Company Comil received an order for 514 busses from Qatar. It is the greatest sale made by the company to one client. The vehicles will be delivered in two lots on the months of June and August. This year, the countries in the Middle East and North Africa should answer to 50% of the company’s exports, which are estimated at 1,200 bus bodies against the 799 units exported in 2004.
Author: Mark Ament
Jobi Artezanato, established by entrepreneurs Jocelyne Scoffone and Edla Murad, ships around 1,000 products, among them tables, vases and trinkets covered in mosaics to the United States every two months. From there, the objects are distributed to the Americas, Middle East and Europe. The articles are produced by female artisans from the city of Vitória, capital of the southeastern Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. Both partners decided to establish Jobi so as to bring income to the female popu
O Casulo Feliz (The Happy Cocoon), which started with a wooden distaff and production of six kilograms of thread every month, currently produces 2,000 kilograms a month and employs 140 people, all residents of a poor neighbourhood of the city of Maringá, in the state of Paraná. The company already exports silk thread and finished products, among them carpets and curtains, to Spain, Portugal, Italy and Argentina. The company owner recently travelled to Morocco and offered the products to business
Graduated in mathematics and the production supervisor of a mining company in the city of Cajati, in the Ribeira Valley, in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, José Amado Alves, is after investors to produce the flour. He has already transformed various fruit into flour, among them banana, guava, apple, pineapple, paw-paw and passion fruit. The process consists of dehydrating, drying and grinding the peel or the pulp of the fruit, or both together. The flour is colourful and tast
In an attempt to establish closer ties between the Mercosur and the Andean Community, the Brazilian government has just ratified a free trade agreement. The agreement was signed in October during the Meeting of the Council of Ministers of Latin American Integration Association. There is also the intention of signing a free trade agreement with the Caribbean.
The federal government and some sector organizations are suggesting that Brazilian exporters fix prices in euros. This measure could be an answer to the problem of the weaker dollar against the Brazilian real, as the euro has shown itself less volatile in the medium term. In 2004, for example, those who sold more products in dollars lost 8%. With regard to euro sales, they only lost around 0.51%, according to the secretary general of the CCAB, Michel Alaby.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Minister of Agrarian Development, Miguel Rossetto, participated last week, in the First International Agricultural Forum, 2005, in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. The discussions during the two-day meeting revolved around the role of agriculture in the development of Third World countries and government policies to expand the agricultural and technology
Agência Brasil Brasília – Brazil is the guest of honor at the 14th International Book Fair in Havana, Cuba, opened last Thursday (3) by the Brazilian Minister of Education, Tarso Genro. Among the attractions at the fair, which will run through February 13, the Brazil Space offers visitors 13 lectures, art exhibits and shows, handicrafts,
Agência Brasil Brasília – Brazil is the guest of honor at the 14th International Book Fair in Havana, Cuba, opened last Thursday (3) by the Brazilian Minister of Education, Tarso Genro. Among the attractions at the fair, which will run through February 13, the Brazil Space offers visitors 13 lectures, art exhibits and shows, handicrafts,
With the increase in demand for alternative fuels, the sector is adding up the figures and believes that the country may consolidate itself as the main world supplier. Last year, foreign sales reached 2.4 billion litres, against 1.1 billion in 2003. For the first time the main product in the trade basket was fuel alcohol.
The Brazilian plastics industry spent, in 2004, US$ 643 million with the import of resins, their main raw material, but the Arab country did not participate in the list of suppliers. Egypt, however, exported naphtha for use in the petrochemical industry to Brazil. Sales totalled US$ 8.9 million. The Egyptian diplomatic corps in Brazil are making an effort to improve these figures.
The state is the main producer of maize, wheat and beans, and the second in production of soy, losing only to the midwestern state of Mato Grosso. At the end of last year, farmers from the state of Paraná harvested US$ 26 million tonnes of grain and are awaiting a harvest of 30 million tonnes this year. In 2004, Paraná answered to 16% of the Brazilian trade balance.
During the last edition of the Couromoda, the owner of brand Anna Pedracini, released eight months ago, noticed that sales of Brazilian shoes to the Arab countries had risen significantly. The company already exports to Austria, Germany and the United States and now seeks buyers in the Middle East and North Africa. Anna Pedracini produces 3,000 pairs of shoes a month and opted for tilapia fish leather as it is a different raw material and as the fish is bred in captivity.
