Author: Mark Ament
The company produces laminates that serve as raw material for shoes, accessories, garments, upholstered products and decorations. The colours, textures and prints of the spring/summer collection were created based on elements of the Arab country. Inspiration was from the Red Sea to luxurious Egyptian resorts.
After opening representation offices in North America, Europe and Asia, the São Paulo Sugar Cane Agroindustry Union also intends to seek business opportunities for ethanol on the African continent, where there are some Arab countries interested in the commodity.
Leaders at the Arab Brazilian Chamber and at the Ministry of Agriculture visited yesterday, in Riyadh, the largest supermarket chain in Saudi Arabia, Panda. The company has daring plans for growth and, according to operations manager Cobus Lombard, who met the group, there is interest in buying more food from Brazil.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – To promote the image of Brazilian ethanol abroad, the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) and the São Paulo Sugar Cane Agroindustry Union (Unica) signed today (25) an agreement that forecasts investment of 16.5 million Brazilian reals (US$ 9.7 million) up to the end of 2009. The countries
Agência Brasil* Brasília – The entry of foreign direct investment in the country (funds turned to the productive area of the economy and that generate jobs) registered the largest result for January since the beginning of the Brazilian Central Bank (BC) series, in 1947, reaching US$ 4.814 billion. "It is good quality capital, which comes
The projects to receive investment in the midwestern Brazilian state are turned to family farming and to middle-sized farming. From 2008 to 2010, the Sebrae should invest 12.6 million Brazilian reals (US$ 7.4 million) and its institutional partners should come in with the rest.
Agencia Brasil* Brasília – The Brazilian trade balance registered an US$ 81 million deficit in the fourth week of February (between the 18th and 24th), according to a spokesperson for the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, this was the first negative result since the third week of May 2002 (a deficit of US$
Brazilian companies have closed further deals in the second day of the food sector fair, which is taking place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Nutriza received orders for 300 tonnes of chicken and Serlac closed the sale of 45 tonnes of condensed milk. They participated in the fair as exhibitors in the stand organised by the Arab Brazilian Chamber in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture.
The country in the Middle East has sufficient demand to buy more agricultural products from Brazil, according to leaderships at Dubai Municipality and to members of the board at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the emirate. The possibility of expanding agricultural exports to the region was the theme of the visit of representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil and of the Arab Brazilian Chamber to both sites yesterday.
Leaning about consumer habits. This was the guidance received by the Brazilian businessmen participating in the Gulfood and who went to the talk organised by the Arab Brazilian Chamber and the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday, in Dubai, about how to insert brands into the Middle East.
Magic, an energy drink with ginseng root and guarana, is successful in the Middle East. The company that makes the beverage in Kuwait, Al-Sayer Soft Drinks Factory, imports the concentrate from Sweden and sells the drink in the region. The promotional material shows that the drink is made out of the fruit that is typical of the Amazon.
Thirteen Brazilian shoe sector industries participated in Expo Riva Middle East, a sector fair that took place in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, last week. Deals worth US$ 2.08 million were closed at the fair and another US$ 6.3 million in business is forecasted for the next twelve months.
Café Canecão, one of the companies exhibiting at the stand organised by the Arab Brazilian Chamber and the Ministry of Agriculture, closed deals of US$ 100,000 yesterday, in the first day of the fair. Agro Food has also negotiated a US$ 60,000 coffee export contract. Gulfood, the food sector fair that takes place in Dubai, ends on the 27th.
