From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil is currently in the 16th place in the ranking of countries with the greatest aerial passenger traffic, according to a report published by the World Trade Organization (WTO) based on 2003. Between 1993 and 2003, the passenger movement in the country rose 49%. If only foreign trips are
Author: Mark Ament
Agência Brasil São Paulo – Industrial production in São Paulo rose 2.95% in May, compared to April. It was up 4.4%, compared to May 2004, and up 4.7% for the year. The numbers are from a survey by the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp). In the Food and Beverages sector,
Three importers from the Emirates and Jordan visited 11 furniture factories in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. They ordered five containers of products, for the value of US$ 50,000. For the next 12 months, at least another US$ 200,000 are expected.
The structure, to be set up in the city of Picos, is going to process 160 tonnes of cashew nuts per month and export 80% of the total. The project is developed by the Sebrae and has as its objective the support of trade of local products.
Piloto, a company from the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo that produces brakes and components for heavy-vehicle clutches, intends to establish direct contacts in the region and make exports regular. The company, established in 1953, has been selling on the foreign market for over 30 years.
The institution is going to open a unit in the United Arab Emirates in the near future. According to the foreign trade director of the Bank of Brazil, José Maria Rabelo, the office, which will operate throughout the Arab world, will help prospect new business for Brazilian companies in the region and will work to attract funds to Brazil.
The high points of A1 Grand Prix will be the great value given to the drivers, as all the cars will be identical, and the dispute between countries, as each one of the 25 teams will represent a country. The Brazilian team has as its main investor football player Ronaldo, from Real Madrid, and twice Formula 1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, who will be the technical director.
A1 Grand Prix, the competition between countries created by Maktoum Hasher Al-Maktoum, will have its first phase in September, in England, and will include a Brazilian team.
Last Monday the company shipped a total of 112 pieces of furniture for hospital rooms, two surgical beds, and three gurneys to the Arab country. Mercedes Imec, a producer of hospital furniture from the city of São Paulo, also sells to Lebanon, Egypt and Morocco, in the region. The four countries answer to 20% of company exports.
Brazil is the seventh largest producer and exporter of honey in the world. This position was reached due to the quality and variety of the honey, mostly wild, and also to the space left open by China, which faced sales restrictions due to the use of pesticides in the production. With the return of the Chinese to the market, however, Brazil must go after new buyers so as to maintain foreign sales.
Agência Brasil Bogotá – Minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, speaking to an audience of some 150 Brazilian and Colombian businessmen, declared that the way to strengthen Mercosur was to invest in South America in order to achieve a balance between exports and imports. Amorim spoke at the II Brazil-Colombia Business Conference. "In this way
A group of 71 small farmers from the city of Três de Maio, in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, are going to harvest their seventh crop of organic products this year. They produce soy, maize, rye, wheat, vegetables, fruit, milk and brown sugar, controlled by Cotrimaio. The cooperative was a pioneer in incentives to organic production in the country and exports to France, Germany and the United States.
