Anib, the sector association, is launching a programme to promote the quality of Brazilian biscuits abroad, and also to help companies prepare for the foreign market. Gulfood, in Dubai, should receive the campaign.
Author: Isaura Daniel
Rio de Janeiro should have a meeting about business and tourism between Brazil and Lebanon next Friday (26). The Lebanese minister of Tourism, Fadi Abboud, should participate in the opening.
The organisation will have a stand at the fair to assist Arab importers and companies interested in the market in the Middle East. Last year, the fair received visitors from Sudan and Jordan.
Publishing house Dar Saer Mashrek is releasing the second edition of a travel guide written in Portuguese by Roberto Khatlab. The work shows sites visited by Emperor Peter II and the cities of origin of famous Brazilians.
Congestion in Santos Port also affected Brazilian sales to the Arab world, which dropped 3.3% in March. In the first quarter there was growth, with exports focussed on food and ores.
An exhibition with paintings, documents and personal objects of the Lebanese intellectual will be shown at the Latin American Memorial, starting on May 3rd. The material comes straight from Gibran Museum, in Lebanon.
Artist Suzana Dourado produces decorations and semi-jewels from recycled glass. The items have already been exported to five countries.
The government has repealed the import tax on two classifications of the product. Egypt answers to 28% of what Brazil imports of these items. The measure covers 80,000 tonnes to be purchases from May to July.
The Brazilian physicist received the Zayed Future Energy Prize, granted by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. He should return to the region next year to make his contribution to sustainable city project Masdar.
The exhibition turned to the rice sector should take place from April 16th to the 19th in the city of Pelotas and will have two Arab countries among the buyers: Jordan and Saudi Arabia. They will participate in business roundtables trading 500,000 tonnes of the product.
The chair created by the Brazilian architect, with digital resources, was the symbol of Design Days Dubai, a furniture and collection object fair that took place in the Emirates in March. The item was successful and Requena plans to return to the Arab world for talks and exhibition in galleries.
A meeting at the Arab Brazilian Chamber should show the main investment and trade opportunities with the Arab country. Representatives of the Moroccan Investment Promotion Agency will be in Brazil to talk to local businessmen.
The mayor of São Paulo, Fernando Haddad, called for support from the countries of the region to the candidacy of São Paulo to host the World Expo. He met with Arab ambassadors at the City Hall.
Arab immigrants set them up on arrival and now their sons and grandsons carry on with them. Charitable organizations such as Lar Sírio, Cedro do Líbano, Creche Adélia Curi, and Mão Branca provide care and a better life to children and seniors.

