Simone Amaro established Brigadelly, producing brigadeiro sweets at her house in the Emirates. She produces around 2,000 sweets a month and participates in a handcraft fair at Times Square mall.
Author: Isaura Daniel
Isaura Daniel
A journalist with a degree from Unisinos and experience in economy and finance, she has been responsible for international coverages and amassed eight journalism prizes.
Companies in the construction, transport, agribusiness and infrastructure sectors should also be represented in the business forum at the Summit of South American-Arab Countries, in Peru.
Meeting between Arab and South American leaders, to take place in October, in Peru, should have minutes decided during the UN General Assembly. Preliminary agenda includes tourism and transportation.
Sales to the region were US$ 9.3 billion in the accumulated result for this year up to August, as against US$ 9.6 billion in the same months in 2011. Sugar and iron ore boosted the performance.
Around 560 textile companies based in the city have undergone training and many are already exporting. Maringá and its vicinities comprise a hub which manufactures 7 million clothing items each month.
Specialists believe the commodity’s prices should remain stable, with slight expansion in the short and medium run. The product is among the main items in the Brazilian trade basket with the Arabs.
The company produces leather items and exports practically the entire production. Articles go to the United States, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Turkey and India. The target is to reach the Arabs.
Among the 100 products to have greater import tax for entry into Brazil, 24 are in the trade basket with the Arabs. Glass plates and polyethylene are the main ones.
The Arab country imported 139,000 pairs from the Brazilian city in the first half of this year. Sales there grew 19% in the period, while exports as a whole dropped 18%.
Sebrae agency is promoting a meeting between local micro and small businesses and importers in Salvador, Bahia. The 100-some businessmen who have registered thus far include an Arab distributor.
The state increased production from 12,000 tonnes in the early 1990s to over one million tonnes. The arrival of new entrepreneurs, development of technology and a promising market helped.
The expansion took place in the first months of this year. The Jordan Tourism Board promoted an event with travel operators on Thursday, in São Paulo, to promote the country as a destination.
An initiative in Ceará offers tourists routes to learn about the fauna, flora and the life of residents in the Caatinga. The biomes only exist in Brazil and have species that are only seen there.
The bed, bath and linen manufacturing company has exported to Saudi Arabia, Emirates and Kuwait but not this year, and is interested in selling more to the region.
