Importers from the United Arab Emirates are among the foreigners to participate in the Women’s Fashion Meeting, scheduled to begin on the 30th in São Paulo. Turnover should be US$ 7.5 million.
Author: Marina Sarruf
Artisan Maria de Lourdes Amado should present to the Arabs art in golden grass, a natural fibre typical of some Brazilian states. She should show her products at the 2nd Pan-African Cultural Festival.
Starting on Thursday, the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro should receive an exhibition by photographer Hélio Shiino. Admittance is free.
To promote the Brazilian product in organic product supermarkets in the Emirates, company Novo Mel, which is going to start shipping to the country, plans to organise sampling weekends.
Ten Brazilian companies will go to BeautyWorld Middle East fair, which begins today and continues until Tuesday in the Emirates. Most already export to the Arab market and want to expand their sales.
The manager of the medical and hospital equipment division of Kettaneh group, Pierre Ayoub, should return to Lebanon with a good impression of the Brazilian sector and should do business.
Nomas Trading, which distributes medical-hospital equipment, believes that it can expand its imports of Brazilian products by 10% in three years. A company representative is currently in São Paulo.
Brazilian trading company Alliance Commodities, of dairy, received yesterday, in Algiers International Fair, orders for 17 containers of powdered milk and infant formula from four distributors.
The sweet producer from Rio Grande do Sul should send a container of sweets and chewing gum to each of the two Arab countries in June. The contacts were made at Gulfood, a food sector fair in Dubai.
During the event, the Abimo is going to promote business roundtables with 24 importers from 15 countries, among them Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Qatar. Companies from Egypt, in turn, should exhibit.
The Arab country is starting to establish a sports community and wants to become reference in Olympic education. For this, the director of the Doha Olympic Museum, Christian Wacker, is in Brazil.
The secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Michel Alaby, should speak about business opportunities in the sector to businessmen at the fruit sector fair in Rio Grande do Norte on Wednesday.
Artist Susana Barros will exhibit 51 items, including ceramics and vases in the city of Belo Horizonte. The exhibition, wholly inspired by Egyptian culture and Islamic drawings, opens on the 26th.
Al Maya group, from Dubai, closed deals for four containers of rice. Company Al Saeed, from Yemen, is returning with business developed. Around 70 companies visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber stand.

