A Brazilian delegation of micro and small businesses from Blumenau, in Santa Catarina, visited the sustainable Masdar City, in the Emirates. The group was impressed and should visit the Arab country again in the future.
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.
Market Place platform released guidelines for proposal submissions from African, Latin American and Caribbean countries willing to develop projects with Brazil’s Embrapa. Goal is to develop agriculture in these areas.
Brazilian travel agencies offer New Year’s vacation packages to the Arab world. Dinner in Egypt, Morocco and Emirates are among the attractions.
Clothing brand State One, from Brazil’s Santa Catarina state, took its cue from the luxuriant Arab emirate to design its 2015 high summer collection. The items started hitting the market two weeks ago.
Teacher Magaly Quadros’s volunteer project ‘The Hour of Tale in Dubai’ is designed to introduce the children of Brazilian expatriates in the Emirates to Brazil’s literature, music and games.
Sugar and ethanol producers should keep foreign sales of sugar level in the 2014-2015 crop season. Prices are low, but should rise once global stockpiles have decreased.
The exhibition will show technologies for composites, polyurethanes and engineering plastics from November 11th to 16th in São Paulo. Middle Eastern businessmen attended previous editions and are also expected this year.
The countries are part of E9, a group of nine countries that are home to half the world’s population and over 70% of illiterate adults worldwide. New targets will be proposed at a meeting in November.
The Brazilian secretary for Irrigation, Guilherme Costa, visited a project in Taroudant, in the Arab country. The World Bank promoted the trip and wants to create a platform for debate in the area.
Lynden, owned by businessman Kháled Fayez Mahassen, takes nearly 150 Brazilian tourists to the Arab world per year. The leading destination is Lebanon, with its cultural and historical attractions.
The franchise chain serves stuffed potatoes and will open its first units abroad next year, in the United States. The Arab world is being considered for 2016.
The Rio Grande do Sul state-based Dália Alimentos supplies pork and pork-based products. Although Muslim religion forbids it, the product is consumed by Christians and foreigners in the Arab countries.
Ten Middle Eastern companies have been invited to attend Zero Grau, a shoe an accessories fair due in November in Gramado, in the Brazil’s southernmost state Rio Grande do Sul.
ANBA questioned Brazil’s presidential candidates about their opinions regarding the country’s ties with Arab nations. Read their answers.
