian states, is now preparing a strategy to conquer its first foreign customers.
The trio has always been an inspiration to poet and journalist Jorge Tufic, descendent of a family of Lebanese merchants that set up in the state of Acre in the beginning of the 1920s.
Clothing and accessories by Turma da Mel, which owns a factory in the city of Muriaé, will soon be available from a multi-brand store in Australia. In Brazil, the brand owns seven exclusive stores.
The label should ensure the first foreign sale by a group of small farmers in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Norte (N Brazil). Ten families are in charge of planting in a 50-hectare area.
Garments developed by Brazilian stylist Walter Rodrigues are exported to the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Last year, he participated in Motexha, a fair turned to the fashion sector, which took place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. In 2007, Walter intends to return to exhibiting his creations in the Arab world.
Clothes and garments for babies made by producer Torcida Baby – Baby Fan, from the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, with the colours and logos of Brazilian football teams, may reach the market in the United Arab Emirates this year. The company was invited to exhibit its products in the office set up by the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex), in Dubai. The company is licensed by 17 of the main teams in the country and already exports to Germany, France and Italy.
The products made in the city of Caicó, in the region of Seridó, a semiarid region that covers part of the northeastern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba, will be shipped to Paris in the coming days. The first export of the local association of embroiderers was closed through the Bank of Brazil International Trade Bureau operation.
