Companies attending Expodireto Cotrijal are interested in selling to the region. The Arab Chamber is at the Rio Grande do Sul trade expo and is planning joint actions with Não-Me-Toque city hall to boost exports.
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.
The region accounted for 23% of foreign sales by the Brazilian meat company last year, up 21% from 2016, and Minerva reports that consumption there is increasing.
Expodireto Cotrijal opens on Monday in Rio Grande do Sul, featuring goods and services. The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce will give a lecture on trade with the Middle East and North Africa.
Photos taken by Lebanon’s Hassam Ammar depict females, including Brazilian expatriates, in positions of strength and courage. The foreign minister of Brazil will open the showing on March 6.
A group with 213 military personnel is on board of Frigate Independência and is set to arrive in Beirut next Wednesday. They will replace the team currently in the Arab country as part of an United Nations’ peacekeeping mission.
Amro Saad lives in Brasília and launched in Egypt, this month, his second poetry book. The verses, written in Arabic, were inspired by the ‘windows’ from which the author sees and saw the world, in Brazil and in his home country.
Professor from the Maranhão Federal University, Liliane Correa, is in Aswan and will visit the places that the Brazilian emperor visited in his trips to the Arab country in the 1870s. She gave a lecture in the city.
The São Paulo-born Augusto Sabbatini moved to Rabat this year. He will coach the men’s national team, as well as scout new talent and work with local colleagues and teachers.
Sales from Brazil increased in 2017 from 2016, whereas total foreign sales of milk-based products slid. Exports to Saudi Arabia weakened, but Algeria resumed buying Brazilian product.
The organization’s International Business executive, Fernanda Baltazar, visited the country between the end of January and the beginning of February. There’s room for Brazil to supply food products and enter the construction sector.
The mission headed by the Ministry of Agriculture and that includes representatives of companies and sector organizations will arrive in the Arab country on February 15th. Business meetings are scheduled.
CELSE will use the product as fuel for thermoelectric plant. It’s still in construction and will be part of a venture that will also have regasification plants. Contract stipulates for supply to begin in 2020.
The company owns some of Brazil’s best-known coffee brands, like Pilão and Café do Ponto. Its Brazilian unit ships product to ten different countries and is about to start selling to the Arab market.
Entrepreneur Katia Aawar created patchwork purse brand Hands Secrets in the Arab country. Born in Lebanon and raised in Brazil, she has expansion plans for hew newly-established business.
