Comadri brings together 20 artisans who make babassu nuts into handicraft. After having been traded in several states in the country, the products have started generating interest from importers.
Author: Geovana Pagel
Lecture ‘Foreign trade with the Arab world’ is due Wednesday. Approximately 200 businessmen from the state of Pernambuco should attend the meeting, which will be held at the Fecomércio head office.
Poultry farm Santo Antônio, headquartered in Minas Gerais, has 20 clients in the Emirates, Qatar and Oman. Now the company aims to diversify its portfolio of products sold on the Arab market.
Professional cosmetics developed by the Beox brand, based in São Paulo, will be shipped to Egypt next week. The company is already negotiating with an Egyptian distributor as well.
The emirate’s sovereign fund already has investment in Brazilian real estate, equity and bonds and wants to invest further in the country, says the Chamber’s vice president, Wladimir Freua.
The country was a guest at a conference on the hotel industry in Dubai. On this Tuesday, a delegation of the Chamber and the government will promote a seminar in Abu Dhabi.
Coruripe, based in the state of Alagoas, has exported sugar to the Arab market since 1994. The Emirates, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria are the destinations.
Novo Mel has shipped its second load of organic honey to a supermarket chain in the emirate. The company is negotiating with two more importers in the region.
The goal of brand Beth Bebê, which owns a factory in the interior of the São Paulo state, is to have exports account for 20% of revenues by the end of 2010. Arab countries are on target.
Wafaa Sleiman, president Michel Sleiman’s wife, visited the Cedar of Lebanon Association for Childhood Protection in São Paulo today. The organization serves 2,300 impoverished children and adolescent
Balestro, a maker of lightning rods and transformers, made its first contacts with Arab importers in 2005 and now wants to find a local distributor in order to close deals in the region.
Tunisian artist Jean Paul Ganem is the author of a work of art covering 17,000 square metres that will turn former slum Aldeinha, in São Paulo, into a park and a stage for artistic performances.
Imply, a computing and entertainment systems manufacturing company that already exports to the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Iraq, is assembling a large entertainment centre in Algiers.
The Emirates, Oman, Algeria and Egypt already purchase 30% of exports of the Brazilian hard candy, lollipop and chewing gum manufacturer – which is negotiating with three other Arab countries.
